70 occurrences

'Early' in the Bible

and said, “My lords, turn aside to your servant’s house, wash your feet, and spend the night. Then you can get up early and go on your way.”“No,” they said. “We would rather spend the night in the square.”

Early in the morning Abimelech got up, called all his servants together, and personally told them all these things, and the men were terrified.

Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba.

So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. He split wood for a burnt offering and set out to go to the place God had told him about.

In the early evening Isaac went out to walk in the field, and looking up he saw camels coming.

They got up early in the morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

Laban got up early in the morning, kissed his grandchildren and daughters, and blessed them. Then Laban left to return home.

The Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh when you see him going out to the water. Tell him: This is what Yahweh says: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh. Tell him: This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews says: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. He rose early the next morning and set up an altar and 12 pillars for the 12 tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain.

Moses cut two stone tablets like the first ones. He got up early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hand, he climbed Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him.

They got up early the next morning and went up the ridge of the hill country, saying, “Let’s go to the place the Lord promised, for we were wrong.”

I will provide rain for your land in the proper time, the autumn and spring rains, and you will harvest your grain, new wine, and oil.

Joshua started early the next morning and left the Acacia Grove with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan and stayed there before crossing.

Joshua got up early the next morning. The priests took the ark of the Lord,

Early on the seventh day, they started at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same way. That was the only day they marched around the city seven times.

Joshua got up early the next morning. He had Israel come forward tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was selected.

Joshua started early the next morning and mobilized them. Then he and the elders of Israel led the troops up to Ai.

When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, the men of the city hurried and went out early in the morning so that he and all his people could engage Israel in battle at a suitable place facing the Arabah. But he did not know there was an ambush waiting for him behind the city.

And that is what happened. When he got up early in the morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung dew out of it, filling a bowl with water.

Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and everyone who was with him, got up early and camped beside the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them, below the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

Then get up early, and at sunrise charge the city. When he and the people who are with him come out against you, do to him whatever you can.”

On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning and prepared to go, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Have something to eat to keep up your strength and then you can go.”

He got up early in the morning of the fifth day to leave, but the girl’s father said to him, “Please keep up your strength.” So they waited until late afternoon and the two of them ate.

The man got up to go with his concubine and his servant, when his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look, night is coming. Please spend the night. See, the day is almost over. Spend the night here, enjoy yourself, then you can get up early tomorrow for your journey and go home.”

Early that morning, the woman made her way back, and as it was getting light, she collapsed at the doorway of the man’s house where her master was.

The next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.

She asked, ‘Will you let me gather fallen grain among the bundles behind the harvesters?’ She came and has remained from early morning until now, except that she rested a little in the shelter.”

The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the Lord. Afterward, they returned home to Ramah. Then Elkanah was intimate with his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her.

When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.

But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. This time, both Dagon’s head and the palms of his hands were broken off and lying on the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso remained.

They got up early, and just before dawn, Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get up, and I’ll send you on your way!” Saul got up, and both he and Samuel went outside.

Early in the morning Samuel got up to confront Saul, but it was reported to Samuel, “Saul went to Carmel where he set up a monument for himself. Then he turned around and went down to Gilgal.”

So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with someone to keep it, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him.He arrived at the perimeter of the camp as the army was marching out to its battle formation shouting their battle cry.

So get up early in the morning, you and your masters’ servants who came with you. When you’ve all gotten up early, go as soon as it’s light.”

So David and his men got up early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for settlement, Absalom called out to him and asked, “What city are you from?” If he replied, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,”

When they got up early in the morning, the sun was shining on the water, and the Moabites saw that the water across from them was red like blood.

When the servant of the man of God got up early and went out, he discovered an army with horses and chariots surrounding the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do?”

In the morning they got up early and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa. As they were about to go out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem. Believe in Yahweh your God, and you will be established; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”

King Hezekiah got up early, gathered the city officials, and went to the Lord’s temple.

Whenever a round of banqueting was over, Job would send for his children and purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought: Perhaps my children have sinned, having cursed God in their hearts. This was Job’s regular practice.

If one blesses his neighborwith a loud voice early in the morning,it will be counted as a curse to him.

Let’s go early to the vineyards;let’s see if the vine has budded,if the blossom has opened,if the pomegranates are in bloom.There I will give you my love.

They have not said to themselves,‘Let’s fear the Lord our God,who gives the rain, both early and late, in its season,who guarantees to us the fixed weeks of the harvest.’

One basket contained very good figs, like early figs, but the other basket contained very bad figs, so bad they were inedible.

What am I going to do with you, Ephraim?What am I going to do with you, Judah?Your loyalty is like the morning mistand like the early dew that vanishes.

Therefore, they will be like the morning mist,like the early dew that vanishes,like chaff blown from a threshing floor,or like smoke from a window.

How sad for me!For I am like one who—when the summer fruit has been gatheredafter the gleaning of the grape harvest—finds no grape cluster to eat,no early fig, which I crave.

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.

Early in the morning, as He was returning to the city, He was hungry.

Early in the morning, as they were passing by, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots up.

Therefore be alert, since you don’t know when the master of the house is coming—whether in the evening or at midnight or at the crowing of the rooster or early in the morning.

Very early in the morning, on the first day of the week, they went to the tomb at sunrise.

Then all the people would come early in the morning to hear Him in the temple complex.

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared.

Moreover, some women from our group astounded us. They arrived early at the tomb,

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor’s headquarters. It was early morning. They did not enter the headquarters themselves; otherwise they would be defiled and unable to eat the Passover.

On the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark. She saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them: “Brothers, you are aware that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the gospel message and believe.

Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us and brought us to Mnason, a Cypriot and an early disciple, with whom we were to stay.

And you Philippians know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἀτενίζω 
Atenizo 
Usage: 14

אזן 
'azan 
give ear , hearken , hear , perceived by the ear
Usage: 42

כּרמל 
Karmel 
Usage: 14

שׁבּלת שׁבּל 
Shibbol 
Usage: 19

πρωΐ́ 
Proi 
in the morning , early in the morning , early , morning
Usage: 7

στάχυς 
Stachus 
ear of corn , ear
Usage: 3

H24
אביב 
'abiyb 
Abib , in the ear , green ears of corn
Usage: 8

אדמה 
'adamah 
Usage: 225

אזן 
'ozen 
Usage: 187

ארע 
'ara` (Aramaic) 
Usage: 21

ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

ארק 
'araq (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

בּקר 
Boqer 
Usage: 214

חרה 
Charah 
Usage: 91

חרישׁ 
Chariysh 
Usage: 3

חרשׂ 
Cheres 
Usage: 17

חרשׁ 
Charash 
Usage: 74

יבּשׁת 
Yabbesheth (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

יצר 
Yatsar 
Usage: 62

לחשׁ 
Lachash 
Usage: 5

מלילה 
M@liylah 
Usage: 1

נזם 
Nexem 
Usage: 17

עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

עגיל 
`agiyl 
Usage: 2

עפר 
`aphar 
Usage: 110

צפר 
Tsaphar 
Usage: 1

רעשׁ 
Ra`ash 
Usage: 17

שׁאל שׁאל 
Sha'al 
Usage: 172

שׁאף 
Sha'aph 
Usage: 14

שׁחר 
Shachar 
Usage: 12

שׁחר 
Shachar 
Usage: 24

שׁכם 
Shakam 
Usage: 65

שׁפרפר 
Sh@pharphar (Aramaic) 
early in the morning
Usage: 1

ἀκοή 
Akoe 
Usage: 21

ἀποκαραδοκία 
Apokaradokia 
Usage: 2

ἀῤῥαβών 
Arrhabon 
Usage: 3

βαθύς 
Bathus 
deep , very early in the morning
Usage: 3

γῆ 
Ge 
Usage: 186

ἐκτενέστερον 
Ektenesteron 
Usage: 1

ἐπαγωνίζομαι 
Epagonizomai 
Usage: 1

ἐπίγειος 
Epigeios 
Usage: 6

ἐπιποθέω 
Epipotheo 
Usage: 9

ἐπιπόθησις 
Epipothesis 
Usage: 2

ζηλόω 
Zeloo 
Usage: 10

οἰκουμένη 
Oikoumene 
Usage: 12

ὀρθρίζω 
Orthrizo 
come early in the morning
Usage: 1

ὄρθριος 
Orthrios 
Usage: 1

ὄρθρος 
Orthros 
early in the morning
Usage: 3

ὀστράκινος 
Ostrakinos 
earthen , of earth
Usage: 2

οὖς 
Ous 
ear
Usage: 14

περισσοτέρως 
Perissoteros 
Usage: 13

προσευχή 
Proseuche 
Usage: 31

πρωΐ́α 
Proia 
Usage: 4

πρώΐμος 
Proimos 
Usage: 1

σεισμός 
Seismos 
Usage: 11

σπουδή 
Spoude 
Usage: 12

χοΐκός 
Choikos 
Usage: 4

ὠτίον 
Otion 
ear
Usage: 4

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