13 occurrences

'Rough' in the Bible

The man who is the ruler of the country was rough with us and put us in prison, saying that we had come with a secret evil purpose.

Verse ConceptsSpying

Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up.

Verse ConceptsGrindingThreshing Floor

From generation to generation you are to give to the Lord a lifted offering from the first of your rough meal.

Verse ConceptsGrinding

Then David said to Jonathan, Who will give me word if your father gives you a rough answer?

Verse ConceptsTelling What People Said

But one of the young men said to Nabal's wife Abigail, David sent men from the waste land to say kind words to our master, and he gave them a rough answer.

Verse ConceptsGreetingsInsulting Other PeopleTelling Of Happenings

And the king gave them a rough answer, giving no attention to the suggestion of the old men;

Verse ConceptsDiscourtesyThe Elders GatheredMan's Counsel

And you are to put every walled town to destruction, cutting down every good tree, and stopping up every water-spring, and making all the good land rough with stones.

Verse ConceptsFortified CitiesTownEcological ConcernsConquestFelling TreesCities Under AttackPeople Drying Things UpHarming Trees

And the king gave them a rough answer. So King Rehoboam gave no attention to the suggestion of the old men,

And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land.

Verse ConceptsAaron, As High PriestGrindingFractions, One TenthTithesFirst fruitsTithes And Offering

Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low, and let the rough places become level, and the hilltops become a valley,

Verse ConceptsFilling PlacesMountains RemovedSmoothnessPutting Things DownThings Lifted UpHighways

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesdecisionsGuardiansGuidance, God's Promises OfWalking In DarknessPaths Of BelieversStraight ThingsLight Of God's PeopleNot Knowing WhereDarknessBlindnessguidancePathscredibility

I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:

Verse ConceptsBattlesIronCrookednessBrassStraighteningSmoothnessGod Going BeforeIron ObjectsBronze GatesSolar EclipseBreaking Chains

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Grating (11 instances)
Gravel (3 instances)
Hairy (8 instances)
Jolting (1 instance)
Knotted (3 instances)
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Pugnacious (2 instances)
Rocky (31 instances)
Rough (26 instances)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain