74 occurrences

'Opposite' in the Bible

And he took for him all these and cut them in pieces down the middle. And he put each piece opposite {the other}, but the birds he did not cut.

Verse ConceptsKnivesFractions, One HalfOpposite SidesHalf Of BodiesBirdscutting

They settled from Havilah to Shur, which [was] opposite Egypt, going toward Asshur, opposite; he {settled} opposite all his brothers.

Verse ConceptsOpposite Sides

"Speak to the {Israelites} so that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol {and the sea}; before Baal Zephon, [which is] opposite it, you will camp by the sea.

Verse ConceptsCamping During The ExodusComing To The Red Sea

You will make fifty loops on the one curtain, and you will make fifty loops on the end of the curtain that [is] in the second set; the loops are to be opposite {to one another}.

Verse ConceptsFiftiesOpposite Sides

And you will place the table outside the curtain and the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle, and you will put the table on the north side.

Verse ConceptsTablesShowbread

And you will make two gold rings for it; under its molding {on two opposite sides} you will make [them] as {holders} for poles to carry it with them.

Verse ConceptsRingsAltar Of IncenseCarrying Holy ThingsGold Items For The Tabernacl

And the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, and the people gathered opposite Aaron, and they said to him, "Come, make for us gods who will go before us, because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him."

Verse ConceptsGoadsdoubt, results ofImpatienceMonotonyAaron, Sins OfAaron, CharacterGod Going BeforePeople Who DelayedBringing Israel Out Of EgyptOthers Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptWaiting For God's Timingcats

And no one will go up with you, and neither let anyone be seen on all the mountain, nor let the sheep and goats and the cattle graze {opposite} that mountain."

Verse ConceptsActing AloneEmpty Places

He made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the end of the curtain that [was] in the second set; the loops were opposite {one to another}.

Verse ConceptsFiftiesOpposite Sides

And he made for it two gold rings under its molding {on two opposite sides} as {holders} for poles to carry it with them.

Verse ConceptsRingsAltar Of IncenseCarrying Holy ThingsGold Items For The Tabernacl

And he placed the lampstand in the tent of assembly opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle.

He sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor [at] Pethor, which [is] by the river, in the land of the children of his people, to summon him, saying, "Look! A people went out from Egypt. Look! They cover {the surface of the land}; they [are about] to dwell opposite me.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyMessengers Sent Out

These [are] the words that Moses spoke to all [of] Israel {on the other side of} the Jordan in the desert, in the desert plateau opposite Suph, between Paran and between Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab.

Verse ConceptsBeyond Jordan

So we remained in the valley opposite Beth Peor.

Verse ConceptsValleys

beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth Peor in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who [was] reigning in Heshbon [and] whom Moses and the {Israelites} defeated {when they came out of Egypt}.

Verse ConceptsdefeatLeaving EgyptBeyond JordanGay Marriage

(Are they not beyond the Jordan, {toward the west}, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Jordan Valley, opposite Gilgal beside the terebinth of Moreh?)

Verse ConceptsThe SunWestOaksBeyond Jordan

"Go up to this mountain of the Abarim [range], Mount Nebo, which [is] {opposite Jericho}, and see the land of Canaan that I [am] giving to the {Israelites} as possession.

Verse ConceptsGoing Up Mountains

Then Moses went up from the desert plateau of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, {which is opposite} Jericho, and Yahweh showed him all of the land, Gilead [all the way] up to Dan,

And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor. But until this day no one knows his burial site.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheMoses, Life OfSepulchresAnonymityPlaces To This DayBurying places

the waters flowing down from above stood [still]; they stood up [in] one heap very far from Adam, the city that [is] beside Zarethan, while [the waters] flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, {were completely cut off}; and the people crossed [over] opposite Jericho.

Verse ConceptsDead SeaCrossing Into The Promised LandRoses

And it happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, {he looked up}, and he saw a man standing {opposite him} [with] his sword drawn in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said, "Are you with us, or with our adversaries?"

Verse ConceptsStandingGod's Sword

and the border goes up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and to the north, turning to Gilgal, which [is] opposite the ascent of Adummim, which [is] south of the wadi; and the border passes on to the waters of En Shemesh, and it ends at En Rogel.

Then the border goes up [by] the Valley of Ben Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusites from [the] south (that [is], Jerusalem); and the border goes up to the top of the mountain that [lies] opposite the valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the end of the valley of Rephaim to the north;

Verse ConceptsValleys

The border of Manasseh was from Asher [to] Micmethath, which [is] opposite Shechem; then the border goes to the south, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.

Then the border changes direction and turns to the western side southward, from the mountain that {is opposite} Beth-Horon to the south. {It ends} at Kiriath Baal (that [is], Kiriath Jearim), a town belonging to the descendants of Judah. This [is the] western side.

Verse ConceptsWestern Borders

the border goes down to the foot of the mountain, which [is] opposite the Valley of Ben Hinnom, which [is] in the valley of Rephaim to the north; then it does down the valley of Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusites to the south, and then it goes down [to] En Rogel.

Verse ConceptsValleysLandmarksGiants

It changes direction from [the] north, and it continues [to] En Shemesh; it goes out to Geliloth, which [is] opposite the ascent of Adummim, and it goes down [to] the stone of Bohan, son of Reuben.

Verse ConceptsStones As Monuments

It passes [on] to the slope opposite the Arabah to the north, and it goes down to the Arabah.

Their border goes up to the west, to Maralah; it touches Dabbesheth, then the wadi that [is] opposite Jokneam.

Me Jarkon, Rakkon, with the border opposite Joppa.

But the man was not willing to spend the night, and he got up and went; and he arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). [He had] with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine.

Verse ConceptsPeople Unwilling

They surrounded Benjamin; they pursued them without rest [and] trod them down opposite Gibeah to the east.

The one crag on the north [was] opposite Micmash and the other on the south [was] opposite Geba.

He turned around from him to another opposite [him] and {he spoke to him in the same way}, and the people {answered him as before}.

Verse ConceptsAnswering People

The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "[Is] not David hiding on the hill of Hakilah opposite Jeshimon?"

Verse ConceptsHiding From PeopleTelling Of Movements

Now Saul was on the hill of Hakilah, which [is] opposite Jeshimon by the road, but David was staying in the wilderness. When he realized that Saul had come to the wilderness after him,

So David inquired of Yahweh, but he said, "You shall not go up. [Rather,] go around to their rear and come to them from opposite the balsam trees.

Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodTreesFalling

All of the doorways and the doorframes [had] four-sided casings, with opening to opposite opening three times.

Verse ConceptsOpposite SidesCornersWindows For The TempleThree Parts Of Constructions

The {Israelites} had been mustered and provisioned, and they went to engage them. The {Israelites} encamped opposite them as two flocks of goats, but the Arameans filled the land.

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsSmallnessTwo GroupsFew People

These encamped opposite for seven days, and it happened on the seventh day that {the battle began}, and the {Israelites} killed the Arameans, one hundred thousand infantry in one day.

Verse ConceptsWeeksOne Hundred Thousand And MoreThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSeven DaysDay 7Fighting EnemiesNumbers Of Foreigners Killedsyriacredibility

Seat two men, {scoundrels}, opposite him. Let them witness against him saying, 'You cursed God and the king.' Then you shall bring him out and stone him so that he dies."

Verse Conceptsethics, socialPersecution, Forms OfSatan, As The Enemy Of GodTwo WitnessesTwo WitnessesCursing GodKilling Named Individuals

Then the two men, {scoundrels}, came, sat opposite him, and the {scoundrels} witnessed against Naboth before the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king," so they brought him outside of the city and stoned him with stones, and he died.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsTwo WitnessesTwo WitnessesCursing GodKilling Named Individuals

The battle intensified on that day, and the king was being propped up in the chariot opposite Aram, but he died in the evening, and the blood of the wound ran out to the floor of the chariot.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes OfCovered With BloodOther Supporting

Then fifty men from the sons of the prophets went and stood opposite [them] at a distance while the two of them stood by the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsFiftiesOpposite SidesSons Of The Prophetsdistancefootprints

When they arose early in the morning, the sun shone on the waters, and Moab saw the waters from the opposite [side] as red as blood.

Verse ConceptsTurned To BloodThose Who Rose EarlyRosesSunshine

Then David inquired again of God. And God said to him, "You shall not go up after them. Go around from before them and come against them the opposite [way] of the balsam trees.

Verse Conceptsenquiring of God

And the priests stood at their posts with the Levites, with the instruments of the song of Yahweh that King David had made to give thanks to Yahweh--for his loyal love [is] everlasting--whenever David offered praise by their hand. Now the priests sounded trumpets [standing] opposite them, and all Israel stood.

Verse ConceptsPraise, Manner And Methods OfTrumpetInventions

{Next to them} Jedaiah son of Harumaph repaired opposite his house. {Next to him} Hattush son of Hashabneiah repaired.

After him Nehemiah son of Azbuk, commander of half of the district of Beth Zur, repaired up to [a point] opposite the burial sites of David, and up to the artificial pool and to the house of the mighty warriors.

Verse ConceptsTombsHalf Of Districtsheroes

{next to him} Ezer son of Jeshua, commander of Mizpah, repaired a second section of a wall opposite of the ascent of the armory at the angle.

Verse ConceptsStairwaysArmoryThe Angle

After them Benjamin and Hasshub repaired opposite their house. After them Azariah son of Maaseiah, son of Ananiah, repaired beside his house.

Palal son of Uzai [repaired] opposite the Angle at the tower that juts out from the upper house of the king, at the courtyard of the guard. After him Pedaiah son of Parosh

Verse ConceptsThe Angle

and the temple servants who were living on Ophel [repaired] up to opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower.

Verse ConceptsGatesNamed GatesTemple Assistants

After him the Tekoites repaired a second section of a wall opposite the projecting tower that goes out as far as the wall of Ophel.

Verse ConceptsBuilding Jerusalem's Wall

Above the Horse Gate the priests repaired, each one opposite his house.

Verse ConceptsNamed Gates

After them Zadok son of Immer repaired opposite his house. After him Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, keeper of the East Gate, repaired.

Verse ConceptsNamed Gates

After him Hananiah son of Shelemiah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. After him Meshullam son of Berekiah repaired [the wall] opposite his room.

After him Malkijah, {one of the goldsmiths}, repaired up to the house of the temple servants and the merchants, opposite the Enrollment Gate and up to the upper room of the corner.

Verse ConceptsNamed GatesTemple Assistants

I said to them, "Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot. While they are standing guard let them shut and fasten the doors. And appoint guards from the inhabitants of Jerusalem, one at his post and another opposite his house."

Verse ConceptsGatesHeatWatchfulness, Of BelieversThe Act Of OpeningOpening The TempleHot Weather

He read from it facing the public square before the Water Gate from dawn until noon that day, opposite the men, women, and those with understanding. The ears of all the people [were attentive] to the book of the law.

Verse ConceptsDawnNoonBible, Names OfNamed GatesReading The Bible

And Bakbukiah, Unno, their brothers [stood] opposite them during service.

And the heads of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their brothers opposite them, to praise and to give thanks by the command of David the man of God, section alongside section.

Verse ConceptsParticipation, In ChristResponsePraise, Should Be Offered By

At the Fountain Gate opposite them they went up the steps of the city of David, at the assent to the wall, over the house of David, and up to the Water Gate to the east.

Verse ConceptsStairwaysNamed GatesSteps

Then the second choir went the opposite [way]. I [followed] after them with half of the people on the wall, from over the Tower of the Ovens up to the Wide Wall

Verse ConceptsFurnacesOvensLeft Hand Side

But I warned them and said to them, "Why are you spending the night opposite the wall? If you do [it again], I will lay hands against you." From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.

And it happened, on the third day, and Esther put on royal clothes, and she stood in the inner courtyard of the {king's palace}, opposite the {king's palace}; the king [was] sitting on his royal throne in the {throne room} opposite the doorway of the palace.

Verse ConceptsThe Third Day Of The WeekDistinctive Clothingroyalty

And it was the opposite with you from the [other] women in your whorings; {no one solicited you as a prostitute}. {You gave} a harlot's wages, and harlot's wages [were] not given to you, and [so] it was [just] the opposite.

Verse ConceptsNot Like PeopleUnique Israelwhores

And he measured the gate from the top slab of the alcove to its [opposite] top slab [as] twenty-five cubits [in] width, {from one entrance to the other one opposite it}.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Doorways

And a gate [led] to the inner courtyard, opposite the gate to the north and to the east, and he measured from gate to gate [as] a hundred cubits.

Verse ConceptsOpposite SidesNorth GatesEast Gates

And he brought me out to the outer courtyard {to the north}, and he brought me to the chamber which [was] opposite the courtyard and which [is] opposite the building to the north.

Verse ConceptsCourts Of The Temple

Opposite the twenty [cubits] {of the inner courtyard}, and opposite [the] pavement that [was] to the outer courtyard [was] a gallery {facing} a gallery in the three [stories].

Verse ConceptsDecksThree Parts Of Constructions

And when the people of the land come {before} Yahweh at the festivals, [the] one coming [by] way of [the] gate of [the] north to bow down must go out [by] [the] way of [the] gate of [the] south, and the [one] coming [by] way of [the] gate of [the] south must go out [by the] way of [the] gate of [the] north, [so] he must not return [by] the way of the gate [by] which he came, but before it he shall go out opposite it.

Verse ConceptsPilgrimageNot Turning AsideNorth GatesSouth GatesFestivals Observed

{And on the west side} the Great Sea [shall be] the boundary up to opposite Lebo-Hamath. {This is the western boundary}.

Verse ConceptsWest Sides

{Immediately} {human fingers} appeared and they wrote {opposite} the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the palace of the king, and the king was watching the palm of the hand that was writing.

Verse ConceptsFingersFinger Of GodHousesInscriptionsPalacesWallsPlasterJudgements WrittenFingers Of PeopleGod Writing With His FingerGod's Intervention

Bible Theasaurus

Contrary (120 instances)
Converse (5 instances)
Opponent (18 instances)
Opposite (162 instances)
Opposition (40 instances)
Paired (2 instances)
Reverse (34 instances)

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ἀντίθεσις 
Antithesis 
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