40 occurrences in 12 translations

'Lightly' in the Bible

and he goeth in unto Hagar, and she conceiveth, and she seeth that she hath conceived, and her mistress is lightly esteemed in her eyes.

And Sarai saith unto Abram, 'My violence is for thee; I -- I have given mine handmaid into thy bosom, and she seeth that she hath conceived, and I am lightly esteemed in her eyes; Jehovah doth judge between me and thee.'

And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain [that is, irreverently, in false affirmations or in ways that impugn the character of God]; for the Lord will not hold guiltless nor leave unpunished the one who takes His name in vain [disregarding its reverence and its power].

his corpse doth not remain on the tree, for thou dost certainly bury him in that day -- for a thing lightly esteemed of God is the hanged one -- and thou dost not defile thy ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance.

forty times he doth smite him -- he is not adding, lest, he is adding to smite him above these -- many stripes, and thy brother is lightly esteemed in thine eyes.

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

I will be more lightly esteemed than this and will be humble in my own eyes, but with the maids of whom you have spoken, with them I will be distinguished.”

And the men of Israel answer the men of Judah, and say, 'Ten parts we have in the king, and also in David more than you; and wherefore have ye lightly esteemed us, that our word hath not been first to bring back our king?' And the word of the men of Judah is sharper than the word of the men of Israel.

Gehazi, the attendant of Elisha the man of God, thought: My master has let this Aramean Naaman off lightly by not accepting from him what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.

So now, our God—the great, mighty,and awe-inspiring God who keeps His gracious covenant—do not view lightly all the hardships that have afflicted us,our kings and leaders,our priests and prophets,our ancestors and all Your people,from the days of the Assyrian kings until today.

Better is the lightly esteemed who hath a servant, Than the self-honoured who lacketh bread.

And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.

And he will lift up a banner to the nations afar off, and will hiss for one from the end of the earth; and behold, it will come rapidly and lightly.

Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

And now hath Jehovah spoken, saying, 'In three years, as years of an hireling, Lightly esteemed is the honour of Moab, With all the great multitude, And the remnant is little, small, not mighty!'

There is not thence any more a suckling of days, And an aged man who doth not complete his days, For the youth a hundred years old dieth, And the sinner, a hundred years old, is lightly esteemed.

She took her fornication so lightly that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

And they have healed the breach of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace! when there is no peace.

And they have healed the breach of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, Peace, peace! when there is no peace.

Do not treat us with contempt and condemn us, for Your own name’s sake;Do not disgrace Your glorious throne;Remember [with consideration] and do not break Your [solemn] covenant with us.

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “As My anger and My wrath have been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so My wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. You will become detested, an object of horror, a curse and a people scorned; and you will no longer see this place.”

A sin hath Jerusalem sinned, Therefore impure she hath become, All who honoured her have esteemed her lightly, For they have seen her nakedness, Yea, she herself hath sighed and turneth backward.

All her people are sighing -- seeking bread, They have given their desirable things For food to refresh the body; See, O Jehovah, and behold attentively, For I have been lightly esteemed.

And [it was] the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching lightly {one against the other}, and the sound of the wheels beside them and [the] sound of a great earthquake.

For stood hath the king of Babylon at the head of the way, At the top of the two ways, to use divination, He hath moved lightly with the arrows, He hath asked at the teraphim, He hath looked on the liver.

But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me.

But the one who did not know and did things deserving of blows will be beaten lightly. Much will be required of everyone who has been given much. And even more will be expected of the one who has been entrusted with more.

When I planned this, I did not do it lightly, did I? Are my plans so fickle that I can say "Yes" and "No" at the same time?

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
קלל 
Qalal 
Usage: 82

אור 
'owr 
Usage: 42

אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

אוּר 
'uwr 
Usage: 7

אורה 
'owrah 
Usage: 4

בּרק 
Baraq 
Usage: 21

חזיז 
Chaziyz 
Usage: 3

יפע 
Yapha` 
Usage: 8

ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

לפּד לפּיד 
Lappiyd 
Usage: 14

מארה מאורה מאר מאור 
Ma'owr 
Usage: 19

מחזה 
mechezah 
Usage: 4

מעט מעט 
M@`at 
Usage: 101

נגהּ 
Nogahh 
Usage: 19

נהירוּ נהירo 
N@hiyr (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

נהר 
Nahar 
Usage: 6

נהרה 
N@harah 
Usage: 1

נחת 
Nachath 
Usage: 8

נרה נר ניר נר ניר 
Niyr 
Usage: 48

נפל 
Naphal 
Usage: 434

עלה 
`alah 
up , offer , come , bring , ascend , go , chew , offering , light , increase , burn , depart , put , spring , raised , arose , break , exalted ,
Usage: 890

פּחז 
Pachaz 
Usage: 2

פּחזוּת 
Pachazuwth 
Usage: 1

צנח 
Tsanach 
Usage: 3

קל 
Qal 
Usage: 13

קלה 
Qalah 
Usage: 6

קלקל 
Q@loqel 
Usage: 1

שׁחר 
Shachar 
Usage: 24

שׁקף 
Shaquph 
Usage: 2

ἀμελέω 
ameleo 
neglect , make light of , regard not , be negligent
Usage: 4

ἀποκάλυψις 
Apokalupsis 
Usage: 18

ἅπτω 
Hapto 
Usage: 1

ἀστραπή 
Astrape 
Usage: 5

ἀστράπτω 
Astrapto 
Usage: 1

ἐλαφρία 
Elaphria 
Usage: 1

ἐλαφρός 
Elaphros 
Usage: 1

ἐπιφαίνω 
Epiphaino 
Usage: 4

ἐπιφαύω 
Epiphausko 
Usage: 1

καίω 
Kaio 
Usage: 7

κουφίζω 
Kouphizo 
Usage: 1

λαμπάς 
Lampas 
Usage: 4

λάμπω 
Lampo 
Usage: 4

λύχνος 
Luchnos 
Usage: 4

πίπτω πέτω 
Pipto 
Usage: 56

ταχύ 
Tachu 
Usage: 5

φέγγος 
Pheggos 
Usage: 0

φῶς 
Phos 
Usage: 44

φωστήρ 
Phoster 
Usage: 2

φωτεινός 
Photeinos 
Usage: 1

φωτίζω 
Photizo 
Usage: 10

φωτισμός 
Photismos 
Usage: 2

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