'Beings' in the Bible

for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will open and you will be like divine beings who know good and evil."

They must not discriminate in judgment, but hear the lowly and the great alike. Nor should they be intimidated by human beings, for judgment belongs to God. If the matter being adjudicated is too difficult for them, they should bring it before me for a hearing.

You said, "The Lord our God has shown us his great glory and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.

I will become his father and he will become my son. When he sins, I will correct him with the rod of men and with wounds inflicted by human beings.

all flesh would perish together and human beings would return to dust.

to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a desert where there are no human beings,

and make them a little less than the heavenly beings? You grant mankind honor and majesty;

A psalm of David. Acknowledge the Lord, you heavenly beings, acknowledge the Lord's majesty and power!

Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air.

For who in the skies can compare to the Lord? Who is like the Lord among the heavenly beings,

Does the one who disciplines the nations not punish? He is the one who imparts knowledge to human beings!

Do not trust in princes, or in human beings, who cannot deliver!

Stop trusting in human beings, whose life's breath is in their nostrils. For why should they be given special consideration?

I will make human beings more scarce than pure gold, and people more scarce than gold from Ophir.

"I, I am the one who consoles you. Why are you afraid of mortal men, of mere human beings who are as short-lived as grass?

So," the Lord God says, "my raging fury will be poured out on this land. It will be poured out on human beings and animals, on trees and crops. And it will burn like a fire which cannot be extinguished."

The Lord says, "I will put a curse on people who trust in mere human beings, who depend on mere flesh and blood for their strength, and whose hearts have turned away from the Lord.

In the fire were what looked like four living beings. In their appearance they had human form,

Their wings were spread out above them; each had two wings touching the wings of one of the other beings on either side and two wings covering their bodies.

In the middle of the living beings was something like burning coals of fire or like torches. It moved back and forth among the living beings. It was bright, and lightning was flashing out of the fire.

The living beings moved backward and forward as quickly as flashes of lightning.

Then I looked, and I saw one wheel on the ground beside each of the four beings.

When the living beings moved, the wheels beside them moved; when the living beings rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up too.

When the living beings moved, the wheels moved, and when they stopped moving, the wheels stopped. When they rose up from the ground, the wheels rose up from the ground; the wheels rose up beside them because the spirit of the living being was in the wheel.

Over the heads of the living beings was something like a platform, glittering awesomely like ice, stretched out over their heads.

Under the platform their wings were stretched out, each toward the other. Each of the beings also had two wings covering its body.

and the sound of the living beings' wings brushing against each other, and the sound of the wheels alongside them, a great rumbling sound.

The cherubim rose up; these were the living beings I saw at the Kebar River.

When the cherubim stood still, the wheels stood still, and when they rose up, the wheels rose up with them, for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.

Wherever human beings, wild animals, and birds of the sky live -- he has given them into your power. He has given you authority over them all. You are the head of gold.

This announcement is by the decree of the sentinels; this decision is by the pronouncement of the holy ones, so that those who are alive may understand that the Most High has authority over human kingdoms, and he bestows them on whomever he wishes. He establishes over them even the lowliest of human beings.'