143 occurrences in 12 translations

'Grave' in the Bible

And the Lord said, “The outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is indeed great, and their sin is exceedingly grave.

“Hear us, my lord, you are a mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our graves; none of us will refuse you his grave for burying your dead.”

And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:

And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

Then Moses asked Aaron, “What did these people do to you that you have led them into such a grave sin?”

But if the Lord does something entirely new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up along with all that they have, and they go down alive to the grave, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord!"

And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:

'At that time hath Jehovah said unto me, Grave for thee two tables of stone, like the first, and come up unto Me, into the mount, and thou hast made for thee an ark of wood,

and I make an ark of shittim wood, and grave two tables of stone like the first, and go up to the mount, and the two tables in my hand.

He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab facing Beth-peor, and no one to this day knows where his grave is.

Today when you leave me, you’ll find two men at Rachel’s Grave at Zelzah in the land of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you went looking for have been found, and now your father has stopped being concerned about the donkeys and is worried about you, asking: What should I do about my son?’

Saul responded, “I have sinned. Come back, my son David, I will never harm you again because today you considered my life precious. I have been a fool! I’ve committed a grave error.”

Then they picked up Asahel and buried him in the grave of his father, which [was at] Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all that night {[arriving] in Hebron at first light}.

And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

Then David commanded the young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hung them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

Now when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and arose and went to his home, to his city, and set his house in order, and strangled himself; thus he died and was buried in the grave of his father.

Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.

They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the grave of Kish his father; thus they did all that the king commanded, and after that God was moved by prayer for the land.

Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.

Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.

but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place that He said to you, “Do not eat bread and do not drink water”— your corpse will never reach the grave of your fathers.’”

And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!

After he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones,

And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

Then his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem and buried him in his grave with his fathers in the city of David.

One day while some Israelis were burying a man, they saw some marauders, so they threw the man into Elisha's grave. But when the man fell against Elisha's remains, he revived and rose to his feet.

He was buried in his own grave in the Garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah became king in his place.

Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

And he bringeth out the shrine from the house of Jehovah to the outside of Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burneth it at the brook Kidron, and beateth it small to dust, and casteth its dust on the grave of the sons of the people.

When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought; he burned them on the altar and defiled it. This fulfilled the Lord's announcement made by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. King Josiah turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this.

He asked, "What is this monument that I'm looking at?" The men who lived in that city answered him, "It's the grave of that godly man who came from Judah and predicted these things that you've done against the altar at Bethel!"

And his servants cause him to ride dying from Megiddo, and bring him in to Jerusalem, and bury him in his own grave, and the people of the land take Jehoahaz son of Josiah, and anoint him, and cause him to reign instead of his father.

Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.

The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.

Uzziah died, as had his ancestors, and they buried him alongside his ancestors in a grave in a field that belonged to the kings, because they said, "He was a leper." Uzziah's son Jotham became king to replace him.

Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

Why not forgive my sinand pardon my transgression?For soon I will lie down in the grave.You will eagerly seek me, but I will be gone.

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

“But his body [lamenting its decay] grieves in pain over it,And his soul mourns over [the loss of] himself.”

If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!

His bones may be full of youthful vigor,but will lie down with him in the grave.

Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

The dirt on his grave is sweet to him.Everyone follows behind him,and those who go before him are without number.

Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?

All the prosperous people will eat and bow down in submission. All those who are about to go down to the grave will bow down in submission, along with the one who can no longer keep himself alive.

By David. To you, O Lord, I cry out! My protector, do not ignore me! If you do not respond to me, I will join those who are descending into the grave.

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

"What profit is there in taking my life, in my descending into the Pit? Can the dust of the grave praise you? Can it declare your loyalty?

Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

So that he should live on eternally,That he should never see the pit (grave) and undergo decay.

Their grave becomes their permanent residence, their eternal dwelling place. They name their lands after themselves,

Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.

For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.

Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.

Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?

Answer me quickly, Lord! My strength is fading. Do not reject me, or I will join those descending into the grave.

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

But they do not realize that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of the grave.

A man who is burdened with the guilt of human blood (murder)Will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him or give him refuge.

God gives a man riches, property, and wealth so that he lacks nothing that his heart desires, yet God does not enable him to enjoy the fruit of his labor -- instead, someone else enjoys it! This is fruitless and a grave misfortune.

If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, 'Better than he is the untimely birth.'

So I saw the wicked buried, and they came to the grave ; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

"Come, go to this steward, to Shebna who is in charge of the household, and ask him: "What are you doing here, and who are your relatives here that you could carve out a grave for yourself here cutting out a tomb at the choicest location, chiseling out a resting place for yourself out of solid rock?

I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

I said, "I won't see the LORD in the land of the living; and I'll no longer observe human beings among the denizens of the grave.

For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.

One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, one who is like a mere shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter, "What in the world are you doing? Your work lacks skill!"

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
חצץ 
Chatsats 
Usage: 2

פּסל 
Pecel 
Usage: 31

בּעי 
B@`iy 
Usage: 1

חצב חצב 
Chatsab 
Usage: 25

חקק 
Chaqaq 
Usage: 19

חרט 
Cheret 
Usage: 2

חרשׁ 
Charash 
Usage: 74

חרת 
Charath 
Usage: 1

מעה 
me`ah 
Usage: 1

מקלעת 
Miqla`ath 
Usage: 4

פּסיל 
P@ciyl 
Usage: 23

פּסל 
Pacal 
Usage: 6

פּתּח פּתּוּח 
Pittuwach 
Usage: 11

פּתח 
Pathach 
Usage: 143

קברה קבוּרה 
Q@buwrah 
Usage: 14

קברה קבר 
Qeber 
Usage: 67

שׁאל שׁאול 
Sh@'owl 
grave , hell , pit
Usage: 65

שׁחת 
Shachath 
Usage: 23

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ᾅδης 
Hades 
Usage: 6

κειρία 
Keiria 
Usage: 1

μνῆμα 
Mnema 
Usage: 7

μνημεῖον 
Mnemeion 
Usage: 37

σεμνός 
Semnos 
Usage: 4

σεμνότης 
Semnotes 
Usage: 3

χάραγμα 
Charagma 
Usage: 9

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