583 occurrences in 12 translations

'Find' in the Bible

but the dove could not yet find a place to rest, so it returned to Noah on the ark, since water still covered the land. Noah reached out his hand and took the dove back into the ark with him.

Verse ConceptsFeetStretching OutNot Being StillFeet In ActionNot StillNoah's Flood

and it cometh to pass, in their journeying from the east, that they find a valley in the land of Shinar, and dwell there;

Verse ConceptsFacing EastLiving In The Land

I will go down to see if what they have done justifies the cry that has come up to Me. If not, I will find out.”

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing The WickedInvestigatingOutcry

And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

Verse ConceptsFiftiesNumbers Of Righteous PeopleA Good Man

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

Verse ConceptsFive PeopleFortiesNumbers Of Righteous PeopleShortage Other Than Food

And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

Verse ConceptsThirtyLet Not God Be AngryNumbers Of Righteous PeopleSpeaking To God

And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGod BlindingNot Finding

You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac."

Verse ConceptsBetrothalMarrying RelativesTaking A Wife

"The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath, 'To your descendants I will give this land.' He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamLand, As A Divine GiftOaths, DivineServants, GoodAngels, Ministry To BelieversAngels Going At God's BiddingBringing People Out Of Other PlacesTaking A Wife

but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.'

Verse ConceptsMarrying RelativesRelativesTaking A Wife

He answered, 'The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you. He will make your journey a success and you will find a wife for my son from among my relatives, from my father's family.

Verse ConceptsWalking With GodMarrying RelativesAngels Going At God's BiddingTaking A WifeSuccess Through God

Then I bowed down and worshiped the Lord. I praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right path to find the granddaughter of my master's brother for his son.

Verse ConceptsBowing Heads Before GodGod Has GuidedBlessed Be God!

Then they said, "We'll call the girl and find out what she wants to do."

Verse ConceptsAsking

And Isaac's servants dig in the valley, and find there a well of living water,

Verse ConceptsExcavation

so go find your weapons, take your bow and arrows, go outside, and hunt some game for me.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Uses OfArrows, Uses OfHuntingQuiversArchers, MenArrowsDeergames

But Isaac said to his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?”He replied, “Because the Lord your God worked it out for me.”

Verse ConceptsPeople OvercomingWork Soon Done

Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

Verse ConceptsMarrying RelativesTaking A WifeFathers And Daughters

Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him, "You must not marry a Canaanite woman."

Verse ConceptsSeeing SituationsTaking A WifePeople Who Blessed Others

In the future, you'll be able to verify my honesty because, when you come to check what I've earned, if you find a goat that's not speckled or spotted or a sheep that's not black, then it will have been stolen by me."

Verse ConceptsHonestyBlack AnimalsBlemished CreaturesBlack And White

If you find your gods with anyone here, he will not live! Before our relatives, point out anything that is yours and take it.” Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.

Verse ConceptsApproval To KillRobbing GodsIn Men's Presence

So Laban entered Jacob's tent, Leah's tent, and the tents of the two maid servants, but he didn't find them. Then he left Leah's tent and entered Rachel's tent.

Verse ConceptsTentsNot Finding

Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel’s saddle, and she sat on them. And Laban felt through all the tent but did not find them.

Verse ConceptsHousehold GodsPeople Sitting DownSeeking For Concrete ThingsNot Findinghidingstatues

She said to her father, “Sir, don’t be angry that I cannot stand up in your presence; I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.

Verse ConceptsMenstruationBleedingSeeking For Concrete ThingsNot FindingNot Able To Get Upwomanhood

Now that you've searched all my belongings, what did you find that belongs to your house? Set it here in front of our relatives and we'll let them judge between us!

Verse ConceptsNot FindingIn Men's Presence

And I have oxen, and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight.

Verse ConceptsGoatsCowsOwning LivestockGroups Of SlavesMultitudes Of DonkeysPossessing SheepWealthy People

And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

Verse ConceptsMen's Orders

And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.

Verse ConceptsMeaning

And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.

Verse ConceptsGoing Together

And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

Now a certain man found Joseph, and saw that he was wandering around and had lost his way in the field; so the man asked him, “What are you looking for?”

Verse ConceptsWandererswandering

Later Reuben returned to the cistern to find that Joseph was not in it! He tore his clothes,

Verse ConceptsClothingClothing, Tearing OfTearing Of ClothesThose Who Tore ClothesNowhere To Be Found

When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get back the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.

Verse ConceptsNot FindingNowhere To Be FoundWages Of A ProstitutePossessing Sheep

And he returned to Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said, that there was no harlot in this place.

Verse ConceptsNowhere To Be Found

Judah replied, “Let her keep the items for herself; otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send this young goat, but you couldn’t find her.”

Verse ConceptsNowhere To Be Found

And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?

Verse ConceptsFindingThe Spirit Of GodUnique IndividualsExcellence

"Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for your hungry households and go.

Verse ConceptsPeople Abandoning People

The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and [expecting the worst] they said, “It is because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time [we came] that we are being brought in, so that he may find a reason to accuse us and assail us, and take us as slaves, and seize our donkeys.”

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyLoss Of DonkeysWhy People Did ThingsFear Of Individuals

Joseph said to them, "What did you think you were doing? Don't you know that a man like me can find out things like this by divination?"

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?

for how do I go up unto my father, and the youth not with me? lest I look on the evil which doth find my father.'

Verse ConceptsNot With People

And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

Verse ConceptsSubjectionKept Alive By MenGroups Of SlavesIndividuals Saving Others

Then his sister positioned herself some distance away in order to find out what would happen to him.

Verse ConceptsStanding At A DistanceLooking Intently At PeopleNamed Sisters

Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.

Verse ConceptsNo Reduction

The fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will become foul, and the Egyptians will find difficulty in drinking water from the Nile.”’”

Verse ConceptsFishesSmellsSeeking WaterDeath Of Creatures

Then Pharaoh sent [men to investigate], and not even one of the livestock of the Israelites had died. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened [and his mind was firmly set], and he did not let the people go.

Verse ConceptsHardness Of HeartNot DyingObstinate Individuals

Then Moses led Israel from the Reed Sea and they went to the desert of Shur. They traveled into the desert for three days and did not find water.

Verse ConceptsDeserts, SpecificThree DaysNo Water For PeopleOther References To The Red Sea

And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the LORD: to day ye shall not find it in the field.

Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find any.

Verse ConceptsGathering FoodNot Finding

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water so we may [have something to] drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you tempt the Lord and try His patience?”

Verse ConceptsTestingDisputesTesting GodGiving Food And DrinkProblem PeopleComplaining

If the thief is not caught, the owner of the house shall appear before the judges [who act in God’s name], to determine whether or not he had stolen his neighbor’s goods.

Verse ConceptsFinding Peoplethieves

It will be on Aaron’s forehead so that Aaron may bear the guilt connected with the holy offerings that the Israelites consecrate as all their holy gifts. It is always to be on his forehead, so that they may find acceptance with the Lord.

Verse ConceptsAcceptance, divineAcceptance, From GodForeheadsIncurring GuiltSubstitutionWelcomed By God

Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

Verse ConceptsKnowing God's WaysNationalism

But Moses diligently tried to find the goat [that had been offered] as the sin offering, and discovered that it had been burned up [as waste, not eaten]! So he was angry with Aaron’s surviving sons Eleazar and Ithamar, saying,

Verse ConceptsAnger, HumanAnger, Justified ExamplesBurning SacrificesSeeking For Concrete ThingsNamed People Angry With Others

'And if her hand find not the sufficiency of a sheep, then she hath taken two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, one for a burnt-offering, and one for a sin-offering, and the priest hath made atonement for her, and she hath been cleansed.'

Verse ConceptsLambsPigeonsPoverty, Remedies ForBeing PoorPriests Atoning

Or in case a man has no kinsman, but so recovers his means as to find sufficient for its redemption,

But if his hand does not find enough to refund to him, then {what he has sold} shall be in the buyer's hand until the Year of Jubilee; and it shall go out [of the buyer's hand] in the Jubilee, and he shall return to his property.

Verse ConceptsYearsReversion Of Things

So they traveled from the mountain of the Lord three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord was traveling before them during the three days' journey, to find a resting place for them.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, DescriptionWeights And Measures, DistancesArk Of The Covenant, Names ForThree DaysThe Ark Moved AroundSeeking For Concrete ThingsThings Going BeforeArk Of The Covenant

If this is how you [are] going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery."

Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceUniversality Of DeathDepression, SymptomsUnwise PrayersApproval To Kill Oneself

And the sons of Israel are in the wilderness, and they find a man gathering wood on the sabbath-day,

Verse ConceptsSabbath, In OtIsrael In The WildernessFirewoodSabbath Violated

And the slope of the wadisThat stretches toward the site of ArAnd leans to the border of Moab.”

Please stay here overnight as the others did, so that I may find out what else the Lord has to tell me.”

But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.

Verse ConceptsFindingExposure Of SinBeing Found OutMaking Mistakes

And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:

the one who was constantly going before you to find places for you to set up camp. He appeared by fire at night and cloud by day, to show you the way you ought to go.

Verse ConceptsGuardiansJourneyDivine ManifestationsGod Going BeforeGod Appearing In FireLearning The Right WayCamping During The Exodus

a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Description OfBrass

When you do go across the Jordan River and settle in the land he is granting you as an inheritance and you find relief from all the enemies who surround you, you will live in safety.

Verse ConceptsSafetyCrossing Into The Promised LandTime Of Peace

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God is testing you to find out if you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Verse ConceptsWhole HeartednessFalse Miracles, Nature OfLove For GodMisleading DreamsDo Not Listen!The Need To Love GodFalse Apostles, Prophets And TeachersFinding LoveThe SoulTests

Do the same for his donkey, his garment, and for anything lost that belongs to your fellow countryman. When you find it, you must not ignore it.

Verse ConceptsInstruction About ClothesNo Loss

and accuses her of shameful conduct, and gives her a bad name, saying, ‘I married this woman and was intimate with her, but I didn’t find any evidence of her virginity,’

He has accused her of shameful conduct, saying: “I didn’t find any evidence of your daughter’s virginity,” but here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ They will spread out the cloth before the city elders.

Verse ConceptsDistinctive Clothingaccusationsvirginity

If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

Verse ConceptsLaws Of Sexual UnionDeath Penalty For Sexual SinSex Before MarriageSexual Purityvirginity

But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:

Verse ConceptsCapital Punishment

If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

Verse ConceptsRapeLaws Of Sexual UnionYoung MarriageMarriage Kjvvirginity

When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

Verse ConceptsAdultery and Divorcedivorce, in OTdivorce, amongst believersWritingDomestic ViolenceBills Of DivorceDivorce PermittedTroubling IndividualsSecond MarriageMarriage Between Man And WomanInfidelity

And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

Verse ConceptsHealthHeart, HumanTremblingHuman EmotionRecreationFear Will ComeDespairanxious

When that happens, my anger will burn against them, because they will have abandoned me. I'll hide my face from them, they will be consumed, and many evils and distresses will find them. When this happens, they will say, "These troubles have happened to us because God isn't among us.'

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentAfflictions Of The WickedAnger Of God, ConsequencesReprobatesGod Will Be Angry

Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: "Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho." They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there.

Verse ConceptsAdulteress ExamplesTwoLand, As A Divine GiftProperty, HousesProstitutionSecrecyActing In SecretTwo Other Menexploring

Meanwhile the king's men tried to find them on the road to the Jordan River near the fords. The city gate was shut as soon as they set out in pursuit of them.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsPursuing PeopleShutting GatesFords

“Go to the hill country so that the men pursuing you won’t find you,” she said to them. “Hide yourselves there for three days until they return; afterward, go on your way.”

Verse ConceptsHillsThree DaysEscaping To MountainsHiding From People

So the two men went into the hill country and stayed there three days until the pursuers had returned. They searched all along the way, but did not find them.

Verse ConceptsThree DaysEscaping To MountainsThose Looking For People

and they find Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and fight against him, and smite the Canaanite and the Perizzite.

They were for testing Israel, to find out if they would obey the commandments of the Lord, which He had commanded their fathers through Moses.

Her wise attendants find an answer for her; in fact, she tells the same words to herself:

Verse ConceptsAnswering People

Do they not find? -- they apportion spoil, A female -- two females -- for every head, Spoil of finger-work for Sisera, Spoil of embroidered finger-work, Finger-work -- a pair of embroidered things, For the necks of the spoil!

Verse ConceptsClothembroiderySpoils Of WarDividing The Spoil

Midian's control predominated throughout Israel, and because of Midian the Israelis went out to find temporary hiding places for themselves in the mountains, caves, and fortified places.

Verse ConceptsCavesPower, HumanSelf DefenceStrength, HumanStrongholdsFortsDensEscaping To MountainsPeople In CavesCaves As Places Of Refuge

The bramble said to the trees,“If you really are anointing meas king over you,come and find refuge in my shade.But if not,may fire come out from the brambleand consume the cedars of Lebanon.”

Verse ConceptsCedarShadowsBramblesBurning PlantsPerforming The Truth

And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.

Verse ConceptsDawnMorningThe SunThose Who Rose Early

When this happened, the elders of Gilead went to the territory of Tob to find Jephthah.

But his father and mother said to him, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines for a wife?”But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, because I want her.”

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalBad Decision Making ExamplesMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningUncircumcisionInfatuationIntermarriageLeaving Parents For Spouse

And Samson said unto them, I will now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and thirty change of garments:

Verse ConceptsClothSevenThirtySeven DaysPeople Giving ClothesPartying

The rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her and said to her, "Trick him! Find out what makes him so strong and how we can subdue him and humiliate him. Each one of us will give you eleven hundred silver pieces."

Verse ConceptsCoinageEnticementEnticingTying Up

And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.

Verse ConceptsWhere From?

When the men went back to their clans at Zorah and Eshtaol, their people asked them, “What did you find out?”

Meanwhile, the army of Israel went back to fight the surviving descendants of Benjamin. They attacked the entire city with swords, including its cattle and everyone they could find. Then they set fire to all of the cities that they could find.

Verse ConceptsBurning CitiesBoth Men And Animals Killed

What can we do to find wives for the survivors who remain, since we've already taken an oath in the LORD's presence not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?"

Verse ConceptsWives For Benjamin

And they find out of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who have not known man by the lying of a male, and they bring them in unto the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

Verse ConceptsFour To Five HundredFour And Five Hundred

The leaders of the assembly said, "How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, the Benjaminite women have been wiped out.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersWives For Benjamin

The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningWeepingKissesgoodbyes

And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.

Verse ConceptsGleaning

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

חקר 
Cheqer 
Usage: 12

שׁכח 
Sh@kach (Aramaic) 
Usage: 18

ἀνεξιχνίαστος 
Anexichniastos 
Usage: 2

ἀνευρίσκω 
Aneurisko 
Usage: 1

εὑρίσκω 
heurisko 
find ,
Usage: 130

καταλαμβάνω 
Katalambano 
Usage: 14

μέμφομαι 
memphomai 
Usage: 3

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