1070 occurrences

'Down' in the Bible

The Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

The birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, terror and great darkness fell upon him.

Then the men rose up from there, and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was walking with them to send them off.

I will go down now, and see if they have done entirely according to its outcry, which has come to Me; and if not, I will know.”

Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;

and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a furnace.

So they made their father drink wine that night, and the firstborn went in and lay with her father; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

So they made their father drink wine that night also, and the younger arose and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Do not let me see the boy die.” And she sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice and wept.

He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.

now may it be that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar so that I may drink,’ and who answers, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels also’—may she be the one whom You have appointed for Your servant Isaac; and by this I will know that You have shown lovingkindness to my master.”

The girl was very beautiful, a virgin, and no man had had relations with her; and she went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.

“Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder, and went down to the spring and drew, and I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’

The Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land of which I shall tell you.

May peoples serve you,And nations bow down to you;Be master of your brothers,And may your mother’s sons bow down to you.Cursed be those who curse you,And blessed be those who bless you.”

He came to a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head, and lay down in that place.

But he himself passed on ahead of them and bowed down to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

Then the maids came near with their children, and they bowed down.

Leah likewise came near with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed down.

for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf rose up and also stood erect; and behold, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf.”

Now he had still another dream, and related it to his brothers, and said, “Lo, I have had still another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

He related it to his father and to his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have had? Shall I and your mother and your brothers actually come to bow ourselves down before you to the ground?”

Then they sat down to eat a meal. And as they raised their eyes and looked, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing aromatic gum and balm and myrrh, on their way to bring them down to Egypt.

Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, “Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there.

He said, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down there and buy some for us from that place, so that we may live and not die.”

Then ten brothers of Joseph went down to buy grain from Egypt.

Now Joseph was the ruler over the land; he was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.

But Jacob said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should befall him on the journey you are taking, then you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”

If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food.

But if you do not send him, we will not go down; for the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’”

But they said, “The man questioned particularly about us and our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ So we answered his questions. Could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and carry down to the man as a present, a little balm and a little honey, aromatic gum and myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds.

So the men took this present, and they took double the money in their hand, and Benjamin; then they arose and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

and said, “Oh, my lord, we indeed came down the first time to buy food,

We have also brought down other money in our hand to buy food; we do not know who put our money in our sacks.”

They said, “Your servant our father is well; he is still alive.” They bowed down in homage.

Then you said to your servants, ‘Bring him down to me that I may set my eyes on him.’

You said to your servants, however, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’

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.’

If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’

when he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die. Thus your servants will bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, ‘Thus says your son Joseph, “God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down to me, do not delay.

Now you must tell my father of all my splendor in Egypt, and all that you have seen; and you must hurry and bring my father down here.”

He said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.

I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will close your eyes.”

but when I lie down with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” And he said, “I will do as you have said.”

“Judah, your brothers shall praise you;Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies;Your father’s sons shall bow down to you.

“Judah is a lion’s whelp;From the prey, my son, you have gone up.He couches, he lies down as a lion,And as a lion, who dares rouse him up?

Then his brothers also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the Nile, with her maidens walking alongside the Nile; and she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid, and she brought it to her.

So he looked this way and that, and when he saw there was no one around, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Work a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’”

So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and thus they did just as the Lord had commanded; and Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.

For each one threw down his staff and they turned into serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

Now therefore send, bring your livestock and whatever you have in the field to safety. Every man and beast that is found in the field and is not brought home, when the hail comes down on them, will die.”’”

Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.

All these your servants will come down to me and bow themselves before me, saying, ‘Go out, you and all the people who follow you,’ and after that I will go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—I am the Lord.

At the morning watch, the Lord looked down on the army of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud and brought the army of the Egyptians into confusion.

“The deeps cover them;They went down into the depths like a stone.

So it came about when Moses held his hand up, that Israel prevailed, and when he let his hand down, Amalek prevailed.

Then Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and he bowed down and kissed him; and they asked each other of their welfare and went into the tent.

and let them be ready for the third day, for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and consecrated the people, and they washed their garments.

The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain; and the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, so that they do not break through to the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.

Then the Lord said to him, “Go down and come up again, you and Aaron with you; but do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the Lord, or He will break forth upon them.”

So Moses went down to the people and told them.

Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. Then he arose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Now when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people assembled about Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us a god who will go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets which were written on both sides; they were written on one side and the other.

But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

It came about when Moses was coming down from Mount Sinai (and the two tablets of the testimony were in Moses’ hand as he was coming down from the mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with Him.

Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and he stepped down after making the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings.

He shall therefore tear down the house, its stones, and its timbers, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall take them outside the city to an unclean place.

Likewise, whoever lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

‘You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the Lord your God.

I shall also grant peace in the land, so that you may lie down with no one making you tremble. I shall also eliminate harmful beasts from the land, and no sword will pass through your land.

I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.

I will also break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.

I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.

So when the tabernacle is to set out, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle encamps, the Levites shall set it up. But the layman who comes near shall be put to death.

For all the firstborn are Mine; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, from man to beast. They shall be Mine; I am the Lord.”

“When the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and they shall take down the veil of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it;

For every firstborn among the sons of Israel is Mine, among the men and among the animals; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself.

Whenever the cloud was lifted from over the tent, afterward the sons of Israel would then set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the sons of Israel would camp.

and the sons of Israel set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai. Then the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.

Then the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were carrying the tabernacle, set out.

Then I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take of the Spirit who is upon you, and will put Him upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you will not bear it all alone.

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Definition
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καταβαίνω 
Katabaino 
Usage: 63

נתץ 
Nathats 
Usage: 42

ἀνακλίνω 
Anaklino 
Usage: 5

καθαιρέω 
Kathaireo 
Usage: 8

חתת 
Chathath 
Usage: 48

נפל 
Naphal 
Usage: 434

שׁחח 
Shachach 
Usage: 21

ἀναπίπτω 
Anapipto 
sit down , sit down to meat , be set down , lean
Usage: 8

הלם 
Halam 
Usage: 9

ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

נגר 
Nagar 
Usage: 10

נוּח 
Nuwach 
Usage: 144

שׁחה 
Shachah 
Usage: 171

ἀνακεῖμαι 
Anakeimai 
sit at meat , guests , sit , sit down , be set down , lie , lean , at the table
Usage: 10

ἐκκόπτω 
Ekkopto 
Usage: 6

κάθημαι 
Kathemai 
sit , sit down , sit by , be set down , dwell
Usage: 78

καθίζω 
Kathizo 
sit , sit down , set , be set , be set down , continue , tarry
Usage: 30

καταβιβάζω 
Katabibazo 
Usage: 0

κατακλίνω 
Kataklino 
Usage: 1

κατέρχομαι 
Katerchomai 
Usage: 13

προσπίπτω 
Prospipto 
Usage: 7

τίθημι 
Tithemi 
Usage: 71

בּרא 
Bara' 
Usage: 54

בּרך 
Barak 
Usage: 330

גּדע 
Gada` 
... down , cut off , asunder , cut in sunder
Usage: 22

גּהר 
Gahar 
Usage: 3

גּזז 
Gazaz 
Usage: 15

גּזר 
Gazar 
Usage: 13

גּלל 
Galal 
Usage: 18

דּוּשׁ 
Duwsh (Aramaic) 
tread it down
Usage: 1

דּחח דּחה 
Dachah 
Usage: 10

דּמה 
Damah 
Usage: 15

דּמם 
Damam 
Usage: 30

דּרך 
Darak 
Usage: 63

הדך 
Hadak 
Usage: 1

הפך 
Hophek 
Usage: 1

זלל 
Zalal 
Usage: 9

חבט 
Chabat 
Usage: 5

חטב 
Chatab 
Usage: 9

חתת 
Chathath 
Usage: 1

ינח 
Yanach 
Usage: 0

יצק 
Yatsaq 
Usage: 53

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

ישׁח 
Yeshach 
Usage: 1

כּחד 
Kachad 
Usage: 32

כּנע 
Kana` 
Usage: 36

כּסח 
Kacach 
cut up , cut down
Usage: 2

כּפף 
Kaphaph 
Usage: 5

כּרע 
Kara` 
Usage: 36

כּרת 
Karath 
Usage: 287

כּשׁל 
Kashal 
Usage: 62

כּתת 
Kathath 
Usage: 17

לוּע 
Luwa` 
Usage: 2

מבוא 
Mabow' 
Usage: 23

מבוּסה 
M@buwcah 
Usage: 3

מוט 
Mowt 
Usage: 38

מוּל 
Muwl 
Usage: 37

מורד 
Mowrad 
Usage: 5

מטּה 
Mattah 
Usage: 19

מעל 
me`al (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

מרבּץ 
Marbets 
Usage: 2

מרמס 
Mirmac 
Usage: 7

נבט 
Nabat 
Usage: 69

נבל 
Nabel 
Usage: 25

נגע 
Naga` 
Usage: 150

נגף 
Nagaph 
Usage: 49

נדח 
Nadach 
Usage: 53

נדף 
Nadaph 
drive away , drive , thrust him down , shaken , driven to and fro , tossed to and fro
Usage: 9

נזל 
Nazal 
Usage: 16

נחת 
Nachath 
Usage: 9

נחת 
N@chath (Aramaic) 
Usage: 6

נחת 
Nachath 
Usage: 8

נטף 
Nataph 
Usage: 18

נמל 
Namal 
Usage: 4

נסח 
N@cach (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

נפל 
N@phal (Aramaic) 
Usage: 11

נקף 
Naqaph 
Usage: 19

סגד 
Cagad 
Usage: 4

סלה 
Calah 
Usage: 4

עוה 
`avah 
Usage: 17

עות 
`avath 
Usage: 11

עסס 
`acac 
Usage: 1

עקר 
`aqar 
hough , pluck up , rooted up , digged down
Usage: 7

ערף 
`araph 
Usage: 2

ערף 
`araph 
Usage: 5

פּרץ 
Parats 
Usage: 49

צען 
Tsa`an 
Usage: 1

קוּר 
Quwr 
Usage: 5

קטף 
Qataph 
crop off , pluck , cut up , cut down
Usage: 5

קמט 
Qamat 
cut down , filled me with wrinkles
Usage: 2

קמל 
Qamal 
Usage: 2

קצב 
Qatsab 
Usage: 2

רבע 
Raba` 
Usage: 3

רבץ 
Rabats 
Usage: 30

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