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And Man gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but as for Adam, he found no helpmate, his like.

Verse ConceptsCattleNot FindingMammalsNo HelpRelation Of Animals To ManAnimals Having A SoulBirdsPetslonliness

All the beasts also, and all the worms, and all the fowls, and all that crept upon the earth, went out of the ark, every one unto his like.

He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD."

Verse ConceptsHuntingRecreationLike People In CharacterOld Sayingsfearless

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheHorticultureYielding To TemptationDestruction Of Cities

I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth which, if anyone were able to count the dust of the earth, your descendants would be [so] counted.

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalDust, Figurative UseUncountableNumerous As DustImpossible For People

He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers."

Verse ConceptsIndependenceOpposite SidesWild DonkeysConflictFamily Conflictislam

Now behold, I have two daughters who have not had relations with man; please let me bring them out to you, and do to them whatever you like; only do nothing to these men, inasmuch as they have come under the shelter of my roof.”

Verse ConceptsdaughtersRooftopVirginTwo WomenLeaving People AloneNever Giving UpFather And Daughter RelationshipsProtecting Your FamilyFathers And Daughters

But they replied, "Get out of the way! This man came here as a foreigner, and now he's acting like a judge! So we're going to deal more harshly with you than with them." Then they pushed hard against the man (that is, against Lot), intending to break down the door.

Verse ConceptsSeductionThreateningsSojourningPressingBroken ThingsSuffering From ForeignersWorse

Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law [who were] taking his daughters and said, "Get up! Go out from this place, because Yahweh [is going] to destroy the city!" But {it seemed like a joke} in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

Verse ConceptsBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningJestingPowerlessnessSkepticismSons In Lawjoking

and he looked out over the face of Sodom and Gomorrah, and over all the face of the land of the circuit, and beheld and lo! the smoke of the land went up, like the smoke of a furnace.

Verse ConceptsFurnacesSmokeConflagrationssmoking

and went and sat her down over against him at a distance like as of such as draw the bow, for she said Let me not look upon the death of the child, - So she sat down over against him, and the boy lifted up his voice, and wept

Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveDepression, SymptomsLove, And The WorldFear, Of DeathNot Seeing PeopleSoliloquyFear Of DeathOthers MourningDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A Motherdistance

And the children in her womb jostled each other, and she said, "{If it is going to be like this, why be pregnant}?" And she went to inquire of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsBabies In The WombGrinding PeopleWhy Does This Happen?Fighting One AnotherstruggleLife StrugglesFamily ConflictStrugglesHaving A Baby

Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfAppearances Of God In OtTimes Of People

And I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and I will give to your descendants all these lands. And all nations of the earth will be blessed through your offspring,

Verse ConceptsMultiplyingConsistencyevangelists, identity ofBlessings, To AbrahamMission, Of IsraelBlessing Through God's People

Then make for me tasty food like I love, and bring [it] to me. And I will eat [it] so that I can bless you before I die.

Verse ConceptsTasteRequesting FoodSavourinessBefore DeathLoving Other ThingsPeople Blessing

Go to the flock and take two good young goats from it for me, and I will prepare them [as] tasty food for your father, just as he likes.

Verse ConceptsGoatsAnimals, Types OfSavourinessTwo AnimalsLoving Other Things

So he went and took [them], and brought [them] to his mother, and his mother prepared tasty food as his father liked.

Verse ConceptsSavourinessLoving Other Things

And he did not know him because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. And he blessed him.

Verse ConceptsHairy PeopleNot Recognising PeoplePeople Who Blessed Others

And he drew near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his garments, and he blessed him and said, "Look, the smell of my son [is] like the smell of a field that Yahweh has blessed!

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingNosesContact With PeopleBlessed By GodPeople Who Blessed Others

And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these of the daughters of the land, what good is my life to me?

Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningWearinessWeariness Of Life

And your seed shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. And in you and in your Seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Verse ConceptsConsistencyeastNorthOffspringSpreadingSouthNorth, South, East And WestNumerous As DustBlessing Through God's PeopleBlessings For Jew And Gentile

But in the morning [when Jacob awoke], it was Leah [who was with him]! And he said to Laban, “What is this that you have done to me? Did I not work for you [for seven years] for Rachel? Why have you deceived and betrayed me [like this]?”

Verse ConceptsMorningWhat Do You Do?Those Who Deceived

Then Jacob saw the face of Laban and, behold, {it was not like it had been in the past}.

Verse ConceptsWorseChange

and he said to them, "Look, I see the face of your father, that {it is not like it has been toward me in the past}. But the God of my father is with me.

Verse ConceptsGod With Specific PeopleWorseChange

He's treating us like foreigners. He sold us and spent all of the money that rightfully belonged to us.

Verse ConceptsReckoningReckoned As Foreigners

Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Those Who Deceived

And why did you not allow me to kiss my grandchildren and my daughters [goodbye]? Now you have done a foolish thing [in behaving like this].

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingLove, And The WorldFrustrationgoodbyes

This was my lot for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave for you -- fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

Verse ConceptsdowryCovetousness, Example OfDishonesty, Examples OfThe Number FourteenTen TimesSix YearsTen To Fourteen Years20 To 30 YearsChangeServing Individuals

You have said, ‘I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’”

Verse ConceptsUncountableImpossible For PeopleGod Doing GoodSand And Gravel

And He said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for like a prince you have power with God and with men, and have prevailed.

Verse ConceptsTypes Of ChristChanged NamesGod Naming PeopleGod Renaming PeopleHuman Nature, OvercomingStruggles

Then said Jacob, Nay, I pray thee, if, I pray thee, have found favour in thine eyes, then thou wilt take my present at my hand, - For on this account, hath my seeing thy face been like seeing the face of God in that thou wast well-pleased with me.

Verse ConceptsHeavenly FacesSmiling

Only herein, can we consent to you, - If ye will become like us, by circumcising to you every male,

Verse ConceptsAgreementBecoming Like PeopleConsentNecessity Of Circumcision

But they said, "Shall he treat our sister like a prostitute?"

Verse ConceptsNamed Sisters

then they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty; there was no water in it.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersEmpty ThingsDry Places

And what he did was evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death, like his brother.

Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod Killing IndividualsSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law - Remain a widow in the house of thy father until Shelah my son grow up. For he said, Lest, he also, die, like his brethren. So Tamar went her way, and remained in the house of her father.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessGrowing UpDaughters In LawPossibility Of DeathActual WidowsWaiting Till Marriage

About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law, Tamar, has been acting like a prostitute, and now she is pregnant.”

“Bring her out!” Judah said. “Let her be burned to death!”

Verse ConceptsProstitutionPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSexual Sin, Nature OfTwo To Four MonthsBurning PeopleDeath Penalty For Sexual SinTelling Of People's Situations

She kept on talking to him like this day after day, but he wouldn't listen to her. Not only would he refuse to have sex with her, he refused even to stay around her.

Verse ConceptsImportunity, Towards PeopleAbsence Of SexNot With PeopleSaying Repeatedly

and lo, seven other kine are coming up after them, thin, and of very bad form, and lean in flesh; I have not seen like these in all the land of Egypt for badness.

Verse ConceptsSeven AnimalsUnique CreaturesBad Items

And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find any man like this, in whom the Spirit of God is?

Verse ConceptsFindingThe Spirit Of GodUnique IndividualsExcellence

So Pharaoh said unto Joseph, After God hath made known unto thee all this, there is no one discreet and wise like thee.

Verse ConceptsDiscernment Of GovernorsWisdom, Human NatureUnique IndividualsGod's Things Revealed

And Joseph gathered grain like the sand of the sea, very much, until he quit numbering it; for it was without number.

Verse ConceptsAn Innumerable NumberSandImpossible For PeoplePlenty In EgyptSand And Gravel

Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."

Verse ConceptsPretenceAwarenessBuying FoodRecognising PeopledisguisesWhere From?

Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies.'

Verse ConceptsSpying

For if we had not delayed like this, surely by now we would have returned the second time.”

Verse ConceptsDoing Things TwicePeople Who Delayed

"Your Excellency," they replied, "Why do you speak like this? Far be it from your servants to act like this.

Verse ConceptsFar Be It!

Then Joseph said to them, "What is this deed that you have done? Did you not know that a man who [is] like me surely practices divination?"

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?

But Judah drew near to him and said, "Please my lord, let your servant speak a word in the ears of my lord, and {let not your anger burn} against your servant, for {you are like Pharaoh himself}.

Verse ConceptsEquivalent People

You are to say, Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our early days up to now, like our fathers; in this way you will be able to have the land of Goshen for yourselves; because keepers of sheep are unclean in the eyes of the Egyptians.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsWork From YouthThose Who Kept StockHating PeoplesStock Keeping

Now, therefore thy two sons who were born to thee in the land of Egypt, before I came in unto thee in Egypt, are Ephraim and Manasseh, like Reuben and Simeon, shall be mine.

Verse ConceptsAdoption, nature ofSonsTwo SonsPeople Possessing Other Things

the Angel who redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads. And let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and let them grow like the fishes into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming PeopleAngels Looking After PeopleAngels Providing ProtectionMay God Bless!

So he blessed them that day, saying, Through you Israel shall pronounce blessing, saying, 'May God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.'" So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

Verse ConceptsLike Good PeoplePeople Who Blessed Others

Boiling over like water, thou mayest not have pre-eminence, Because thou didst mount the bed of thy father, - Then, wast thou profane - My marriage-bed, he mounted!

Verse ConceptsFicklenessRash People

Judah [is] a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He bowed down; he crouched like a lion and as a lioness. Who shall rouse him?

Verse ConceptsHuntingLions, Figurative Use OfLionsYoung AnimalVigourCrouchingLike Creatures

"Benjamin is vicious like a wolf; what he kills in the morning he devours in the evening."

Verse ConceptsWolvesIn The MorningDividing PlunderFierce Men

Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear."

And the midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew [women are] not like the Egyptian women, because they [are] vigorous; before the midwife comes to them, they have given birth."

Verse ConceptsVigourNot Like PeopleBirthWomen WorkingHaving A Babychildbearing

And he said, "Who {appointed you as a commander} and a judge over us? [Are] you intending to kill me like you killed the Egyptian?" And Moses was afraid, and he said, "Surely the matter has become known."

Verse ConceptsRulersAttempting To Kill MeThings Revealed

And Yahweh said to him again, "Put your hand into the fold of your garment." And he put his hand into the fold of his garment, and he took it out, and, {to his surprise}, his hand [was] afflicted with a skin disease, like snow.

Verse ConceptsSnowMiracles Of Moses And AaronWhite Spots

And he said, "Return your hand to the fold of your garment." And he returned his hand to the fold of his garment, and he took it out from the fold of his garment, and, {to his surprise}, it was restored like the rest of his body.

Verse ConceptsBodyMiracles Of Moses And Aaron

"You must no longer give straw to the people to make the bricks like {before}. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types of

The slave masters were pressuring them, saying, "Complete your work for each day, just like when there was straw!"

And the foremen of the {Israelites} came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you treat your servants like this?

Verse ConceptsAskingWhy Do You Do This?

The Lord answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Ancestry And GenealogyAaron, PositionValidly Like GodIndividual ProphetsMen As Gods

And the sacred scribes of Egypt did in like manner with their secret arts, - so the heart of Pharaoh waxed bold and he hearkened not unto them, as spake Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsImitating OthersFalse Miracles, Examples OfLying WondersStiffnecked PeopleObstinate Individualsmagic

Moses said, "It will be just as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God. The frogs will leave you, your house, your officials, and your people. They'll remain only in the Nile River."

Verse ConceptsLeavingHouses Under Attack

And the sacred scribes did in like manner with their secret arts, to bring forth the gnats, but they could not. So there came to be gnats, among men and among beasts.

Verse ConceptsSorcery And MagicFliesBoth Men And Animals AffectedUnable To Do Other Thingsmagic

Indeed, this time I'm sending all my plagues against you, your officials, and your people, so you may know that there is no one like me in all the earth.

Verse ConceptsNo One Is Like GodKnowing God's Character

Look, about [this] time tomorrow, I [am] going to cause very severe hail to rain, the like of which has not been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

Verse ConceptsGod's Action TomorrowFoundations Of NationsUnique Things

There was very heavy hail, and lightning was flashing continuously in the midst of the hail. There had not been anything like it in the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

Verse ConceptsFireStormsUnique Things

The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled on all the territory of Egypt in great swarms. There had never been locusts like this before nor would there ever be again.

Verse ConceptsInvasionsUnique CreaturesMany Creatures

There will be a great cry throughout the land of Egypt, like there has never been and never will be again.

Verse ConceptsUnique Events

If an alien who resides with you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, every male in his household must be circumcised, and then he may come near to observe it. He is to be like a native of the land, but no uncircumcised person is to eat it.

Verse ConceptsForeignersExclusivenessUncircumcisionForeigners Permitted At The FeastsCircumcisionStrangers in israelAliens

and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with the waters like a wall to them on their right and their left.

Verse ConceptsGod's ProvisionFigurative Walls

But the Israelis walked through the middle of the sea on dry land, and the water stood like a wall for them on their right and on their left.

Verse ConceptsMoses, Life OfFigurative WallsWalking Through WaterDry Land

In the greatness of your majesty you broke down your enemies. You sent forth your anger, it consumed them like stubble.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfAnger Of God, ConsequencesConfrontationGod Angry With The Nations

By the breath of your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing waters stood up like a hill, the deep waters congealed in the heart of the sea.

Verse ConceptsChaosHeart, HumanNosesRestraintNostrils

"You blew with your breath, and the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty water.

Verse ConceptsBreath Of GodLeadSinkingGod Dispensing Wind

The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water.

Verse ConceptsMeltingGroups Trembling

Terror and dread fell on them; at the greatness of your arm they became silent like the stone, until your people passed by, Yahweh, until [the] people whom you bought passed by.

Verse ConceptsMarketsPassing ThroughPurchasingTypes Of ChristArm Of GodMotionlessnessStaying PutPeople As Rocksgreatnessterrorism

And the layer of dew came up, {and there} on the face of the desert was a fine granular substance, fine like frost on the ground.

Verse ConceptsFrostSmall ThingsCold Weather