7 occurrences

'Loads' in the Bible

Naaman responded, “If not, please let your servant be given as much soil as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will no longer offer a burnt offering or a sacrifice to any other god but Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsMulesRight SacrificesWeights Of Other Things

Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift: 40 camel-loads of all kinds of goods from Damascus. When he came and stood before him, he said, “Your son, Ben-hadad king of Aram, has sent me to ask you, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

Verse ConceptsGenerosity, HumanPresents

who were rebuilding the wall. The laborers who carried the loads worked with one hand and held a weapon with the other.

Verse ConceptsBurdensconstructionrebuilding

“However, if you listen to Me, says the Lord, and do not bring loads through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day and consecrate the Sabbath day and do no work on it,

Verse ConceptsHolidaySabbath Observed

Won’t all of these take up a taunt against him,with mockery and riddles about him?They will say:Woe to him who amasses what is not his—how much longer?—and loads himself with goods taken in pledge.

Verse ConceptsFraudCovenant breakersPainRidicule, Nature OfRiches, Description OfGuileSocial SelfishnessTransient WealthDo Not StealWoe To The WickedMorality

They tie up heavy loads that are hard to carry and put them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger to move them.

Verse ConceptsFingersYokesBindingJoining ThingsShouldersHeavy BurdensFingers Of PeopleNo Helprelaxationweight

Bible Theasaurus

Burden (137 instances)
Cargo (10 instances)
Encumbrance (2 instances)
Freight (2 instances)
Heaps (31 instances)
Laden (14 instances)
Lashings (1 instance)
Loading (4 instances)
Loads (22 instances)
Mountain (324 instances)
Piles (19 instances)
Stacks (3 instances)

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עמשׂ עמס 
`amac 
Usage: 9

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