100 occurrences in 12 translations

'Read' in the Bible

And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.

Verse ConceptsBook of the CovenantReadingResponseReading The ScripturesWe ObeyTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiReading The Bible

And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:

Verse ConceptsLearningStudentsKings, How They Should ActReading The ScripturesFear God!Keep The Commandments!Reading The Bible

When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

Verse ConceptsChoicesPilgrimageReading The ScripturesReading The Bible

And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

Verse ConceptsReading The ScripturesBook of the LawThe Curse Of The LawBlessing And CurseThe Law Given Through Moses

There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.

Verse ConceptsForeignersChildren, needs ofTeaching ChildrenTraining Children

"I have read the letter that you sent me. I'll do what you've asked about the cedar and cypress timber.

Verse ConceptsCommerceCedar Wood

Now as for the rest of Jeroboam's accomplishments, including how he waged war and how he reigned, you may read about them in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

Verse ConceptsHistorical Books

He brought the letter to the king of Israel, and it read:When this letter comes to you, note that I have sent you my servant Naaman for you to cure him of his skin disease.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyHealing Lepersgays

And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

Verse ConceptsLiteracyGod Giving LifeGod KillingThose Who Tore ClothesGod In Relation To ManGod KillsMan's Relation To God

They made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, they practiced divination and read omens, and they sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionChild sacrificeProvoking GodConsultationsPagan PracticesCharacter Of WickedDivinationmagicwitches

And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

Verse ConceptsLettersLiteracySpreading

And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

Verse ConceptsArchivesScribesReading The ScripturesThe Law Given To Israel

And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

Verse ConceptsReading The Scriptures

Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read:

Verse ConceptsGod Will Bring Harm

And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsBook of the CovenantReadingLiteracyReading The ScripturesGreat And Small

But King Joash of Israel replied to King Amaziah of Judah, "There once was a thorn bush in Lebanon that sent an invitation to the cedar of Lebanon that read "Give your daughter to my son in marriage.' Right about then, a wild animal in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thorn bush.

Verse ConceptsCedarThornsTwelve Beings

Messengers delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. This royal edict read: "O Israelites, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria.

Verse ConceptsHeraldRevival, CorporateInfidelity To GodMissionary Examples

Afterward King Sennacherib of Assyria, while attacking Lachish with all his military might, sent his messengers to Jerusalem. The message was for King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem. It read:

Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath given me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.

Verse ConceptsScribes

"Go ask the LORD for me and for those who survive in Israel and in Judah about the words that we've read in this book that we found, because the wrath of the LORD that we deserve to have poured out on us is very great, since our ancestors haven't obeyed the command from the LORD that required us to do everything that is written in this book."

Verse ConceptsRemnantWord Of God

Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah:

And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsReading

It read: "This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: 'The Lord God of the heavens has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has appointed me to build for him a temple in Jerusalem in Judah. May the Lord your God energize you who belong to his people, so you may be able to go back there!"

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, History OfKingdomsThe Second TempleGod Be With You

The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.

Verse ConceptsLiteracyReading Other Matter

Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power.

Verse ConceptsArtaxerxes The KingJews, TheHasty ActionReading Other Matter

And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.

Verse ConceptsDawnNoonBible, Names OfNamed GatesReading The Bible

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

Verse ConceptsUnderstandingReading The ScripturesReading The Bible

Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner.

Verse ConceptsCongregationWeeksDaily DutyDay 8Seven DaysReading The Scriptures

And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped the LORD their God.

Verse ConceptsDays, Natural UseBook of the LawReadingSynagogueWorship, Elements OfReading The ScripturesA Fourth PartSin ConfessedWorshiping GodWorshiping TogetherReading The Bibleconfessing

On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;

Verse ConceptsAudiencesReadingMoses, Significance OfReading The ScripturesBook of the LawLaws Restricting Foreigners

On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.

Verse ConceptsInsomnia, Causes OfWakefulnessReading Other MatterHistorical Booksmums

But beyond this my son, [about going further than the words given by one Shepherd], be warned: the writing of many books is endless [so do not believe everything you read], and excessive study and devotion to books is wearying to the body.

Verse ConceptsFatigueStudying The BibleEternal TruthFruitless LearningTired In ActivityMental HealthAddictionEducationStudyingReading The Bibledevotionresearch

Then the Lord said to me, “Take for yourself a large tablet [for public display] and write on it in ordinary characters: Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

Verse ConceptsPensScrollsTabletsWritingSpeedAlphabetMaking The Message Clear

And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

Verse ConceptsScrollsDullnessSealing The MessageReading The Bible

And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

Verse ConceptsLiteracyReading Other MatterMemorizing ScriptureEducationReading The Bible

At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.

Verse ConceptsDeafnessDarkness, Deliverance FromEyes, Used In PropheciesThe Deaf HearingHealing Of The Blind

And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

Verse ConceptsLettersSpreading

And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.

Verse ConceptsLiteracyReading Other Matter

Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

Verse ConceptsReading The ScripturesFasting Regularly

So Baruch son of Neriah did everything Jeremiah the prophet had commanded him. At the Lord’s temple he read the Lord’s words from the scroll.

Verse ConceptsReading The Scriptures

Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S house, in the ears of all the people.

Verse ConceptsCourtyardSecretaryNamed GatesReading The Scriptures

Micaiah, who was the son of Gemariah and the grandson of Shaphan, heard Baruch read from the scroll everything the Lord had said.

Then Michaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

Verse ConceptsReading The Scriptures

Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.

And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.

Verse ConceptsReading The Scriptures

When they had heard it all, they expressed their alarm to one another. Then they said to Baruch, "We must certainly give the king a report about everything you have read!"

Verse ConceptsFearing God's Word

So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took it out of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.

Verse ConceptsStandingReading The ScripturesPrivate Rooms

And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

Verse ConceptsKnifesKnivesPensScrollsRejection Of God's WordRejecting God's WordThree Or FourReading The ScripturesBroken Things

Neither he nor any of his attendants showed any alarm when they heard all that had been read. Nor did they tear their clothes to show any grief or sorrow.

Verse ConceptsNot Tearing ClothesFearing God's Word

And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;

Verse ConceptsReadingLiteracyReading The Scriptures

The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

Verse ConceptsInscriptionsClothingChainsGoldRulersWisdom, Human NatureWisdom, Source Of HumanColors, PurpleRich ApparelDressGold ChainsPurple ClothesGold OrnamentsJewelleryThird PersonReading Other Matter

Then came in all the king's wise men: but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.

Verse ConceptsWisdom, Human NaturePeople's Inability To UnderstandReading Other MatterUnable To Understand

And now the wise men, the astrologers, have been brought in before me, that they should read this writing, and make known unto me the interpretation thereof: but they could not shew the interpretation of the thing:

Verse ConceptsInscriptionsInterpreting LanguageReading Other Matterpsychics

And I have heard of thee, that thou canst make interpretations, and dissolve doubts: now if thou canst read the writing, and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about thy neck, and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom.

Verse ConceptsInscriptionsGoldGold ChainsPurple ClothesInterpreting LanguageJewelleryThird PersonReading Other MatterTelling Of People's Situationsknots

Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

Verse ConceptsInscriptionsNo RewardReading Other MatterBeing Yourself

Therefore night will fall, and you will receive no visions; it will grow dark, and you will no longer be able to read the omens. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn to darkness over their heads.

Verse ConceptsVisionsThe SunSunsetsSpiritual NightOvertaken By DarknessNo VisionsSpiritual DarknessEclipse

Her leaders take bribes when they decide legal cases, her priests proclaim rulings for profit, and her prophets read omens for pay. Yet they claim to trust the Lord and say, "The Lord is among us. Disaster will not overtake us!"

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceLove, Abuse OfMoney, Uses OfPriests, Institution In Ot TimesSpiritual MalnutritionReward, HumanUnfaithful MinistersSelfishness, Shown InCorrupt PriestsMisteachingWicked ProphetsGod Is Among YouBelief In GodGod SupportingDivinityRewards Of RitualFinancesMaking Decisionsprophetspriests

Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

Verse ConceptsReading The ScripturesChrist And The ScripturesThe Sabbath And ChristLack Of HolinessBreaking God's Law

And in the morning, ‘Today will be stormy because the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to read the appearance of the sky, but you can’t read the signs of the times.

Verse ConceptsMorningSignsWeather ForecastsSigns Of Christ's ReturnIn The MorningAppearances ofHypocritesHypocrisyDiscernmentSigns Of The End TimesStaying Strong During Hard TimesWeather In The Last Daysweather

And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

Verse ConceptsBabies, Figurative UseReadingLipsNeverAssentingReading The ScripturesChildren And The KingdomPraise To God Is FittingBabies Used As A Spiritual Imagebaby

Jesus told them, "Yes! Haven't you ever read, "From the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have created praise'?" Then he left them and went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

Verse ConceptsVisitingStaying Temporarily

But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,

Verse ConceptsReadingReading The ScripturesThe Resurrection

And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?

Verse ConceptsConsecrated BreadReading The Scriptures

And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

Verse ConceptsBurning bushReading The ScripturesBook of the Law

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

Verse ConceptsCustomReadingHabitsLiteracySabbath, In NtSynagogueWorship, Times ForReading The ScripturesOn The SabbathGoing To Churchculture

he began to say to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled, as you've heard it read aloud."

Verse ConceptsGospel, Confirmation OfTodayScripture SaysScriptures FulfilledReading The Biblefulfillment

And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;

Verse ConceptsConsecrated BreadReading The Scriptures

“What is written in the law?” He asked him. “How do you read it?”

Verse ConceptsReading The Scriptures

and He did not need anyone to testify concerning man [and human nature], for He Himself knew what was in man [in their hearts—in the very core of their being].

Verse ConceptsHow Jesus Knows The HeartDiscernment of JesusChrist Knowing About Peopletestimonytestifying

Pilate wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, "Jesus from Nazareth, the King of the Jews."

Verse ConceptsCrucifixion, Of ChristSarcasmMessianic Titles, King Of The JewsInscriptionsChrist Is King Of IsraelThe Cross

This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin.

Verse ConceptsLanguagesLiteracyAramaic LanguageReading Other Mattercrucifixion

Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.

Verse ConceptsChariotsLiteracyReading The ScripturesNamed Prophets Of The Lord

And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

Verse ConceptsReading The ScripturesDo You Understand?Named Prophets Of The LordReading The Bible

The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:

Verse ConceptsLambsMutenessSilenceJesus Christ, Meekness OfSheep ShearingHumility Of ChristPatience, The Nature OfChrist Being SilentChrist Was KilledUse Of The Scriptures

For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

Verse ConceptsIgnorance, Of ChristRulersNot Knowing About ChristReading The ScripturesCondemning JesusOn The SabbathScriptures FulfilledWritten In The Prophets

And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;

Verse ConceptsProvinces

For it is not those who merely hear the Law [as it is read aloud] who are just or righteous before God, but it is those who [actually] obey the Law who will be justified [pronounced free of the guilt of sin and declared acceptable to Him].

Verse ConceptsAccepting ChristCommitment, to GodHearingListeningWork, And RedemptionHearing God's WordJustified By WorksWorks Of The LawBlessings Of Obedience

But the spiritual man [the spiritually mature Christian] judges all things [questions, examines and applies what the Holy Spirit reveals], yet is himself judged by no one [the unbeliever cannot judge and understand the believer’s spiritual nature].

Verse ConceptsImmunityThat Which Is SpiritualLack Of DiscriminationSpiritualJudgmentsJudgingDiscernmentJudgementJudging Others Actionsdiscrimination

For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;

Verse ConceptsLiteracyWriting LettersMaking The Message ClearReading Other Matter

And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.

Verse ConceptsReadingLettersLiteracyThe Biblical CanonReading Other Matter

And this is still more abundantly clear when we read that it is as belonging to the order of Melchizedek that a priest of a different kind is to arise,

Verse ConceptsChrist, The High PriestChrist Like People

For when every commandment in the Law had been read by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of the calves and goats [which had been sacrificed], together with water and scarlet wool and with a bunch of hyssop, and he sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people,

Verse ConceptsCrimsonBranches, Types OfSprinklingWoolRed MaterialSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

Blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired) is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and who keep the things which are written in it [heeding them and taking them to heart]; for the time [of fulfillment] is near.

Verse ConceptsBlessedUrgencyReadingLiteracyProphecy, Methods Of OtSeasons, Of LifeReading The ScripturesBlessed In ServiceNear The Time GenerallyProphecyProphecies concerningStudyingBlessings From GodBlessing OthersReading The BibleSigns Of The End TimesEnd Timesrevelation

And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.

Verse ConceptsWeepingWorthinessMourning In Regret

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
παρασκευάζω 
Paraskeuazo 
Usage: 4

προθυμία 
Prothumia 
Usage: 5

הוּן 
Huwn 
Usage: 1

חוּשׁ 
Chuwsh 
Usage: 19

כּוּן 
Kuwn 
Usage: 217

מהר מהיר 
Mahiyr 
Usage: 4

מהר 
Mahar 
Usage: 68

מוט 
Mowt 
Usage: 38

מקרא 
Miqra' 
Usage: 23

עתד 
`athad 
Usage: 2

עתיד 
`athiyd (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

עתיד 
`athiyd 
Usage: 5

קרא 
Qara' 
Usage: 736

קרא 
Q@ra' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 11

ἀναγινώσκω 
Anaginosko 
Usage: 20

ἀνάγνωσις 
Anagnosis 
Usage: 3

ἐγγύς 
Eggus 
nigh , at hand , nigh at hand , near , from , nigh unto , ready
Usage: 23

ἑτοιμάζω 
hetoimazo 
Usage: 27

ἑτοιμος 
hetoimos 
Usage: 9

ἑτοίμως 
hetoimos 
Usage: 3

εὐμετάδοτος 
Eumetadotos 
Usage: 1

πρόθυμος 
Prothumos 
Usage: 1

σπένδω 
Spendo 
be ready to be offered , be offered
Usage: 2

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