169 occurrences in 12 translations

'Fail' in the Bible

And this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house; and of all that thou wilt give me I will without fail give the tenth to thee.

Verse ConceptsHouse Of GodTithesFractions, One TenthObelisksStones As MonumentsBethel The House Of GodTithing ProduceTithes And OfferingGiving Back

And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyShortage Other Than Food

“But his bow remained firm and steady [in the Strength that does not fail],For his arms were made strong and agileBy the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,(By the name of the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdBow And Arrows, Symbol Of StrengthArmsGod, Power OfGod, The RockGod, Titles And Names OfRefugeShepherds, As Kings And LeadersChrist, The ShepherdSoftnessMighty One

If the people avoid dealing with that man when he offers his child to Molech that is, if they fail to execute him

Verse ConceptsBlindness, Symbolic

And if thy brother be waxed poor, and his hand fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a sojourner shall he live with thee.

Verse ConceptsLiberalityethics, socialGenerosity, HumanGenerosity, Used TowardsLove To Others Shown InStrangersPoor PeopleLoving Foreigners

and if you refuse my statutes, loathe my ordinances, and fail to carry out all of my commands, thereby breaching my covenant,

Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodAbhorBreaking The Covenant

then I will do this to you: I will bring terror on you—wasting disease and fever that will cause your eyes to fail and your life to ebb away. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

Verse ConceptsEyes, Affected BydiseasesdisabilitiesVisionPunishment Of the WickedFeverThreateningsSowing In VainEyes HarmedUseless LabourFear Will ComeDepressionSpilling Your Seed On The Groundterrorism

"Here's what you are to do when you all go astray and fail to observe all these commands that the LORD had spoken to Moses,

Verse ConceptsIf You Do Not Keep Commandsignorance

But if you fail to drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, their survivors will become irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, to prick your sides and afflict you in the very land in which you'll be living.

Verse ConceptsThornsWeedsEvil AssociationsNot Driving Them OutEyes HarmedTroubling Groups Of Peopleharassmentlandislam

For God is compassionate. The LORD your God won't fail you. He won't destroy you or forget the covenant that he confirmed with your ancestors."

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentAssurance, basis ofGod's attitude towards peopleMercifulnessGod's MercyGod Remembering His CovenantGod Not ForsakingMercy

Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

Verse ConceptsApproval To KillFirst To ActDeath Of A Family Member

You must do what you are instructed, and the verdict they pronounce to you, without fail. Do not deviate right or left from what they tell you.

Verse ConceptsNot Turning AsideTurning To Right And LeftKeeping Man's Word

you must select without fail a king whom the Lord your God chooses. From among your fellow citizens you must appoint a king -- you may not designate a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites.

Verse ConceptsForeignersStrangersLaws Restricting ForeignersStrangers in israel

When you see your neighbor's ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor.

Verse ConceptsMissing Someonewandering

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.

Verse ConceptsPower, HumanPowerlessnessPeople's Inability To SaveChildren SufferingUnable To Save

Then, when many evils and troubles will have come upon them, this song will serve as a witness against them, since their descendants won't fail to sing it. I know the plan that they are devising even before I bring them into the land that I promised them by an oath."

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingFutureGod's ForeknowledgeNot ForgettingThings As Witnesses

There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Verse ConceptsMidlife CrisisGod Of The FathersTemptation, Universality OfProtection, From GodInvincibilityAble To StandGod Not ForsakingGod With Specific PeoplePowerful Individuals

And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

Verse ConceptsGod, Living And Self sustainingJerusalem, History OfKnowledge, Of GodArmies, Against IsraelGod Is Among You

Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you bondmen, both hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.

Verse ConceptsMan Providing WaterFirewoodCursing The UngodlyGroups Of Slaves

As Jehovah had commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua: he let nothing fail of all that Jehovah had commanded Moses.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In Life Of Believers

And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands,

Verse ConceptsExamples Of ConsecrationTo Be Given Into One's Hands

And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.

And the man of thine whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to cause thine eyes to fail and to grieve thy soul; and all the increase of thy house shall die in their vigour.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Expression OfSorrowUnhappinessWeepingDeath As Punishment

Eli's eyes had begun to fail, so that he was unable to see well. At that time he was lying down in his place,

Verse ConceptsVisionDimness Of VisionLying Down To Rest

And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

Verse ConceptsFightingdiscouragementHeart, HumanHuman EmotionCourage, Examples OfResisting Discouragement

And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.

Verse ConceptsNew Moon FestivalThe Third Day Of The WeekMan's Action TomorrowHiding From People

{So may Yahweh punish Jonathan and more} if {my father decides to do you harm} and if {I fail to disclose it to you} and send word to you that you can go safely. And may Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.

Verse ConceptsGod Be With YouGod With Specific People

If I remain alive, don't fail to show me the LORD's gracious love so that I don't die.

Verse ConceptsSeeking Life

And David inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.

Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodAnswered PrayerOvertakingRecoveryFamily Conflict

Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.

Verse ConceptsLeprosyBodyLackWeakness, PhysicalNo FoodDischargesWithout Strength

That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.

Verse ConceptsHeart, And Holy SpiritWalking In The TruthThroneWatchfulness, Of BelieversWhole HeartednessSaul And David

Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

Verse ConceptsThroneSaul And David

Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.

Verse ConceptsThroneThe Kingdom Of Solomonroyalty

"But if you or your sons ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,

Verse ConceptsDifferent GodsIf You Do Not Keep Commands

For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.

Verse ConceptsElijah, Prophecies OfHelpfulnessProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtBarrelsPlenty For The PoorWeedpot

And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.

Verse ConceptsFlourDivine SuppliesBarrelsPlenty For The Poorcookingpot

He went out to the spring and threw the salt in. Then he said, "This is what the Lord says, 'I have purified this water. It will no longer cause death or fail to produce crops."

Verse ConceptsBad WaterOvercoming DeathRestoring ThingsGod Healing Our LandHealing And ComfortInfertilitypot

Know, then, that not a word the Lord spoke against the house of Ahab will fail, for the Lord has done what He promised through His servant Elijah.”

Verse ConceptsMinistry, Nature OfWords To Individuals Fulfilled

So now, bring to me all the prophets of Baal, as well as all his servants and priests. None of them must be absent, for I am offering a great sacrifice to Baal. Any of them who fail to appear will lose their lives." But Jehu was tricking them so he could destroy the servants of Baal.

Verse ConceptsFollowers Of BaalProphets Of Other Gods

And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsFailture, God Will NeverBeing AfraiddiscouragementInexperienceBraveryGod's Help In DiscouragementStrength Of PeopleGod Not ForsakingCourageCourage And StrengthStaying Strong And Not Giving UpFinishing Strongfearlessfinishing

Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

Verse ConceptsThrone

Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

Verse Conceptsroyalty

"But if you people ever turn away from me, fail to obey the regulations and rules I instructed you to keep, and decide to serve and worship other gods,

Verse ConceptsForsaking God's Things

Whenever your countrymen who live in the cities bring a case before you (whether it involves a violent crime or other matters related to the law, commandments, rules, and regulations), warn them that they must not sin against the Lord. If you fail to do so, God will be angry with you and your colleagues; but if you obey, you will be free of guilt.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesWarning

Take heed now that ye fail not to do this: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

Verse ConceptsNeglecting Duties

And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, HumanOilWheatProviding WineOil On SacrificesSacrificing Cattle Sheep And GoatsSourness

Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.

Verse ConceptsSitting In The GatewayDistinctive Clothing

The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;

Verse ConceptsPurim

And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.

Verse ConceptsMemorial

“For there is hope for a tree,When it is cut down, that it will sprout again,And its shoots will not fail.

Verse ConceptsSproutingAre The Dead Raised?GrowingChange And Growthcutting

As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

Verse ConceptsRiverslakes

“He will fail to bring his grapes to maturity [leaving them to wither unnourished] on the vine,And will cast off blossoms [and fail to bring forth fruit] like the olive tree.

Verse ConceptsOlives

He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

Verse ConceptsReward, HumanFlatteryGiving Information

Why do the nations rebel? Why are the countries devising plots that will fail?

Verse ConceptsFutilityOutsidersRageEvil PlansHeathenWhat Foreigners DoUseless Words And Thinking

{To the chief Musician upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.} Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodNames And Titles For The ChristianEvil TimesPeople Passing AwayGod Help!Causes of failure inGodly ManA Good Man

Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

Verse ConceptsBeing ForsakenGod's PromisesEnd Of Actions

Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

Verse ConceptsBetrayalBetrayal, God Never WillLovingkindnessGod Shows His Lovingkindness

Teach me, LORD, about the way of your statutes, and I will observe them without fail.

Verse ConceptsScripture TeachingTo The EndI Keep The Commandmentsstatues

Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.

Verse ConceptsEyes HarmedGod's Word Is Righteous

When you make a promise to God, don't fail to keep it, since he isn't pleased with fools. Keep what you promise

Verse ConceptsProcrastinationGod's Attitude To FoolsMaking VowsNot Pleasing GodThe promises of GodPromisesMaking Mistakesfulfillment

Even when a fool walks along the road, his [common] sense and good judgment fail him and he demonstrates to everyone that he is a fool.

Verse ConceptsLifestylesAspects Of People Made Known

Otherwise, when the sun, daylight, moon, or stars turn dark, or when clouds fail to return after the rain

Verse ConceptsClouds, Natural UseLooking Through WindowsOvertaken By DarknessDarkening Sun Moon And StarsSunshineThe Moon

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

Verse ConceptsGrasshoppersFeeblenessMournersAlmond TreesAcrophobiaSlownessWhite HairMourning DeathCondition Of The SpiritFear Will Comeenergymarketing

Devise a plan; it will fail.Make a prediction; it will not happen.For God is with us.

Verse ConceptsBattlesGod, Purpose OfPlansStriving With GodGod With YouTragedyGod's Plan For Uspositivity

Therefore, all hands do fail, And every heart of man doth melt.

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman EmotionLosing Courage

And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

Verse ConceptsadvisersHuman EmotionGuidance, Need For God'sHeart, HumanMediumsPessimismPlansSpiritsDivinationNecromancyLosing CourageOccultismOccult Being Powerless Before God

And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

Verse ConceptsWaters Drying UpRiver NileRiversCauses of failure in

For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:

Verse ConceptsendThe Glory Of ManOne YearLosing Honour

For the bed is too short to stretch out on,And the blanket is too narrow to wrap around oneself [and likewise all their preparations are inadequate].

Verse ConceptsCovering The BodyNarrownessAccommodationsSmall ThingsBeds

Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SpiritAliancesStumblingTrusting In Man, Warnings AgainstGod's HandLimitations Of The BodyGod's Hands Stretched OutDanger From MenNatural Disasters

For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfMind, The HumanMorality, And CreationSin, Nature OfHypocrites, Description OfMischiefBeing MisleadStingy PeopleErrorHypocrisy

Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

Verse ConceptsHarvestUnfruitfulnessAfflictions Of The WickedVintageOne Year

Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SpiritUnity, Of God's PeopleStudentsBible, Names OfThe Holy Spirit In CreationNothing MissingOld Testament Claims InspirationMissing SomeoneReading The BibleSoulmatesgatheringseekinghomecoming

Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Verse ConceptsdovesdiscouragementPrayer In DiscouragementSwallowsCauses of failure in

He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

Verse ConceptsHope, As ConfidenceHope, In GodIslandsSpirit Of ChristGod Doing RightDoing RightNot Discouragedcredibility

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfFalse ReligionRefugeIdols Not ExistingVanityUnprofitable SinsUseless PeopleShame Of IdolatryimageHinduism

Causing the omens of boasters to fail,Making fools out of diviners,Causing wise men to draw backAnd turning their knowledge into foolishness,

Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfIntelligenceWisdom, Source Of HumanThe Vanity Of Human KnowledgeFalse WisdomFrustrationCounted As Fools

The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

Verse ConceptsPeople Releasing Others

For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of LifeAnger Of God, Saved FromGod Giving BreathGod SuingGod Will No More Be AngryDespairbreath

"On that day," declares the LORD, "the courage of the king and the leaders will fail. The priests will be appalled and the prophets astounded."

Verse ConceptsPessimismAstonishmentProphecy AbolishedLosing CouragePeople Appalled

And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Characteristics OfHaving No BreathWild Donkeys

Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave the highland crags?Or does cold water flowing from a distance ever fail?

Verse ConceptsSnowCold, Figurative UseAbandoning Things

But the Lord is with me to help me like an awe-inspiring warrior. Therefore those who persecute me will fail and will not prevail over me. They will be thoroughly disgraced because they did not succeed. Their disgrace will never be forgotten.

Verse ConceptsStumblingSuffering, Encouragements InWarriorsNot ForgettingGod With Specific PeopleGod As A WarriorShame Will ComeCauses of failure inMighty in its influenceDisappointmentMotivationadvertisingprospering

Bible Theasaurus

Betray (35 instances)
Elude (2 instances)
Violate (24 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
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אבד 
'abad 
Usage: 184

אזל 
'azal 
gone , fail , gaddest about , to and fro , spent
Usage: 6

אמן 
'aman 
Usage: 108

אפס 
'aphec 
Usage: 5

בּקק 
Baqaq 
Usage: 9

גּעל 
Ga`al 
Usage: 10

דּלל 
Dalal 
Usage: 9

חדל 
Chadal 
Usage: 58

חסר 
Chacer 
Usage: 22

חסר 
Chacer 
Usage: 18

כּהה 
Kahah 
Usage: 8

כּזב 
Kazab 
lie , liar , vain , fail
Usage: 17

כּחשׁ 
Kachash 
Usage: 23

כּלה 
Kalah 
Usage: 207

כּלה 
Kaleh 
Usage: 1

כּלּיון 
Killayown 
Usage: 2

כּרת 
Karath 
Usage: 287

כּשׁל 
Kashal 
Usage: 62

נפל 
Naphal 
Usage: 434

נשׁת 
Nashath 
Usage: 3

עדר 
`adar 
Usage: 11

עזב 
`azab 
Usage: 28

עטף 
`ataph 
Usage: 16

רפה 
Raphah 
feeble , fail , weaken , go , alone , idle , stay , slack , faint , forsake , abated , cease ,
Usage: 46

שׁבת 
Shabath 
Usage: 71

שׁלוּת שׁלוּ 
Shaluw (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

שׁקר 
Shaqar 
Usage: 6

תּמם 
Tamam 
Usage: 63

ἀνέκλειπτος 
Anekleiptos 
not to fail
Usage: 0

ἀποψύχω 
Apopsucho 
Usage: 0

ἐκλείπω 
Ekleipo 
Usage: 1

ἐκπίπτω 
Ekpipto 
Usage: 11

ἐπιλείπω 
Epileipo 
Usage: 1

πίπτω πέτω 
Pipto 
Usage: 56

ὑστερέω 
Hustereo 
lack , be behind , want , come short , be in want , fail , come behind , be destitute ,
Usage: 13

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