362 occurrences

'Answered' in the Bible

But Cain answered the Lord, “My punishment is too great to bear!

Verse ConceptsBearingStrictnessPunishments

“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked him.“There, in the tent,” he answered.

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?sarah

Then he spoke to Him again, “Suppose 40 are found there?”He answered, “I will not do it on account of 40.”

Verse ConceptsFortiesNumbers Of Righteous People

Then he said, “Let the Lord not be angry, and I will speak further. Suppose 30 are found there?”He answered, “I will not do it if I find 30 there.”

Verse ConceptsThirtyLet Not God Be AngryNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To God

Then he said, “Let the Lord not be angry, and I will speak one more time. Suppose 10 are found there?”He answered, “I will not destroy it on account of 10.”

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfTen PeopleLet Not God Be AngryNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To GodWorth

After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!”“Here I am,” he answered.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamAbraham, Characteristics OfTrialsAbraham, Testing And VictoryBehold Me!Temptation

Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” Then the two of them walked on together.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambAbrahamGod, The ProviderGoing TogetherGod ProvidingSheep And Goatsproviding

Ephron was sitting among the Hittites. So in the presence of all the Hittites who came to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham:

Verse ConceptsempiresCitiesBusiness At The GatewayIn Men's Presence

Ephron answered Abraham and said to him,

Verse ConceptsAnswering People

Abraham answered him, “Make sure that you don’t take my son back there.

Verse ConceptsReturning to the old

She answered him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”

Verse ConceptsThis Is Me

Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the Lord; we have no choice in the matter.

Verse ConceptsGod In Relation To ManUnable To Harm

and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?”The servant answered, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself.

Verse ConceptsCoveringVeilsMeeting PeopleWho Is This?The Brides Wedding Dress

Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?”Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathWhy Do You Do This?Transferring Wives

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could not see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.”And he answered, “Here I am.”

Verse ConceptsBlindness, Causes OfOld Age, DisabilitiesEyes, Affected BydisabilitiesOld Age, Attainment OfVisionWeakness, PhysicalDimness Of VisionBehold Me!Others Summoning

Jacob answered Rebekah his mother, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am a man with smooth skin.

Verse ConceptsSkinSmoothnessHairy PeopleSmooth

When he came to his father, he said, “My father.”And he answered, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

Verse ConceptsWho Is This?Behold Me!

But his father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?”He answered, “I am Esau your firstborn son.”

Verse ConceptsFirstborn SonsWho Is This?This Is Me

But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him a master over you, have given him all of his relatives as his servants, and have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son?”

Verse ConceptsServing PeopleProviding Wine

Then his father Isaac answered him:Look, your dwelling place will beaway from the richness of the land,away from the dew of the sky above.

Verse ConceptsdewLack Of Rain

Jacob asked the men at the well, “My brothers! Where are you from?”“We’re from Haran,” they answered.

Verse ConceptsWhere From?

“Do you know Laban grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked them.They answered, “We know him.”

Verse ConceptsGrandchildrenKnowing PeopleImmigrants

Laban answered, “It is not the custom in this place to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersCustom

Then Rachel and Leah answered him, “Do we have any portion or inheritance in our father’s household?

Verse ConceptsNot Sharing

Jacob answered, “I was afraid, for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.

Verse ConceptsTaking Other PeopleFear Of Individuals

Then Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters; the sons, my sons; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne?

Verse ConceptsPeople Possessing Other Things

Then Jacob asked Him, “Please tell me Your name.”But He answered, “Why do you ask My name?” And He blessed him there.

Verse ConceptsWhy Do You Do This?What Is God's Name?Blessed By God

When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?”He answered, “The children God has graciously given your servant.”

Verse ConceptsBad ParentsChildren, attitudes towardsSanctity Of LifeChildren, A Gift From GodWho Is This?Gifts Of GodOther Gifts Of GodSeeing People

So Esau said, “What do you mean by this whole procession I met?”“To find favor with you, my lord,” he answered.

Verse ConceptsMeaning

But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah.

Verse ConceptsRapePeople Being PollutedNamed SistersThose Who Deceivedhumor

But they answered, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”

Verse ConceptsNamed Sisters

We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me everywhere I have gone.”

Verse ConceptsDistressGod AnsweredGod Has Been With YouGod With Specific People

“What should I give you?” he asked.She answered, “Your signet ring, your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she got pregnant by him.

Verse ConceptsSealsStaffConceptionCords

He asked the men of the place, “Where is the cult prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?”“There has been no cult prostitute here,” they answered.

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?whores

“I am not able to,” Joseph answered Pharaoh. “It is God who will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”

Verse ConceptsHumilityMission, Of IsraelGod Will AnswerNot Me

But Jacob answered, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If anything happens to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.”

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Experience OfGrave, TheLove, And The WorldUnhappinessParental LoveAfflicted To DeathGreySole SurvivorsDeath Of Unnamed Individuals

They answered, “The man kept asking about us and our family: ‘Is your father still alive? Do you have another brother?’ And we answered him accordingly. How could we know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother here’?”

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular QuestionsAnswering PeopleNot Knowing The FutureLiving On

They answered, “Your servant our father is well. He is still alive.” And they bowed down to honor him.

Verse ConceptsBowing Before JosephLiving On

and we answered my lord, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofJacob, Life And Character OfPrejudiceSole SurvivorsDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsThose Who LovedExamples Of Love For Children

When I rest with my fathers, carry me away from Egypt and bury me in their burial place.”Joseph answered, “I will do what you have asked.”

Verse ConceptsChildren, Good KidsCarrying Dead BodiesThe Cave Of MachpelahGathered To One's People

They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Saving OthersStock Keeping

When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from the bush, “Moses, Moses!”“Here I am,” he answered.

Verse ConceptsCalling, Of IndividualsDuplicating WordsThis Is Me

Then Moses answered, “What if they won’t believe me and will not obey me but say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”

Verse ConceptsdoubtersHesitationMoses, Life OfUnbelief, As Response To GodGod AppearingNot Believing People

Then they answered, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God, or else He may strike us with plague or sword.”

Verse ConceptsSwordsThree DaysParticular JourneysA Feast In The WildernessGod Might Kill His People

The Lord answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Ancestry And GenealogyAaron, PositionValidly Like GodIndividual ProphetsMen As Gods

“Tomorrow,” he answered.Moses replied, “As you have said, so you may know there is no one like Yahweh our God,

Verse ConceptsGod, The LordGod, Uniqueness OfMonotheismUniquenessGod's Action TomorrowNo One Is Like GodKnowing God's Charactertomorrow

The Lord answered Moses, “Go on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take the staff you struck the Nile with in your hand and go.

Verse ConceptsThe Elders Gathered

As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in the thunder.

Verse ConceptsSymbolsTrumpets For SignallingGod Answered

The Lord answered Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”

Verse ConceptsMoses, Significance OfGod Knowing His PeopleFavorGuidance And Strength

The Lord answered Moses, “Bring Me 70 men from Israel known to you as elders and officers of the people. Take them to the tent of meeting and have them stand there with you.

Verse ConceptsSeventiesLeadersIdentityResponsibilityThe Elderlyeldersorganizationgathering

The Lord answered Moses, “Is the Lord’s power limited? You will see whether or not what I have promised will happen to you.”

Verse ConceptsGod's HandGod's Weakness

The Lord answered Moses, “If her father had merely spit in her face, wouldn’t she remain in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”

Verse ConceptsSpittingSalivaShaming People

But Edom answered him, “You must not travel through our land, or we will come out and confront you with the sword.”

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahHospitality, Examples OfInhospitality

Balaam answered the donkey, “You made me look like a fool. If I had a sword in my hand, I’d kill you now!”

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyKilling Domesticated Animals

He answered, “Shouldn’t I say exactly what the Lord puts in my mouth?”

Verse ConceptsSpeaking The Word God Gives

But Balaam answered him, “Didn’t I tell you: Whatever the Lord says, I must do?”

Verse ConceptsSpeaking The Word God Gives

Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I previously tell the messengers you sent me:

and the Lord answered him,

The Gadites and Reubenites answered Moses, “Your servants will do just as my lord commands.

Verse ConceptsReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

“You answered me, ‘We have sinned against the Lord. We will go up and fight just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ Then each of you put on his weapons of war and thought it would be easy to go up into the hill country.

Verse ConceptsUnderestimationEasy For PeopleWe Have Sinned

They answered Joshua, “Everything you have commanded us we will do, and everywhere you send us we will go.

Verse ConceptsPeople Sending PeopleObeying People

The men answered her, “We will give our lives for yours. If you don’t report our mission, we will show kindness and faithfulness to you when the Lord gives us the land.”

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsReward, HumanNegotiationDo Not TellExchange Of Individuals

All the leaders answered them, “We have sworn an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them.

Verse ConceptsCovenant ObligationsTouchUnable To Harm

The Gibeonites answered him, “It was clearly communicated to your servants that the Lord your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you. We greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we did this.

Verse ConceptsAnxiety, Examples Of

The Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the Israelite clans,

Verse ConceptsReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

“No!” the people answered Joshua. “We will worship the Lord.”

The Lord answered, “Judah is to go. I have handed the land over to him.”

Verse ConceptsPeople Of JudahThose God Gave Into Their Hands

She answered him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water also.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

His friend answered: “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has handed the entire Midianite camp over to him.”

Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Handsgideon

He went from there to Penuel and asked the same thing from them. The men of Penuel answered just as the men of Succoth had answered.

They answered Jephthah, “Since that’s true, we now turn to you. Come with us, fight the Ammonites, and you will become leader of all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim. Whenever a fugitive from Ephraim said, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites asked him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,”

Verse ConceptsFords

The Angel of the Lord answered Manoah, “Your wife needs to do everything I told her.

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To God!

Then 3,000 men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Don’t you realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?”“I have done to them what they did to me,” he answered.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftRulersThree Thousand And UpRepaying Evil For Evil

“Where do you come from?” Micah asked him.He answered him, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I’m going to settle wherever I can find a place.”

Verse ConceptsWhere From?

They answered, “Come on, let’s go up against them, for we have seen the land, and it is very good. Why wait? Don’t hesitate to go and invade and take possession of the land!

He answered him, “We’re traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I’m going to the house of the Lord. No one has taken me into his home,

Verse ConceptsNot Welcoming People

The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered: “I went to Gibeah in Benjamin with my concubine to spend the night.

Verse ConceptsStaying Temporarily

They set out, went to Bethel, and inquired of God. The Israelites asked, “Who is to go first to fight for us against the Benjaminites?”And the Lord answered, “Judah will be first.”

Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodFirst To FightFighting EnemiesPeople Of Judah

They went up, wept before the Lord until evening, and inquired of Him: “Should we again fight against our brothers the Benjaminites?”And the Lord answered: “Fight against them.”

Verse ConceptsAction Until Evening

and Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, was serving before it. The Israelites asked: “Should we again fight against our brothers the Benjaminites or should we stop?”The Lord answered: “Fight, because I will hand them over to you tomorrow.”

Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

“Don’t call me Naomi. Call me Mara,” she answered, “for the Almighty has made me very bitter.

Verse ConceptsDisappointments, Examples OfPeople Renaming PeopleGod TroublingPeople With Apt NamesDepressionBitterness

Ruth the Moabitess asked Naomi, “Will you let me go into the fields and gather fallen grain behind someone who allows me to?”Naomi answered her, “Go ahead, my daughter.”

Verse ConceptsGleaning

The servant answered, “She is the young Moabite woman who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.

Boaz answered her, “Everything you have done for your mother-in-law since your husband’s death has been fully reported to me: how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you didn’t previously know.

Verse ConceptsMothers, Responsibilities OfRuthSelf DenialSelf SacrificeMother In LawsNot Knowing PeopleTelling What People DidDeath Of A Mother

I thought I should inform you: Buy it back in the presence of those seated here and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you want to redeem it, do so. But if you do not want to redeem it, tell me so that I will know, because there isn’t anyone other than you to redeem it, and I am next after you.”“I want to redeem it,” he answered.

Verse ConceptsNegotiationKnowing Facts

Then the Lord called Samuel, and he answered, “Here I am.”

Verse ConceptsNightBehold Me!God's Call

but Eli called him and said, “Samuel, my son.”“Here I am,” answered Samuel.

Verse ConceptsBehold Me!Others Summoning

The messenger answered, “Israel has fled from the Philistines, and also there was a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”

Verse ConceptsLossPriesthood, In OtThe Ark Moved AroundIsrael Fleeing

They asked, “What restitution offering should we send back to Him?”And they answered, “Five gold tumors and five gold mice corresponding to the number of Philistine rulers, since there was one plague for both you and your rulers.

Verse ConceptsGoldMiceFive PeopleFive AnimalsFive Things

Then Samuel took a young lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. He cried out to the Lord on behalf of Israel, and the Lord answered him.

Verse ConceptsBurnt offeringLambsPrayer, Answers ToCrying To GodYoung AnimalGod AnsweredPray For Us

The attendant answered Saul: “Here, I have a piece of silver. I’ll give it to the man of God, and he will tell us our way.”

Verse ConceptsPresentsA Fourth PartMan Of God

The women answered, “Yes, he is ahead of you. Hurry, he just now came to the city, because there’s a sacrifice for the people at the high place today.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesHurrying Others On

“I am the seer,” Samuel answered. “Go up ahead of me to the high place and eat with me today. When I send you off in the morning, I’ll tell you everything that’s in your heart.

Verse ConceptsMorningThis Is Me

Saul’s uncle asked him and his attendant, “Where did you go?”“To look for the donkeys,” Saul answered. “When we saw they weren’t there, we went to Samuel.”

Verse ConceptsSeeking For Concrete ThingsWhere To?

and Samuel asked, “What have you done?”Saul answered, “When I saw that the troops were deserting me and you didn’t come within the appointed days and the Philistines were gathering at Michmash,

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Scattering Followers

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
תּוּב 
Tuwb (Aramaic) 
Usage: 8

ἀπολογέομαι 
Apologeomai 
Usage: 8

ἀπολογία 
Apologia 
Usage: 8

אמר 
'emer 
Usage: 49

מלּה מלּה 
Millah 
Usage: 38

מענה 
Ma`aneh 
Usage: 8

עמּה 
`ummah 
Usage: 32

ענה 
`anah 
Usage: 329

ענה 
`anah (Aramaic) 
Usage: 30

פּתגּם 
Pithgam (Aramaic) 
Usage: 6

שׁוּב 
Shuwb 
Usage: 1058

תּשׁבה תּשׁוּבה 
T@shuwbah 
Usage: 8

ἀνταποκρίνομαι 
Antapokrinomai 
Usage: 2

ἀντίλεγω 
Antilego 
Usage: 10

ἀποκρίνομαι 
Apokrinomai 
Usage: 231

ἀπόκρισις 
Apokrisis 
Usage: 4

ἐπερώτημα 
Eperotema 
Usage: 1

συστοιχέω 
Sustoicheo 
answer to
Usage: 1

ὑπολαμβάνω 
Hupolambano 
Usage: 4

χρηματισμός 
Chrematismos 
answer of God
Usage: 1

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