9 occurrences

'Cannot' in the Bible

behold now, thy servant has found favour in thine eyes, and thou hast magnified thy goodness, which thou hast shewn to me in preserving my soul alive; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest calamity lay hold on me, that I die.

Verse ConceptsKindnessPeople's Inability To SaveEscaping To MountainsPossibility Of DeathGod Showed His LovingkindnessUnable To Save

Haste, escape thither; for I cannot do anything until thou art come there. Therefore the name of the city is called Zoar.

Verse ConceptsHasteImpotence Of GodSmall ThingsHurrying Others On

And Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceeds from Jehovah: we cannot speak to thee bad or good.

Verse ConceptsGod In Relation To ManUnable To Harm

And they said, We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well, and we water the sheep.

Verse ConceptsGathering CreaturesRollingUnable To Do Other Things

And she said to her father, Let it not be an occasion of anger in the eyes of my lord that I cannot rise up before thee, for it is with me after the manner of women. And he searched carefully, but did not find the teraphim.

Verse ConceptsMenstruationBleedingSeeking For Concrete ThingsNot FindingNot Able To Get Upwomanhood

And thou saidst, I will certainly deal well with thee, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

Verse ConceptsUncountableImpossible For PeopleGod Doing GoodSand And Gravel

and said to them, We cannot do this, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach to us.

Verse ConceptsForeskinsUncircumcisionImpossible For PeopleNamed SistersUnable To Do Other Things

And we said to my lord, The youth cannot leave his father: if he should leave his father, his father would die.

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathPeople Abandoning People

But we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we cannot see the man's face unless our youngest brother is with us.

Verse ConceptsNot With People

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