'Once' in the Bible

And let me bring a piece of bread, then refresh {yourselves}. Afterward you can pass on, {once} you have passed by with your servant." Then they said, "Do so as you have said."

And {once again he spoke} to him and said, "What if forty are found there?" And he answered, "I will not do [it] on account of the forty."

And he said, "Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak only once more. What if ten are found there?" And he answered, "I will not destroy [it] for the sake of the ten."

Once Jacob cooked a thick stew, and Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted.

And once again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. And he was in Chezib when she bore him.

And they said, "Please, my lord, we surely came down once before to buy food,

But if you destroy this people {all at once}, the nations that will have heard your message will say,

You will march around the city, all the warriors circling the city once; you will do so for six days.

And the ark of Yahweh went around the city, {circling once}, and they came [into] the camp and spent the night in the camp.

And they marched around the city once on the second day, and they returned [to] the camp. They did [this] for six days.

So Yahweh left those nations; he did not drive them out at once, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.

And Gideon said to God, "{Do not let your anger burn} against me; let me speak once more. Please let me test once more with the fleece; let the fleece be dry, and let there be dew on the ground."

Once again Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the {Ammonites},

and Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, [was] standing {before it} [to minister] in those days), saying, "Should we go out once more to battle against the descendants of Benjamin our relatives, or should we stop?" And Yahweh said, "Go up tomorrow; I will give them into your hand."

But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, "Once the boy [is] weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear before Yahweh; and he will remain there forever."

So Abner said to Asahel {once again}, "{For your own sake}, turn aside {from following me}. Why should I strike you down to the ground? How could I {show my face} to Joab your brother?"

{Once again} [the] Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

Once again there [was] battle at Gath, and there [was] {a man of great size}. The fingers of his hand and the toes of his feet [were] six and six, twenty-four in number. He [was] also born to the Raphah.

For the fleet of Tarshish belonged to the king [and was] on the sea with the fleet of Hiram; once every three years the fleet of Tarshish used to come carrying gold and silver, ivory, apes, and baboons.

For the ships of the king went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram. Once {every three years} the ships of Tarshish came carrying gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

So the merchants and the sellers of merchandise spent the night outside of Jerusalem once or twice.

Once I have spoken, and I will not answer; even twice, but I will not proceed."

In peace I will lie down and sleep {at once}, for you alone, O Yahweh, make me dwell safely.

Once God has spoken; twice I have heard this: that strength [belongs] to God.

Once I have sworn by my holiness, 'I will surely not lie to David,

Do not be terrified of his presence! Go at once and do not delay when a matter [is] unpleasant, for he can do anything that he desires.

{And then} after my driving them out, I will once again have compassion on them, and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance, and each one to his land.

How desolate the city sits [that] was full of people! She has become like a widow, [once] great among the nations! Like a woman of nobility in the provinces, she has become a forced laborer.

They answered once more and said, "Let the king tell the dream to his servants and we will make the explanation known."

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold {all at once} broke into pieces and they became like chaff from the summer threshing floor, and the wind carried them away and any trace of them could not be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and it filled the whole earth.

Where [now] [is] the den of [the] lions and [the] cave of the fierce lions? There the lioness, the cub, and the lion once {prowled}, {and no one disturbed them}.

For thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Once again, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and dry land.