17 occurrences in 12 translations

'Commended' in the Bible

The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

"When [the] ear heard and commended me, and [the] eye saw and testified in support of me

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

So I commended the dead who had already died as being happier than the living who are still alive.

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

“Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a Man accredited and pointed out and attested to you by God with [the power to perform] miracles and wonders and signs which God worked through Him in your [very] midst, just as you yourselves know—

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith [your trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness] is being proclaimed in all the world.

For consider how much diligence this very thing—this grieving as God wills—has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.

I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

By faith Abel offered God a greater sacrifice than Cain, and through his faith he was commended as righteous, because God commended him for his offerings. And through his faith he still speaks, though he is dead.

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death, and he was not to be found because God took him up. For before his removal he had been commended as having pleased God.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
הלל 
Halal 
Usage: 165

שׁבח 
Shabach 
praise , still , keep it in , glory , triumph , commend
Usage: 11

ἐπαινέω 
Epaineo 
Usage: 5

παρατίθημι 
Paratithemi 
Usage: 15

συνιστάω συνιστάνω συνίστημι 
sunistao 
Usage: 16

συστατικός 
Sustatikos 
Usage: 2

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