235 occurrences

'Long' in the Bible

It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

Verse ConceptsLooking Through WindowsAfter A Long TimeSportshugs

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Verse ConceptsHumilityBefore People ActWorshipping GodHumbling Oneself

Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve Yahweh, their God. Don't you yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"

Verse ConceptsMan TrappingBefore People ActWorshipping God

Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

Verse ConceptsBefore People ActThey Do Not Keep Commands

No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain."

Verse ConceptsHornsMusical Instruments, types ofRamsThrowing StonesDeath As PunishmentNot TouchingTrumpets For SignallingBoth Men And Animals KilledInstructions About Stoning

"You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits.

Verse ConceptsBreadthBuildingHeightWoodSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureSacrifice On The Bronze AltarSetting Up The Bronze Altar

"You shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side:

Verse ConceptsLinenMaking The TabernacleLinen Items

Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and its pillars twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

Verse ConceptsTwentyPillars For The TabernacleBronze Items For The Tabernacle

You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.

Verse ConceptsBlessings, To IsraelOld ThingsMoving OnMoving To A New Placespace

Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

Verse ConceptsSabbatical Year

As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.

"'All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come on his head, until the days are fulfilled, in which he separates himself to Yahweh. He shall be holy. He shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow long.

Verse ConceptsHairsShavingRazorsLong ThingsCutting HairDedicationHairdreadlocks

At the commandment of Yahweh, the children of Israel traveled, and at the commandment of Yahweh they encamped. As long as the cloud remained on the tabernacle they remained encamped.

Verse ConceptsSetting OutCamping During The ExodusGod's Orders

Yahweh said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

Verse ConceptsImpenitence, Warnings AgainstMiracles, Responses ToQuestionsUnbelieversNot Believing SignsBefore People ActDoubting God

"How long [shall I bear] with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

Verse ConceptsFaultsGod, Patience OfHearingRejection Of GodGod, All knowingGrumblingBefore God ActsComplaining

how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

Verse ConceptsPeople Actually Doing EvilStaying A Long Time

The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Was I ever in the habit of doing so to you?" He said, "No."

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyRiding DonkeysPeople Possessing Other Things

"Yahweh our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying, You have lived long enough in this mountain:

Verse ConceptsActionsMoving On

When you shall father children, and children's children, and you shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make an engraved image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh your God, to provoke him to anger;

Verse ConceptsProvokingIdols

Take heed to yourself that you don't forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

Verse ConceptsMastersNeglectPeople Not AbandoningTaking Care Of The Earth

If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall bless you;

Verse ConceptsFar From HereTithes And OfferingMoney Blessingsdistancefriendliness

lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.

Verse ConceptsMan AvengingNot HatingDeath Of A Family Member

When you shall besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them; for you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of you?

Verse ConceptsRespect, For EnvironmentEcological ConcernsFortsTreesFelling TreesSharp ToolsHarming Trees

You shall have a perfect and just weight. You shall have a perfect and just measure, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Verse ConceptsJust WeightsAccuracyHow To Live Longweightmeasurement

then Yahweh will make your plagues wonderful, and the plagues of your seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, and of long continuance.

Verse ConceptsDiseaseIllness

and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it."

Verse ConceptsLearningFathers, Responsibilities Ofdiscipline, in the familyInexperienceKnowing God, Nature OfCrossing Into The Promised Land

Of Benjamin he said, "The beloved of Yahweh shall dwell in safety by him. He covers him all the day long. He dwells between his shoulders."

Verse ConceptsSolutions To InsecurityRest, PhysicalSafetyShouldersGod's Love For Israel

It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him."

Verse ConceptsFortificationsShoutingWallsBattle CriesThings Falling

These wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey."

Verse ConceptsShoesThings Wearing OutUnusedWineskins And Vats

Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.

Verse ConceptsAction For A Long Time

Joshua said to the children of Israel, "How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersBefore People Act

"Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera's mother looked through the lattice. 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?'

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldLooking Through WindowsPeople Who Delayed

Eli said to her, "How long will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you."

Verse ConceptsDo Not Get Drunkalcoholismdrunkards

Therefore also I have granted him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is granted to Yahweh." He worshiped Yahweh there.

Verse ConceptsDedicationBeing Devoted to GodGiving Backlent

It happened, from the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after Yahweh.

Verse Concepts20 To 30 YearsStaying A Long Time

Samuel said to all the people, "You see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?" All the people shouted, and said, "[Long] live the king!"

Verse ConceptsVoicesGroups ShoutingUnique Individuals

Yahweh said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons."

Verse ConceptsCivil authoritiesHornsLeaders, PoliticalMissionaries, Task OfRejection Of God, Results OfHorns Of AnimalsAnointing KingsGod Abandoning IndividualsBefore People ActMourning In RegretSaul And DavidRejectionLeadership Qualitiesgrievingsaul

For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!"

Verse ConceptsRivalrySaul And David

You shall tell him, 'Long life to you! Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.

Verse ConceptsHealthSalutationsFamily First

But the men were very good to us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields.

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As Occupations

David said to Achish, "But what have I done? What have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?"

Verse ConceptsWhat Sin?

Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?"

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleEternal Judgement

Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: and David grew stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.

Verse ConceptsDavid, Reign OfHousesWarfare, Examples OfWarfare, Nature OfWeakness, PhysicalStrong IndividualsWithout StrengthCivil WarWarBattle

Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, "Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don't anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.

Verse ConceptsAnointing With OilBereavement, Expression OfMourningOintmentUnhappinessAnointing OneselfPretendingDistinctive Clothing

It happened, when Hushai the Archite, David's friend, had come to Absalom, that Hushai said to Absalom, "Long live the king! Long live the king!"

Verse ConceptsDuplicating WordsHurt And Betrayal

For he is gone down this day, and has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and the captains of the army, and Abiathar the priest. Behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and say, 'Long live king Adonijah!'

Verse ConceptsFeasting

Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel. Blow the trumpet, and say, 'Long live king Solomon!'

Verse ConceptsTrumpetAnointing KingsTrumpets For CelebrationNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, "Long live king Solomon!"

Verse ConceptsAnointing, Performed OnCeremoniesHornsMusical Instruments, types ofOilShoutingTrumpetThe Act Of AnointingAnointing KingsTrumpets For Celebration

God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, neither have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;

Verse ConceptsGetting RichDiscernmentNatural Disasters

The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Chambers

The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there they are to this day.

Verse ConceptsLong ThingsPlaces To This Day

Elijah came near to all the people, and said, "How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." The people answered him not a word.

Verse ConceptsChoicesdoubt, results ofdouble mindednessChallengesChoosingHesitationIndecisionOpinionsPublic OpinionSyncretismSkepticismDivided HeartsIndividuals Being SilentTwo Intangible ThingsThe Lord [Yahweh] Is Godfollowing

It happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, "Is it peace, Jehu?" He answered, "What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?"

Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryMothers, Examples OfMothers Of KingsAvoid Sorcerywitchesjezebel

Then he brought out the king's son, and put the crown on him, and [gave him] the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, "Long live the king!"

Verse ConceptsClappingCrowns, Worn ByHead coveringHeraldHigh Priest, In OtAnointing, Performed OnCoronationsApplauseAnointing KingsMaking Kings

Haven't you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

Verse ConceptsGod, Purpose OfDestruction Of CitiesGod Planning Of OldUnhearingGod's Plans

God said to Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of those who hate you, neither yet have asked long life; but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you may judge my people, over whom I have made you king:

Verse ConceptsAffluenceMaking DecisionsWealth And Prosperity

The wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one [cherub] was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was [likewise] five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

Verse ConceptsCherubim

The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there it is to this day.

Verse ConceptsLong ThingsPoles

(for Solomon had made a bronze scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and on it he stood, and kneeled down on his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;)

Verse ConceptsKneelingPrayer, Practicalities OfBronze Items For The Tabernacle

that they may fear you, to walk in your ways, so long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Kinds OfGod, Titles And Names OfGod Is TruthfulTeachersSpiritual Destitutionpriests

Then they brought out the king's son, and put the crown on him, and [gave him] the testimony, and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him; and they said, "Long live the king!"

Verse ConceptsHead coveringVoicesCoronations

He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God: and as long as he sought Yahweh, God made him to prosper.

Verse ConceptsIrreverenceFormulas For SuccessReverence, And BlessingSuccessSports

to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths: [for] as long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtSeventy70 To 80 Years

The king said to me (the queen was also sitting by him), "For how long shall your journey be? And when will you return?" So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

Verse ConceptsJourneyQueensBefore People ActWhen?People Sending People

Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

Verse ConceptsEnvy, Example OfSitting In The Gateway

"Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,

Verse ConceptsDesire For DeathHear Prayer!

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

Verse ConceptsSalivaGod Seeing All PeopleLeave Us Alone

"How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

"How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

Verse ConceptsMere Talk

You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? Selah.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsUseless ThingsTrust, Lack OfAvoiding DeceitLoving EvilPsalm Interjections

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?

Verse ConceptsUnhappiness

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

Verse ConceptsWaiting On GodAttitudes Of HopeGod My SalvationThose Who Wait For GodGod's TruthguidanceWaiting On The Lord

When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Verse ConceptsDecayWasteConviction Of SinConfession of sin

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

Verse ConceptsDoubting God's ConcernLionsRescueProlonged AfflictionsDeliverance From LionsBefore God Acts

My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long. For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsJustification, Necessity OfPraiseSpeech, Positive Aspects OfTonguePraise, Should Be Offered ByUnceasing Praise

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His seed is blessed.

Verse ConceptsCharacter Of SaintsBlessing Through God's People

I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all day long.

Verse ConceptsBowingBent OverOthers MourningMental IllnessDepression

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

Verse ConceptsDeception In Fallen Human NaturePersecution, Forms OfEvil PlansTrapCharacter Of WickedMan TrappingAll DayAttempting To Kill Me

In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah.

Verse ConceptsBoasting, LegitimateAll DayBoasting In GodPsalm InterjectionsWe Thank GodA New DayThanks

All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,

Verse ConceptsdisgraceShameSin, Effects OfAll DayShame Has Come

Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

Verse ConceptsSheepKilling The InnocentAll Day

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

Verse ConceptsMusicThose OppressedAll Day

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

Verse ConceptsPride, Results OfMany EnemiesAll DayEnemy Attacksharassment

How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

Verse ConceptsEvil PlansWalls

My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me. By Solomon.

Verse ConceptsConfusionTongueHurt

They shall fear you while the sun endures; and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsMoonEternal LoyaltyFear Of ChristSun Moon And Stars Before GodThe Moon

They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long.

Verse ConceptsGoldUnceasingAlways PraisingIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyPrayer During Hard Times

His name endures forever. His name continues as long as the sun. Men shall be blessed by him. All nations will call him blessed.

Verse ConceptsConsistencyMission, Of IsraelBlessing Through God's People

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Strong's
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