58 occurrences in 13 translations

'Overflow' in the Bible

And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;

Verse ConceptsChariotsHorsesDestroying ChariotsEarthly Armies

This is what the LORD says: "Though you won't see wind or storm, nevertheless that river will overflow with water so that you, your cattle, and your livestock may drink.'

Verse ConceptsWaterAnimals, Care ForProphesyingGod Providing WaterNo Winds

My brothers are as treacherous as a wadi,as seasonal streams that overflow

My friends mock me, while my eyes overflow with tears to God,

Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; He is confident, though a Jordan swell even to his mouth.

For this let every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: Surely when the great waters overflow they shall not reach unto him.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeThe Accepted TimeWatchfulness, DivineAnswered PromisesFinding GodSwampedStress And Hard TimesOvercoming Hard TimesFloodsPrayer During Hard TimesAcknowledged

You fill the furrows of the field with water so that their ridges overflow. You soften them with rain showers; their sprouts you have blessed.

Verse ConceptsFurrowsShowersSoftnessGod BlessesChange And Growth

The wilderness pastures overflow,and the hills are robed with joy.

Verse ConceptsBeauty Of NatureThe Beauty Of Nature

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

Verse ConceptsChaosMarshes

Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.

Verse ConceptsPitsSaved From The PitSwampedPits As A Term For GravesOvercomingFloodsBeing Overwhelmedoverwhelmed

Their eye bulges from fatness [they have more than the heart desires];The imaginations of their mind run riot [with foolishness].

Verse ConceptsProud HeartsHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedMind, The HumanFat PeopleThoughts Of The Wickedcatsimagination

Lo, He hath smitten a rock, And waters flow, yea, streams overflow. 'Also -- bread is He able to give? Doth He prepare flesh for His people?'

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialStriking RocksGod Providing WaterProvision From RocksGod Feeds All The Earth

Our lives overflow with scorn from those who live at ease, with contempt from those who are proud. A Davidic Song of Ascents

Verse ConceptsPride, Results OfArrogance, Characterizes The WickedThe Proud

Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

Verse ConceptsAvoid AdulteryFountains Used FigurativelyBrooksSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

The words of the righteous overflow with wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut out.

Verse ConceptsBad LanguageMouthsCursingSevering Body PartsThe TongueTogethernesscutting

A man might father a hundred children, and live for many years, so that the length of his life is long but if his life does not overflow with goodness, and he doesn't receive a proper burial, I maintain that stillborn children are better off than he is,

Verse ConceptsUnburied BodiesOne HundredNo BurialsLiving LongMiscarriages And StillbornLack Of A Proper BurialThe More Children The BetterDadsDeath Of A ChildRaising ChildrenLiveBeing A Good FatherDeath Of A FatherHaving A Good DayBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeHaving A BabyLeaving Parents For Spousefatherhood

“Many waters cannot quench love,Nor will rivers overflow it;If a man were to give all the riches of his house for love,It would be utterly despised.”

Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterQuenchingLove Of Jesus, To The SaintsLove Towards Christ, The Nature OfRomance

the Lord will certainly bring against themthe mighty rushing waters of the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria and all his glory.It will overflow its channelsand spill over all its banks.

Verse ConceptsChaosLike A Flood

And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

Verse ConceptsNecksPresent, TheGod With You

For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfRemnantGod Doing RightDoing RightEnd Of ActionsMany In IsraelSand And Gravel

And they were on great waters.The grain of the Shihor, the harvest of the Nile River, was Tyre’s revenue;And she was the market of nations.

Verse ConceptsMarkets

Overflow your land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish;there is no longer anything to restrain you.

Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfPlumb LineAccuracy

Let them come quickly to raise a lament over usso that our eyes may overflow with tears,our eyelids soaked with weeping.

Verse ConceptsShedding

But if you will not listen,my innermost being will weep in secretbecause of your pride.My eyes will overflow with tears,for the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.

Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelFeelings Of Rejection By GodSecrecySorrowWeepingRefusing To HearActing In SecretThe Proud Will Be Abased

You are to speak this word to them:Let my eyes overflow with tears;day and night may they not stop,for the virgin daughter of my peoplehas been destroyed by a great disaster,an extremely severe wound.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersAffliction Day And NightNightI Mourn Catastrophe

Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.

Verse ConceptsOut Of The NorthLike A FloodFloods

“I weep for these things;My eyes overflow with tears,Because a comforter,One who could restore my soul, is far away from me.My children are desolate and perishing,For the enemy has prevailed.”

Verse ConceptsBeing ForsakenPeace, Human Destruction OfSympathyRestoring SinnersI Mourn CatastropheNo Comfort

My eyes overflow with streams of tearsBecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people (Jerusalem).

Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelBereavement, Expression OfTearsI Mourn Catastrophe

ע AyinMy eyes overflow unceasingly,without end,

Verse ConceptsUnceasingContinual Hardship

I'll drench the land with your blood, right up to the mountains, and the ravines will overflow with blood that comes from you!

Verse ConceptsHuman Blood Shed

And after the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with an overflow, and unto the end, war, the desolations determined.

Verse ConceptsFlood, TheNothing100 Years And MoreDestruction Of The TempleForetelling Christ's DeathChrist's OriginFour Horsemen Of The Apocalypse

But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsReadiness

Yea, they that feed of the portion of his meat shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow: and many shall fall down slain.

Verse ConceptsKilling Will HappenRich Food

And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

Verse ConceptsArmageddonThe NavyAttacking With ChariotsShips For AttackingEnd Of DaysFamily ConflictEnd Times

And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.

Verse ConceptsThreshing FloorPlenty Of WinePlenty Through GodWineskins And Vats

Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

Verse ConceptsHarvestMaturity, PhysicalSicklesSowing And ReapingWinepressAbundance, MaterialTreading GrapesWineskins And Vats

“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,“When the plowman shall overtake the one who gathers the harvest,And the one who treads the grapes [shall overtake] him who sows the seed [for the harvest continues until planting time];When the mountains will drip sweet wineAnd all the hills shall melt [that is, everything that was once barren will overflow with streams of blessing].

Verse ConceptsFutureAlcoholGrapesHillsPloughingAbundance, MaterialCultivationIncreasing FruitOvertakingPlenty Of WinePloughmenReapersTreading GrapesBlessings From The Mountains

For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingSaltWeedsAmmonitesSurvivors FavouredSournessPets

“Proclaim further: This is what the Lord of Hosts says: My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the Lord will once more comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.”

Verse Conceptselection, privileges ofReinstatementAfflictions, Consolation DuringPlenty Through GodGod Will ComfortPeace And ComfortImmigrantsSpreading The GospelWealth And Prosperityjerusalemzion

If the people of Egypt do not come to Jerusalem to take part, they will have no annual Nile overflow. A plague will come from the LORD to strike the nations who do not come to observe the Festival of Tents.

Verse ConceptsLack Of Rain

Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

Verse ConceptsBad PeopleSnakesParents SinThings Like SnakesNothing GoodBeware Of Your Speechmath

A good man produces good out of the good storeroom of his heart. An evil man produces evil out of the evil storeroom, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

Verse ConceptsBad ThoughtsBad PeopleBad LanguageBackbitingImagination, Inward DesiresSin, Nature OfSpeech, Power And Significance OfControlling Your ThoughtsCursingPowers Of SpeechGood PeoplePersonal GoodAbundanceclosure

But the free gift [of God] is not like the trespass [because the gift of grace overwhelms the fall of man]. For if many died by one man’s trespass [Adam’s sin], much more [abundantly] did God’s grace and the gift [that comes] by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, overflow to [benefit] the many.

Verse ConceptsAdam and Jesus ChristGod's attitude towards peopleParticipation, In ChristAbounding, Good ThingsGrace, Description OfSalvation, As A GiftSaving GraceGrowth In GraceMany Seeking SalvationSin Producing DeathNot Like ThingsOnly One PersonSin Produces DeathThe Grace Of ChristThe Grace Of GodGod's Grace

What shall we say [to all this]? Should we continue in sin and practice sin as a habit so that [God’s gift of] grace may increase and overflow?

Verse ConceptsAbuse, Of Spiritual ThingsGrowth In GraceContinual SinContinuing In SinLiving In SinGraceGod's GraceAbusePersistenceMercy And Grace

For if [there was] glory in the ministry of condemnation, by much more will the ministry of righteousness overflow with glory.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, the newCondemnation, Causes OfCondemnation Of The WickedGod Bestowing GloryReconciliationMinistrycondemnation

Bible Theasaurus

Flood (99 instances)
Outpouring (5 instances)
Overflow (58 instances)
Overrun (12 instances)
Runoff (1 instance)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּכי 
B@kiy 
Usage: 29

זרם 
Zerem 
Usage: 9

יצק 
Yatsaq 
Usage: 53

מלא מלא 
Male' 
Usage: 251

צוּף 
Tsuwph 
Usage: 3

שׁוּק 
Shuwq 
Usage: 3

שׁטף 
Shataph 
Usage: 31

שׁטף שׁטף 
Sheteph 
Usage: 6

κατακλύζω 
Katakluzo 
Usage: 1

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