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Baby Sign Dictionary

Please use our baby sign dictionary to help your family memorize scripture!  Gestures, or motor actions, that accompany speech have been scientifically proven to improve memory-the enactment effect.  Adding sign language to your Bible verse learning is guaranteed to help you memorize it more quickly and remember for longer!  (Click here to find out how music will also help you memorize.)

 

The majority of these signs are legitimate American Sign Language. However some of them are simplified or modified for younger children.  Modified signs will be marked with an  * To find the actual sign, go here.

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admirable

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Hands on heart
and belly move
forward.

confess

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celebrate

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Two fists make
small circles

cleanse

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Cross arms.
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correcting*

cross*

death

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Move hand
towards chin.

deceive

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don't

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equipped

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example

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Press two hands up.
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Rub hands together
like you are
washing them.
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excellent

forgive*

free

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God

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Reach hand up,
toward God.

He (God)

heart*

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hero*

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hill

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Lean forward.
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Peace sign points forward.

Jesus

lean*

look (down)

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Lord

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love

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lovely

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me (us)

mountain*

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noble

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peace*

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Two sideways thumbs touch together.
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perseverance

praise(worthy)

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Two flat hands
together.
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pray

purity

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race

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rejoice (joy)

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Slide top flat hand across bottom flat hand.

righteous(ness)

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run*

say/speech

scripture*

Sit down.
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shake

shout*

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sin (unrighteousness)

sit*

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soul*

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straight*

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strength*

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Two flat hands move up next to face.

submit

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surround

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teach(ing)

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think

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throw

true

trust*

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then point up.

understand(ing)

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ways*

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Slide hands

sideways and back.

work

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you

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young

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