'Place' in the Bible

God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear." It was so.

So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was asleep, he took part of the man's side and closed up the place with flesh.

And Adam had marital relations with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth, saying, "God has given me another child in place of Abel because Cain killed him."

I will place my rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth.

And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.

This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the Lord.

After Lot had departed, the Lord said to Abram, "Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.

What if there are fifty godly people in the city? Will you really wipe it out and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty godly people who are in it?

So the Lord replied, "If I find in the city of Sodom fifty godly people, I will spare the whole place for their sake."

Then the two visitors said to Lot, "Who else do you have here? Do you have any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? Get them out of this place

because we are about to destroy it. The outcry against this place is so great before the Lord that he has sent us to destroy it."

Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. He said, "Quick, get out of this place because the Lord is about to destroy the city!" But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them.

Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it's just a little one. Let me go there. It's just a little place, isn't it? Then I'll survive."

Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord.

Abraham replied, "Because I thought, 'Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.'

When God made me wander from my father's house, I told her, 'This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: Every place we go, say about me, "He is my brother."'"

That is why he named that place Beer Sheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out for the place God had spoken to him about.

On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place in the distance.

When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

And Abraham called the name of that place "The Lord provides." It is said to this day, "In the mountain of the Lord provision will be made."

Laban said to him, "Come, you who are blessed by the Lord! Why are you standing out here when I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?"

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, "She is my sister." He was afraid to say, "She is my wife," for he thought to himself, "The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful."

He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that place

Then Jacob woke up and thought, "Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!"

He was afraid and said, "What an awesome place this is! This is nothing else than the house of God! This is the gate of heaven!"

He called that place Bethel, although the former name of the town was Luz.

When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well's mouth.

So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a feast.

Jacob became furious with Rachel and exclaimed, "Am I in the place of God, who has kept you from having children?"

When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, "This is the camp of God!" So he named that place Mahanaim.

So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining, "Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived."

But Jacob traveled to Succoth where he built himself a house and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place was called Succoth.

He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

Then God went up from the place where he spoke with him.

So Jacob set up a sacred stone pillar in the place where God spoke with him. He poured out a drink offering on it, and then he poured oil on it.

Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.

When Bela died, Jobab the son of Zerah from Bozrah reigned in his place.

When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.

When Husham died, Hadad the son of Bedad, who defeated the Midianites in the land of Moab, reigned in his place; the name of his city was Avith.

When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah reigned in his place.

When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place.

When Shaul died, Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.

When Baal-Hanan the son of Achbor died, Hadad reigned in his place; the name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-Zahab.

So he returned to Judah and said, "I couldn't find her. Moreover, the men of the place said, 'There has been no cult prostitute here.'"

Joseph's master took him and threw him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined. So he was there in the prison.

"See here," Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I place you in authority over all the land of Egypt."

You will be tested in this way: As surely as Pharaoh lives, you will not depart from this place unless your youngest brother comes here.

I myself pledge security for him; you may hold me liable. If I do not bring him back to you and place him here before you, I will bear the blame before you all my life.

But when we came to the place where we spent the night, we opened our sacks and each of us found his money -- the full amount -- in the mouth of his sack. So we have returned it.

They set a place for him, a separate place for his brothers, and another for the Egyptians who were eating with him. (The Egyptians are not able to eat with Hebrews, for the Egyptians think it is disgusting to do so.)

but when I rest with my fathers, carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place." Joseph said, "I will do as you say."

Joseph said to his father, "They are the sons God has given me in this place." His father said, "Bring them to me so I may bless them."

But Joseph answered them, "Don't be afraid. Am I in the place of God?

Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath. He said, "God will surely come to you. Then you must carry my bones up from this place."