3 occurrences
'Empty handed' in the Bible
He has filled the hungry with good things and has sent the rich away empty-handed.
And when the [grape harvest] season came, the owner of the farm sent a slave to the tenant farmers, asking them for the grape harvest [to be delivered to him]. But the tenant farmers beat the slave and sent him away empty handed.
Then he sent out another slave [i.e., to arrange for receiving the crop], but the tenant farmers beat him also, shamefully abused him and sent him away empty handed [as well].
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Empty-Handed (14 instances)