356 occurrences

'Long' in the Bible

And not long after, the younger son got together everything which was his and took a journey into a far-away country, and there all his money went in foolish living.

And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?

And he gave the people this story: A man made a vine-garden and gave the use of it to some field-workers and went into another country for a long time.

Keep away from the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes, and to have words of respect said to them in the market-places, and to take the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;

Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.

Now when Herod saw Jesus he was very glad, having for a long time had a desire to see him, for he had had accounts of him, and was hoping to see some wonders done by him.

When Jesus saw him there on the floor it was clear to him that he had been now a long time in that condition, and so he said to the man, Is it your desire to get well?

Then the Jews came round him, saying, how long are you going to keep us in doubt? If you are the Christ, say so clearly.

And they kept coming and saying, Long life to the King of the Jews! And they gave him blows with their hands.

And they gave attention to him, because for a long time his wonder-working powers had kept them under his control.

So they kept there for a long time, taking heart in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his grace by causing signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

And they were with the disciples there for a long time.

For Moses, from times long past, has his preachers in every town, reading his law in the Synagogues every Sabbath.

And there he came across a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by birth, who not long before had come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had given orders that all Jews were to go away from Rome: and he came to them;

And when he had gone up, and had taken the broken bread, he went on talking to them for a long time, even till dawn, and then he went away.

And when we had gone on slowly for a long time, and had had hard work getting across to Cnidus, for the wind was against us, we went under cover of Crete, in the direction of Salmone;

And as a long time had gone by, and the journey was now full of danger, because it was late in the year, Paul put the position before them,

And as we had not seen the sun or stars for a long time, and a great storm was on us, all hope of salvation was gone.

And when they had been without food for a long time, Paul got up among them and said, Friends, it would have been better if you had given attention to me and not gone sailing out from Crete, to undergo this damage and loss.

But they had the idea that they would see him becoming ill, or suddenly falling down dead; but after waiting a long time, and seeing that no damage came to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god.

Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?

For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

Does it not seem natural to you that if a man has long hair, it is a cause of shame to him?

Yes, truly, by your pride in me, my brothers in Christ Jesus our Lord, my life is one long death.

But I am hoping in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be comforted when I have news of you.

But I have faith in the Lord that I myself will come before long.

Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;

I am writing these things to you, though I am hoping to come to you before long;

After a long time, again naming a certain day, he says in David, Today (as he had said before), Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart,

For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.

But, brothers, take kindly the words which I have said for your profit; for I have not sent you a long letter.

And it seems right to me, as long as I am in this tent of flesh, to keep your minds awake by working on your memory;

And be certain that the long waiting of the Lord is for salvation; even as our brother Paul has said in his letters to you, from the wisdom which was given to him;

I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are Apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false;

And the town is square, as wide as it is long; and he took the measure of the town with the rod, one thousand and five hundred miles: it is equally long and wide and high.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἐπιποθέω 
Epipotheo 
Usage: 9

μακροθυμέω 
Makrothumeo 
Usage: 7

στολή 
Stole 
Usage: 5

ארך 
'orek 
length , long , ever , as long as , high
Usage: 95

עד 
`ad 
by, as long, hitherto, when, how long, as yet
Usage: 784

רחק רחוק 
Rachowq 
Usage: 85

אוה 
'avah 
Usage: 26

אף 
'aph 
Usage: 276

ארך 
'arak 
Usage: 34

ארך 
'arek 
Usage: 15

ארך 
'arok 
Usage: 3

בּוּשׁ 
Buwsh 
Usage: 119

חכה 
Chakah 
Usage: 14

ישׁן 
Yashen 
Usage: 19

כּסף 
Kacaph 
Usage: 6

מה מ־ מ־ מה מה 
Mah 
Usage: 751

מתי 
Mathay 
Usage: 40

עד עוד 
`owd 
Usage: 483

עלם עולם 
`owlam 
Usage: 438

עם 
`im 
with, unto, by, as long, neither, from between, from among
Usage: 1061

רב 
Rab 
Usage: 458

רב 
Rob 
Usage: 153

רבה 
Rabah 
Usage: 224

שׁקק 
Shaqaq 
Usage: 6

תּקוה 
Tiqvah 
Usage: 34

ἔκπαλαι 
Ekpalai 
of a long time , of old
Usage: 2

ἐπιπόθητος 
Epipothetos 
Usage: 1

ἔτι 
Eti 
Usage: 75

ἱκανός 
Hikanos 
Usage: 39

κομάω 
Komao 
Usage: 1

μακροθυμία 
Makrothumia 
Usage: 14

μακρός 
Makros 
long , far
Usage: 0

μακροχρόνιος 
Makrochronios 
Usage: 1

μηκέτι 
meketi 
no more , no longer , henceforth not , no , no ... henceforward , hereafter ,
Usage: 16

ὅσος 
Hosos 
Usage: 76

ὅταν 
Hotan 
when , as soon as , as long as , that , whensoever , while , till
Usage: 49

πάλαι 
Palai 
long ago , any while , a great while ago , old , in time past , of old
Usage: 4

πόσος 
Posos 
Usage: 9

πότε 
Pote 
Usage: 7

τοσοῦτος 
Tosoutos 
so much , so great , so many , so long , as large , these many , so many things
Usage: 17

χρονίζω 
Chronizo 
Usage: 2

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