25 occurrences

'Shoulder' in the Bible

So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Verse ConceptsShouldersBottle, UsesDeserts, SpecificThe HomelessWater ContainersWanderersThose Who Rose EarlyCarrying Other LoadsExamples Of Love For Children

Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor, came out with her jar on her shoulder.

Verse ConceptsShouldersequipping, physicalWater ContainersWhile Still SpeakingCarrying Other Loads

“Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder, and went down to the spring and drew, and I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’

Verse ConceptsShouldersHeart, And Holy SpiritWater ContainersRequesting FoodDrawing WaterMan Providing WaterWhile Still SpeakingUnder One's BreathCarrying Other LoadsHeartfelt Prayer To God

She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels also’; so I drank, and she watered the camels also.

Verse ConceptsWater ContainersMan Providing WaterHasty Action

“When he saw that a resting place was goodAnd that the land was pleasant,He bowed his shoulder to bear burdens,And became a slave at forced labor.

Verse ConceptsSubjectionThose At EaseForced LabourGood Qualities

The priest shall take the ram’s shoulder when it has been boiled, and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his dedicated hair.

Verse ConceptsCakesShouldersWafersAnimal Sacrifices, Wave Offering

But he did not give any to the sons of Kohath because theirs was the service of the holy objects, which they carried on the shoulder.

Verse ConceptsNothingCarrying Holy Things

“Now this shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, either an ox or a sheep, of which they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.

Verse ConceptsSheepCheeksFood For Priests Defined

and Joshua said to them, “Cross again to the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel.

Verse ConceptsThe MiddleStones As MonumentsTwelve TribesTwelve ThingsIn The Jordan

So Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a branch from the trees, and lifted it and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry and do likewise.”

Verse ConceptsImitating OthersAxesTools

And admonished them in order to turn them back to Your law.Yet they acted arrogantly and did not listen to Your commandments but sinned against Your ordinances,By which if a man observes them he shall live.And they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck, and would not listen.

Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfStiffnecked PeopleLife Through Keeping The LawWorks Of The LawProud People

Let my shoulder fall from the socket,And my arm be broken off at the elbow.

Verse ConceptsAnatomyShoulders

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder,I would bind it to myself like a crown.

Verse ConceptsCarrying Other Loadscrowns

“I relieved his shoulder of the burden,His hands were freed from the basket.

Verse ConceptsBaskets, Uses OfRemoving BurdensRemoving People From Your Lifepot

to break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder.

Verse ConceptsCivil LibertyYokesTrampling PeopleRemoving Burdens

“Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder,When he opens no one will shut,When he shuts no one will open.

Verse ConceptsDavid, Spiritual Significance OfKeysOpen DoorsShutting The Kingdom

“They lift it upon the shoulder and carry it;They set it in its place and it stands there.It does not move from its place.Though one may cry to it, it cannot answer;It cannot deliver him from his distress.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionemptinessHearingProtection, Not Found InShouldersCarrying IdolsIdolatryOthers Not AnsweringSalvation By Other Things

Load the baggage on your shoulder in their sight and carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face so that you cannot see the land, for I have set you as a sign to the house of Israel.”

Verse ConceptsDarkness Of NightPeople As SignsSeeing SituationsCarrying Other Loads

I did so, as I had been commanded. By day I brought out my baggage like the baggage of an exile. Then in the evening I dug through the wall with my hands; I went out in the dark and carried the baggage on my shoulder in their sight.

Verse ConceptsUsing The DayThe Act Of OpeningOpening WallsDarkness Of NightBaggageExile In ProspectSeeing SituationsCarrying Other Loads

The prince who is among them will load his baggage on his shoulder in the dark and go out. They will dig a hole through the wall to bring it out. He will cover his face so that he can not see the land with his eyes.

Verse ConceptsThe Act Of OpeningOpening WallsGoing OutsideDarkness Of NightCarrying Other Loads

Put in it the pieces,Every good piece, the thigh and the shoulder;Fill it with choice bones.

Verse ConceptsBonesThighs Of Animalscookingpot

“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare. But he and his army had no wages from Tyre for the labor that he had performed against it.”

Verse ConceptsBaldnessBare ArmsThose Who Toiled

Because you push with side and with shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns until you have scattered them abroad,

Verse ConceptsHornsShouldersScattered Like SheepHorns Of AnimalsHorns WeakenedPropelling

“For then I will give to the peoples purified lips,That all of them may call on the name of the Lord,To serve Him shoulder to shoulder.

Verse ConceptsShouldersCalling upon GodHoliness, Purpose OfPurity, Moral And SpiritualCompanionshipLanguagePuritySpeechpeople

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