8 occurrences

'Overwhelming' in the Bible

So David went out to Baal-perazim and defeated the Philistines there. David observed, "Like an overwhelming flood, God has overwhelmed my enemies, using me to do it." That's why that place is called Baal-perazim.

For even if your people of Israel number as many as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Overwhelming, righteous destruction is decreed,

Because you said: "We have entered into a covenant with death, and we have an agreement with Sheol, so when the overwhelming scourge makes its choice, it cannot reach us, since we have made lies our refuge and have concealed ourselves inside falsehood,'

"Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be trampled by it.

Overwhelming forces will be carried away before him, along with the Commander-in-Chief of the covenant.

But with an overwhelming deluge he will bring utter desolation to Nineveh, and his enemies he will pursue with darkness.

For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, then the ministry of justification has an overwhelming glory.

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כּסה 
Kacah 
Usage: 152

עטף 
`ataph 
Usage: 16

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