9 occurrences

'Cannot' in the Bible

Now behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness, which you have shown me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, for the disaster will overtake me and I will die;

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

Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar.

Verse ConceptsHasteImpotence Of GodSmall ThingsHurrying Others On

Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “The matter comes from the Lord; so we cannot speak to you bad or good.

Verse ConceptsGod In Relation To ManUnable To Harm

But they said, “We cannot, until all the flocks are gathered, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.”

Verse ConceptsGathering CreaturesRollingUnable To Do Other Things

She said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the household idols.

Verse ConceptsMenstruationBleedingSeeking For Concrete ThingsNot FindingNot Able To Get Upwomanhood

For You said, ‘I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered.’”

Verse ConceptsUncountableImpossible For PeopleGod Doing GoodSand And Gravel

They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.

Verse ConceptsForeskinsUncircumcisionImpossible For PeopleNamed SistersUnable To Do Other Things

But we said to my lord, ‘The lad cannot leave his father, for 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 is with us, then we will 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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