11 occurrences

'Caves' in the Bible

The Midianites overwhelmed Israel. Because of Midian the Israelites made shelters for themselves in the hills, as well as caves and strongholds.

The men of Israel realized they had a problem because their army was hard pressed. So the army hid in caves, thickets, cliffs, strongholds, and cisterns.

At this very moment he is hiding out in one of the caves or in some other similar place. If it should turn out that he attacks our troops first, whoever hears about it will say, 'Absalom's army has been slaughtered!'

When Jezebel was killing the Lord's prophets, Obadiah took one hundred prophets and hid them in two caves in two groups of fifty. He also brought them food and water.)

Certainly my master is aware of what I did when Jezebel was killing the Lord's prophets. I hid one hundred of the Lord's prophets in two caves in two groups of fifty and I brought them food and water.

Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of idle hands the house leaks.

They will go into caves in the rocky cliffs and into holes in the ground, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the Lord and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.

At that time men will throw their silver and gold idols, which they made for themselves to worship, into the caves where rodents and bats live,

"This is what you must say to them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: As surely as I live, those living in the ruins will die by the sword, those in the open field I will give to the wild beasts for food, and those who are in the strongholds and caves will die of disease.

Then the kings of the earth, the very important people, the generals, the rich, the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

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Root Form
Definition
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חר חור 
Chowr 
Usage: 7

מחלּה 
M@chillah 
Usage: 1

מערה 
M@`arah 
cave , den , holes
Usage: 39

κρανίον 
Kranion 
Usage: 4

ὀπή 
Ope 
Usage: 2

σπήλαιον 
Spelaion 
den , cave
Usage: 3

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