18 occurrences in 13 translations

'Middle' in the Bible

Your servant [is] in the middle of your people whom you have chosen; a great people who cannot be counted or numbered because of abundance.

Verse Conceptselection, privileges ofBlessings, To AbrahamPeople Of God, In OtUncountableMany In Israel

She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was asleep. She laid him at her breast, and she put her dead son in my arms.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersMidnightCorpses Of Other People

The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Chambers

The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.

Verse ConceptsStairwaysRight SidesSteps

Now [in] the inner sanctuary in the middle of the temple he prepared the inside to place the ark of the covenant of Yahweh there.

Verse ConceptsMost Holy PlaceSanctuaryThe Ark In The Temple

Then he put the cherubim inside the inner temple. Since their wings were spread out, the first one’s wing touched one wall while the second cherub’s wing touched the other wall, and in the middle of the temple their wings were touching wing to wing.

Verse ConceptsWallsAngel's Wings

It was supported on twelve oxen, with their back parts turned to the middle of it, three of them facing to the north, three to the west, three to the south, and three to the east; the vessel was resting on top of them.

Verse ConceptsWestThree AnimalsFacing NorthNorth, South, East And WestTwelve Animals

The wheels were made like carriage-wheels, the rods on which they were fixed, the parts forming their edges, their rods and the middle points of them, were all formed out of liquid metal.

For they are Your people and Your inheritance;You brought them out of Egypt,out of the middle of an iron furnace.

Verse ConceptsFurnacesIronGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.

Verse ConceptsCourtyardFatnessGrainSmall ThingsSacrifice On The Bronze AltarFat Of The SacrificesMaking Cereal Offerings And LibationsCourts Of The Temple

The sister of Tahpenes bore Genubath his son for him, and Tahpenes weaned him in the middle of the house of Pharaoh. Genubath was [in] the house of Pharaoh in the midst of the children of Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsWeaningAdoption

Not long after the man of God had left, a lion met him along the road and killed him. His body was left lying in the middle of the road with the donkey standing beside it and with the lion also standing next to the body.

Verse ConceptsRoadsAnimals KillingCorpses Of Other PeopleDeath

When some men passed by and noticed the body lying in the middle of the road and the lion standing beside the body, they went straight to the city and told what had happened in the city where the old prophet lived.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Happenings

So they took the ox which was given them, and made it ready, crying out to Baal from morning till the middle of the day, and saying, O Baal, give ear to us. But there was no voice and no answer. And they were jumping up and down before the altar they had made.

Verse ConceptsLeapingdanceMorning WorshipMorningReligionPeople JumpingOthers Not AnsweringHinduism

And in the middle of the day, Elijah made sport of them, saying, Give louder cries, for he is a god; he may be deep in thought, or he may have gone away for some purpose, or he may be on a journey, or by chance he is sleeping and has to be made awake.

Verse ConceptsGod, As SpiritHourHumourIronyRidicule, Nature OfSleep, SpiritualFundistractionsawakeningjokingvacation

And from the middle of the day they went on with their prayers till the time of the offering; but there was no voice, or any answer, or any who gave attention to them.

Verse ConceptsFutilityFalse ReligionAction Until EveningOthers Not AnsweringTime Passing

And in the middle of the day they went out. But Ben-hadad was drinking in the tents with the thirty-two kings who were helping him.

Verse Conceptsdrinking, abstention fromNoonTentsDrunkenness, Examples OfThirty SomeDrunk IndividualsPartying

As the king was passing by, he cried out to the king and told him, "Your servant went out into the middle of the battle, and a soldier turned aside, brought a prisoner to me, and told me, "Guard this man. If he turns up missing for any reason at all, you'll pay for it with your life or be fined one talent of silver.'

Verse ConceptsCoinageEquality Of PunishmentFine As PenaltyMissing SomeoneTalents

Bible Theasaurus

Average (1 instance)
Center (51 instances)
Center (51 instances)
Central (3 instances)
Centre (8 instances)
Halfway (6 instances)
Mediate (3 instances)
Mediterranean (42 instances)
Medium (8 instances)
Middle (266 instances)
Midway (3 instances)

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