'Own' in the Bible

Then next to them, Immer's son Zadok did repairs as far as his own house. Next to him, Shecaniah's son Shemaiah, custodian of the East Gate, carried on repairs.

After him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired another section. After him Meshullam the son of Berechiah carried out repairs in front of his own quarters.

Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

When our enemies heard that we knew their scheme and that God had frustrated it, every one of us returned to his own work on the wall.

I considered these things carefully and then registered a complaint with the wealthy and the officials. I said to them, "Each one of you is seizing the collateral from your own countrymen!" Because of them I called for a great public assembly.

and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish countrymen who were sold to foreigners, but now you sell your own countrymen, and we have to buy them back.” They remained silent and could not say a word.

Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.

I charged them, "Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until mid-day. Until then, let everyone stand watch, keeping the gates shut and locked. Appoint security watches from those who live in Jerusalem. Everyone should maintain his own watch near his house."

These are the people of the province who went up among the captive exiles deported by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Each of them returned to Jerusalem and Judah, to his own town.

Seven months later, the Israelis had settled in their own cities.

“But they, in their own kingdom,With Your great goodness which You gave them,With the broad and rich land which You set before them,Did not serve You or turn from their evil deeds.

These are the heads of the province who stayed in Jerusalem (but in the villages of Judah each lived on his own property in their towns—the Israelites, priests, Levites, temple servants, and descendants of Solomon’s servants—

The rest of Israel, the priests, and the Levites were in all the villages of Judah, each on his own inherited property.

I also found out that because the portions for the Levites had not been given, each of the Levites and the singers performing the service had gone back to his own field.

As for their children, half spoke in the language of Ashdod, and none of them was able to speak the language of Judah, but the language of his own people.

So I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established responsibilities for the priests and Levites, each in his own work,

For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.

And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle of Mordecai who had adopted her as his own daughter. When her turn came to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, suggested. Esther won approval in the sight of everyone who saw her.

The royal scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded. It was intended for the royal satraps, the governors of each of the provinces, and the officials of each ethnic group and written for each province in its own script and to each ethnic group in its own language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the royal signet ring.

When the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even attempt to assault the queen with me in the palace?” As the king spoke those words, the servants covered Haman’s face [in preparation for execution].

On the twenty-third day of the third month (that is, the month Sivan), the royal scribes were summoned. Everything was written exactly as Mordecai ordered for the Jews, to the satraps, the governors, and the officials of the 127 provinces from India to Cush. The edict was written for each province in its own script, for each ethnic group in its own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

"Look! We have thought all this through, and what we've said is true; So please listen and learn for your own good!"

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

Then I would speak and not fear Him.But that is not the case; I am on my own. >

“I loathe my own life;I will give full vent to my complaint;I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

“The tents of the destroyers prosper;And those who provoke God are [apparently] secure,Whom God brings into their power.

“He loosens the bond of kingsAnd binds their loins with a loincloth.

Why do I put myself at riskand take my life in my own hands?

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

Pay attention to what I have to say and listen to my testimony with your own ears."

He feels only the pain of his own bodyand mourns only for himself.

Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

He has no children or descendants within his own people; and no survivors where he once lived.

I call for my servant, but he does not answer,even if I beg him with my own mouth.

My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

whom I will see for myself. My own eyes will look at him there won't be anyone else for me! He is the culmination of my innermost desire."

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

His children will beg from the poor,for his own hands must give back his wealth.

But their prosperity is not of their own doing.The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

Let his own eyes see his demise;let him drink from the Almighty’s wrath!

I haven't wandered away from the commands that he has spoken; I've treasured what he has said more than my own meals."

“They harvest their fodder in a field [that is not their own],And glean the vineyard of the wicked.

Then He saw wisdom and declared it;He established it and searched it out.

So I thought: I will die in my own nestand multiply my days as the sand.

"But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs.

let my own wife grind grain for another man,and let other men sleep with her.

if I have rejoiced because my wealth is greator because my own hand has acquired so much,

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Elihu’s anger burned against Job’s three friends because they had found no answer [and were unable to determine Job’s error], and yet they had condemned Job and declared him to be in the wrong [and responsible for his own afflictions].

That He may turn man aside from his conduct,And keep him from pride;

Job has been speaking from his own ignorance, and what he has to say lacks insight!

“Men therefore fear Him;He does not regard nor respect any who are wise in heart [in their own understanding and conceit].”

She treats her young harshly, as if they were not her own,with no fear that her labor may have been in vain.

Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.

Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

For the wicked one boasts about his own cravings;the one who is greedy curses and despises the Lord.

But you do see! You take note of trouble and grief in order to take the matter into your own hand. The helpless one commits himself to you; you have been the orphan's helper.

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

He does not put out his money at interest [to a fellow Israelite],And does not take a bribe against the innocent.He who does these things will never be shaken.

Thou hast said to Jehovah, 'My Lord Thou art;' My good is not for thine own sake;

They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

Indeed, you deliver the oppressed, but you bring down those who exalt themselves in their own eyes.

Who can detect his own mistake? Cleanse me from hidden sin.

Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.

Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.

All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

For you are my high ridge and my stronghold; for the sake of your own reputation you lead me and guide me.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

They open their mouth wide against me, claiming, "Yes! Yes! We saw him do it with our own eyes!"

For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

The Lord laughs at him [the wicked one—the one who oppresses the righteous],For He sees that his day [of defeat] is coming.

Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

You with Your own hand drove out the nations;Then You planted them;You afflicted the peoples,Then You spread them abroad.

For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

These things you did, and I kept silent, because you assumed that I was like you. But now I am going to rebuke you, and I will set forth my case before your very own eyes."

The sin of their mouth is the word on their lips. They will be caught in their own conceit; for they speak curses and lies.

So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us.

God settles those who have been deserted in their own homes; he frees prisoners and grants them prosperity. But sinful rebels live in the desert.

My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.

May their table [with all its abundance and luxury] become a snare [to them];And when they are in peace [secure at their sacrificial feasts], may it become a trap.