12 occurrences

'Seizes' in the Bible

"If a man finds a young woman, a virgin [who] is not engaged, and he seizes her and {he has sex with her} and they are caught,

Verse ConceptsRapeLaws Of Sexual UnionYoung MarriageMarriage Kjvvirginity

"If a man and his brother fight each other and the wife of the one [man] comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of his attacker and she stretches [out] her hand and she seizes his genitals,

Verse ConceptsGraspingMale GenitalsFighting One AnotherStrugglesmanhood

A trap seizes [him] by [the] heel; a snare takes hold of him.

Verse ConceptsHeels

And when I think of [it], I am horrified, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

Verse ConceptsBodyIndividuals Trembling

He seizes my clothing with {great power}; he grasps me by my tunic's collar.

Verse ConceptsGod Is JustChokingCreatures Choked

He lies in ambush {secretly,} like a lion in a thicket. He lies in ambush to seize [the] poor; he seizes [the] poor by catching him in his net.

Verse ConceptsLionsNetsMan TrappingLike Creaturesrehabilitation

His roaring [is] like the lion, and he roars like young lions. And he growls and seizes his prey, and he carries [it] off, and not one can rescue [it].

Verse ConceptsHunting

And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and becomes paralyzed. And I told your disciples that they should expel it, and they were not able [to do so].

Verse Conceptsdriving outBitingTeethGnashing Of TeethThrowing PeoplePeople Casting Out DemonsConvulsionsHardnessFoamsThe Disciples ActionsUnable To Expel

And behold, a spirit seizes him and suddenly he screams, and it convulses him with foam and rarely withdraws from him, battering him severely.

Verse ConceptsBruisesevil, origins ofSpiritsConvulsionsFoamsIndividuals ShoutingThose DemonisedLeaving People Alone

The hired hand, who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf approaching and abandons the sheep and runs away--and the wolf seizes them and scatters [them]--

Verse ConceptsSatan, Compared With AnimalsUnfaithful MinistersScattered Like SheepMen Similar To AnimalsWolvesPeople Abandoning People

Bible Theasaurus

Appropriate (93 instances)
Assume (14 instances)
Attach (19 instances)
Capture (76 instances)
Clutch (1 instance)
Confiscate (13 instances)
Conquer (50 instances)
Seizes (17 instances)
Usurp (2 instances)

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Root Form
Definition
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נשׁא 
Nasha' 
Usage: 16