'Direct' in the Bible

All of these people, who belonged to Jacob's family, traveled to Egypt. All of Jacob's direct descendants, not including his sons' wives, numbered 66 persons in all.

"If a man strikes his male or female servant with a stick and he or she dies as a direct result, the master must be punished.

but Korah's direct descendants didn't die.

Now the daughters of Hepher's son Zelophehad, Gilead's grandson, who had been fathered by Machir, who had been fathered by Manasseh, from the tribe of Manasseh, the direct son of Joseph, were named Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. They approached

Gideon raised 70 sons as his direct descendants, since he had many wives.

Then Samuel told the whole house of Israel, "If you're returning to the LORD with all your heart, then remove the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, direct your hearts back to the LORD, and serve him only. Then he will deliver you from the control of the Philistines."

LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our ancestors, keep your purposes and thoughts constantly in the hearts of your people and direct their hearts toward you,

But the people conspired against him, and at the direct orders of the king they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the LORD's Temple.

(His closest advisors were: Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven officials of Persia and Media who had direct access to the king and who held the highest rank in the kingdom.)

let him not direct a rebuke toward me. I won't be responding to him with your arguments.

I will instruct you and teach you concerning the path you should walk; I will direct you with my eye.

Direct my footsteps by your promise, and do not let any kind of iniquity rule over me.

For evil's scepter will not rest on the land that has been allotted to the righteous, and so the righteous will not direct themselves to do wrong.

""He'll direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and will breach your fortified towers with axes.

Therefore, look! I'm bringing foreigners in your direction, the most terrifying of nations! They will direct their violence against the grandeur that you've created by your wisdom.

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of the Messiah.