29 occurrences

'Greater' in the Bible

And Cain said unto Jehovah, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Verse ConceptsBearingStrictnessPunishments

he is not greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Verse ConceptsGodly Fear, Examples OfWhat Sin?

thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

Verse ConceptsPalacesThronePromotionRelative GreatnessRespect For People

And his father refused, and said, I know it , my son, I know it . He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest ChildPeople With General KnowledgeRules About Young People

Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; yea, in the thing wherein they dealt proudly against them.

Verse ConceptsKnowing God, Nature OfArrogance, Punishment OfProud PeopleKnowing God's Character

I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

Verse ConceptsPestilenceGod Might Kill His People

Whither are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsFortified CitiesExaggerationsCitydoubt, results ofdiscouragementHeart, HumanLargenessPessimismSkyHuman EmotionFaint HeartednessGiantsLosing CourageWhere To?Sky, Figurative Use

to drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as at this day.

Verse ConceptsThe Lord Will Drive Them Out

When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;

Verse ConceptsSevenSeven PeopleThe Lord Will Drive Them Out

Hear, O Israel: thou art to pass over the Jordan this day, to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,

Verse ConceptsFortificationsFortified CitiesExaggerationsCityLargenessComparisonsCrossing Into The Promised Landisrael

let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

Verse ConceptsOblivionGod Might Kill His People

then will Jehovah drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

Verse ConceptsThe Lord Will Drive Them Out

that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.

Verse ConceptsCityLargenessFearing Other People

And David waxed greater and greater; for Jehovah, the God of hosts, was with him.

Verse ConceptsPower, HumanGod With Specific PeoplePowerful Individuals

Then Amnon hated her with exceeding great hatred; for the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.

Verse ConceptsHatredSuffering, Causes OfDefraudingMen And Women Who LovedHating Individualsheartbroken

As Jehovah hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.

Verse ConceptsGod With Specific PeopleThe Kingdom Of Solomon

And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, Thy God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne: and the king bowed himself upon the bed.

Verse ConceptsBowingBowing Before GodThe Kingdom Of Solomon

And David waxed greater and greater; for Jehovah of hosts was with him.

Verse ConceptsPower, Human

And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees and chains.

Verse ConceptsChainsOverlaid With Wood

Be strong and of good courage, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him; for there is a greater with us than with him:

Verse ConceptsCourage, In Facing EnemiesdiscouragementBraveryResisting Discouragement

For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went forth throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

Verse ConceptsFameProvinces

Behold, I will answer thee, in this thou art not just; For God is greater than man.

Verse ConceptsGod In Relation To ManMan's Relation To GodGod Being With You

For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid upon her.

Verse ConceptsSodom And GomorrahSudden DestructionGod's People SinningPunishments

Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this , O son of man? thou shalt again see yet greater abominations than these.

Verse ConceptsGrowth Of EvilLooking And Seeing

And from the bottom upon the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

And the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former; and he shall come on at the end of the times, even of years, with a great army and with much substance.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalMany CombatantsReturn From The Northarmy

Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are they better than these kingdoms? or is their border greater than your border?

Verse ConceptsAdvantages

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