2892 occurrences in 13 translations

'Against' in the Bible

For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

Nor come into a gate of My people in a day of their calamity, Nor look, even thou, on its misfortune in a day of its calamity, Nor send forth against its force in a day of its calamity,

For the Day of the Lord is near,against all the nations.As you have done, so it will be done to you;what you deserve will return on your own head.

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

So they said to him, “What should we do to you to calm this sea that’s against us?” For the sea was getting worse and worse.

He answered them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea so it may quiet down for you, for I know that I’m to blame for this violent storm that is against you.”

Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.

Who knows, God may turn [in compassion] and relent and withdraw His burning anger (judgment) so that we will not perish.”

He prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? That is why I ran to Tarshish, because I knew that You are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and great in lovingkindness, and [when sinners turn to You] You revoke the [sentence of] disaster [against them].

Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

Indeed, the residents of Maroth hope for something good to happen, though the Lord has sent disaster against the city of Jerusalem.

I will again bring a conqueroragainst you who live in Mareshah.The nobility of Israel will come to Adullam.

Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.

In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

but you rise up as an enemy against my people. You steal a robe from a friend, from those who pass by peacefully as if returning from a war.

Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

They will shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword,the land of Nimrod with a drawn blade.So He will rescue us from Assyriawhen it invades our land,when it marches against our territory.

Your hand will be lifted up against your adversaries,and all your enemies will be destroyed.

I will take vengeance in anger and wrathagainst the nations that have not obeyed Me.

Listen to the Lord’s lawsuit,you mountains and enduring foundations of the earth,because the Lord has a case against His people,and He will argue it against Israel.

O my people, what have I done unto thee? and wherein have I wearied thee? testify against me.

Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.

I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

It shall be a day for building your walls,On that day the boundary [of Israel] shall be [greatly] extended.

The oracle against Nineveh; the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:

The Lord is a jealous and avenging God;the Lord takes vengeanceand is fierce in wrath.The Lord takes vengeance against His foes;He is furious with His enemies.

He is pushing against a sea, and drieth it up, Yea, all the floods He hath made dry, Languishing are Bashan and Carmel, Yea, the flower of Lebanon is languishing.

But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the LORD, a wicked counseller.

This is what the Lord has said: The days of my cause against you are ended; they are cut off and past. Though I have sent trouble on you, you will no longer be troubled.

The Lord has issued a decree against you: "Your dynasty will come to an end. I will destroy the idols and images in the temples of your gods. I will desecrate your grave -- because you are accursed!"

Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news [telling of Assyria’s destruction],Who announces peace and prosperity!Celebrate your feasts, O Judah;Perform your vows.For the wicked one [the king of Assyria] will never again pass through you;He is completely cut off.

One who scatters is coming up against you.Man the fortifications!Watch the road!Brace yourself!Summon all your strength!

The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.

Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you.

Why do You make men like the fish of the sea,Like reptiles and creeping things that have no ruler [and are helpless against their enemies]?

On my charge I stand, and I station myself on a bulwark, and I watch to see what He doth speak against me, and what I do reply to my reproof.

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?

Since you have plundered many nations,all the peoples who remain will plunder you—because of human bloodshedand violence against lands, cities,and all who live in them.

Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.

“For the stone will cry out from the wall [to accuse you—built in sin!]And the rafter will answer it out of the woodwork.

You are filled with dishonor instead of glory. So go ahead, drink and be naked! The LORD will turn against you, and utter disgrace will debase your reputation.

For your violence against Lebanonwill overwhelm you;the destruction of animals will terrify youbecause of your human bloodshed and violenceagainst lands, cities, and all who live in them.

Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?

I heard, and I trembled within;my lips quivered at the sound.Rottenness entered my bones;I trembled where I stood.Now I must quietly wait for the day of distressto come against the people invading us.

I will stretch out My hand against Judahand against all the residents of Jerusalem.I will cut off every vestige of Baalfrom this place,the names of the pagan priestsalong with the priests;

A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.

And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.

Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

Fearful is Jehovah against them, For He made bare all gods of the land, And bow themselves to Him, each from his place, Do all islanders of the nations.

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.

The Lord has taken away His judgments against you,He has cleared away your enemies.The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst;You will fear disaster no more.

I will gather those of you grieving on account of the feast; they were raising against her a reproach.

Lo, one doth carry holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and he hath come with his skirt against the bread, or against the pottage, or against the wine, or against the oil, or against any food -- is it holy?' And the priests answer and say, 'No.'

And Haggai saith, 'If the unclean of body doth come against any of these, is it unclean?' And the priests answer and say, 'It is unclean.'

Then the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

And with great wrath I am wroth against the nations who are at ease, For I was a little wroth, and they assisted -- for evil.

I asked, “What are they coming to do?”He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so no one could raise his head. These craftsmen have come to terrify them, to cut off the horns of the nations that raised their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

For the Lord of Hosts says this: “He has sent Me for His glory against the nations who are plundering you, for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of His eye.

I will move against them with My power, and they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the Lord of Hosts has sent Me.

And he let me see Joshua, the high priest, in his place before the angel of the Lord, and the Satan at his right hand ready to take up a cause against him.

And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary: 'Jehovah doth push against thee, O Adversary, Yea, push against thee doth Jehovah, Who is fixing on Jerusalem, Is not this a brand delivered from fire?'

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely mine], and I am jealous for her with great wrath [against her enemies].’

For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.

An OracleThe word of the Lordis against the land of Hadrach,and Damascus is its resting place—for the eyes of menand all the tribes of Israelare on the Lord—

and also against Hamath, which borders it,as well as Tyre and Sidon,though they are very shrewd.

I will set up camp at My house against an army,against those who march back and forth,and no oppressor will march against them again,for now I have seen with My own eyes.

When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.

Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the LORD of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

In that day,” declares the Lord, “I will strike every horse with panic and his rider with madness; but I will open My eyes and watch over the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the [opposing] nations with blindness.

The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

And even Judah will be fighting against Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about will be massed together, a great store of gold and silver and clothing.

And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
ὑποστρέφω 
Hupostrepho 
Usage: 31

מל מואל מול מוּל 
Muwl 
Usage: 35

ἀναγεννάω 
Anagennao 
Usage: 2

ἀναζάω 
Anazao 
Usage: 3

ἀνάστασις 
Anastasis 
Usage: 34

ἀνίστημι 
Anistemi 
arise , rise , rise up , rise again , raise up , stand up , raise up again ,
Usage: 86

ἀνταποκρίνομαι 
Antapokrinomai 
Usage: 2

ἀπαγγέλλω 
Apaggello 
Usage: 40

ἀποστρέφω 
Apostrepho 
Usage: 8

δεύτερος 
Deuteros 
Usage: 36

ἐγείρω 
Egeiro 
rise , raise , arise , raise up , rise up , rise again , raise again ,
Usage: 101

κατακαυχάομαι 
Katakauchaomai 
Usage: 4

στρέφω 
Strepho 
Usage: 15

אחרנּית 
'achoranniyth 
Usage: 7

אצל 
'etsel 
by , beside , by ... , near , at , with ... , from ... , against , close , to , toward , unto , with
Usage: 61

את 
'eth 
against, with, in, him, me, upon
Usage: 994

בּנה 
Banah 
Usage: 376

גּאלּה 
G@ullah 
Usage: 14

גּם 
Gam 
also , as , even , again , and ,
Usage: 761

הד 
hed 
Usage: 1

הוּך 
Huwk (Aramaic) 
go up , came , brought again , go
Usage: 4

הוּם 
Huwm 
Usage: 6

הרה 
Harah 
Usage: 45

חלף 
Chalaph 
change , pass , renew , strike through , grow up , abolish , sprout again , alter , pass away , cut off , go on , pass on , over
Usage: 28

יסף 
Yacaph 
Usage: 208

נגד 
Neged 
Usage: 151

נכח 
Nekach 
Usage: 1

נכח 
Nokach 
against , before , directly , for , on , over
Usage: 24

עבר 
`eber 
Usage: 90

עד עוד 
`owd 
Usage: 483

על 
`al (Aramaic) 
upon , over , unto , against , concerning , in , for , unto me , about , in him ,
Usage: 102

עמּד 
`immad 
with me, by me, upon me, mine, against me
Usage: 24

עמּה 
`ummah 
Usage: 32

פּנים 
Paniym 
before , face , presence , because , sight , countenance , from , person , upon , of , ...me , against , ...him , open , for , toward ,
Usage: 2119

צד 
Tsad (Aramaic) 
Usage: 2

קבל קבל 
Q@bel (Aramaic) 
Usage: 29

קוּם 
Quwm 
Usage: 629

קראה 
Qir'ah 
Usage: 99

שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

שׁלם 
Shalam 
Usage: 116

שׁנה 
Shanah 
Usage: 22

שׁני 
Sheniy 
Usage: 156

שׁקק 
Shaqaq 
Usage: 6

תּנינוּת 
Tinyanuwth (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

ἄκων 
Akon 
against will
Usage: 1

ἀνακάμπτω 
Anakampto 
Usage: 3

ἀνάμνησις 
Anamnesis 
Usage: 1

ἀναντίῤῥητος 
Anantirrhetos 
can not be spoken against
Usage: 1

ἀναπέμπω 
Anapempo 
Usage: 4

ἀνοικοδομέω 
Anoikodomeo 
Usage: 2

ἀνταγωνίζομαι 
Antagonizomai 
Usage: 1

ἀνταποδίδωμι 
Antapodidomi 
Usage: 5

ἀντέπω 
Antepo 
Usage: 1

ἀντικαλέω 
Antikaleo 
Usage: 0

ἀντικρύ 
Antikru 
Usage: 1

ἀντίλεγω 
Antilego 
Usage: 10

ἀντιλοιδορέω 
Antiloidoreo 
Usage: 1

ἀντιμετρέω 
Antimetreo 
Usage: 0

ἀντιπέραν 
Antiperan 
Usage: 1

ἀντιστρατεύομαι 
Antistrateuomai 
Usage: 1

ἄνωθεν 
Anothen 
from above , top , again , from the first , from the beginning , not tr
Usage: 10

ἀπαιτέω 
Apaiteo 
Usage: 0

ἀπελπίζω 
Apelpizo 
Usage: 0

ἀπέναντι 
Apenanti 
over against , before , in the presence of , contrary
Usage: 5

ἀποκαθίστημι 
Apokathistemi 
Usage: 6

ἀπολαμβάνω 
Apolambano 
Usage: 7

ἀφρός 
Aphros 
Usage: 1

δίς 
Dis 
Usage: 4

ἔγκλημα 
Egklema 
Usage: 2

εἰς 
Eis 
into , to , unto , for , in , on , toward , against ,
Usage: 1267

ἐμβριμάομαι 
Embrimaomai 
Usage: 5

ἐμμαίνομαι 
Emmainomai 
Usage: 1

ἔμπροσθεν 
Emprosthen 
before , in sight , of , against , in the sight of , in the presence of , at
Usage: 27

ἐναντίος 
Enantios 
Usage: 8

ἐπανέρχομαι 
Epanerchomai 
Usage: 0

ἐπανίσταμαι 
Epanistamai 
Usage: 0

ἐπιστρέφω 
Epistrepho 
Usage: 29

ἐπιφέρω 
Epiphero 
Usage: 5

ἐπιφωνέω 
Epiphoneo 
Usage: 3

θεομαχέω 
theomacheo 
Usage: 1

κατά 
Kata 
according to , after , against , in , by , daily , as ,
Usage: 428

καταλαλέω 
Katalaleo 
Usage: 5

καταμαρτυρέω 
Katamartureo 
Usage: 4

καταστρηνιάω 
Katastreniao 
Usage: 1

κατέναντι 
Katenanti 
Usage: 3

κατεφίστημι 
Katephistemi 
Usage: 1

κατισχύω 
Katischuo 
Usage: 1

μετά 
meta 
with , after , among , hereafter , afterward , against , not tr ,
Usage: 346

πάλιν 
Palin 
Usage: 120

πέμπω 
Pempo 
Usage: 39

πρός 
Pros 
unto , to , with , for , against , among , at , not tr , , vr to
Usage: 412

προσρήγνυμι 
Prosregnumi 
Usage: 0

προστίθημι 
Prostithemi 
Usage: 11

συνελαύνω 
sunelauno 
Usage: 1

φλυαρέω 
Phluareo 
Usage: 1

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