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'Similar' in the Bible

He issued similar instructions to the second and third group, as well as to all the others who drove the herds that followed: "This is how you are to speak to Esau when you find him.

Verse ConceptsMen's Orders

Then Pharaoh called for the wise men [skilled in magic and omens] and the sorcerers [skilled in witchcraft], and they also, these magicians (soothsayer-priests) of Egypt, did the same with their secret arts and enchantments.

Verse ConceptsImitating OthersMagical Arts, Practice OfSecrecySorcery And MagicWisdom, Human NatureFalse Miracles, Examples OfLying WondersMagiciansNecromancyWise MenKings SummoningSorcerymagic

It is not to be poured out on a person's body, nor are you to make anything like it with similar formulations. It is holy, and it is to be holy to you.

Verse ConceptsOintmentProvision For The BodySimilar Items

When the priest examines it and finds that the swelling of the skin rash is white or reddish on his bald head or forehead, similar in appearance to an infectious disease in the skin of the body,

Verse ConceptsWhite SpotsRed Parts Of The Body

Now manna was reminiscent of coriander seed, with an appearance similar to amber.

Verse ConceptsHerbs And SpicesWafersCorianderColor

If these people die a death similar to all other human beings, or if they are punished with a punishment common to other men, then the LORD didn't send me.

Verse Conceptsnatural Deathfate

As for the young lady, don't do anything to her. The young lady did nothing worthy of death. This case is similar to when a man attacks his countryman and kills him.

The woman asked, “Why have you devised something similar against the people of God? When the king spoke as he did about this matter, he has pronounced his own guilt. The king has not brought back his own banished one.

Verse ConceptsReinstating PeopleFound Guilty

At this very moment he is hiding out in one of the caves or in some other similar place. If it should turn out that he attacks our troops first, whoever hears about it will say, 'Absalom's army has been slaughtered!'

Verse ConceptsCavesPeople In CavesHiding From PeopleKilling Will HappenCaves As Places Of Refuge

Solomon’s own palace where he would live, in the other courtyard behind the hall, was of similar construction. And he made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, his wife.

The wheels’ design was similar to that of chariot wheels: their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of cast metal.

Jeroboam invented a festival for the fifteenth day of the eighth month similar to the festival that takes place in Judah. He approached the altar that he had set up in Bethel and sacrificed to the calves that he had made, having stationed in Bethel the priests that he had appointed.

Verse ConceptsNew Year, TheMonth 8the anniversary Feasts

All the other prophets were saying similar things, like "Go up to Ramoth-gilead and you will be successful, because the LORD will hand it over to the king!"

Verse ConceptsProsperityTo Be Given Into One's Hands

It was a handbreadth thick, with its brim fashioned like the brim of a cup. Similar in shape to a lily blossom, it could hold 3,000 baths.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, Linear

All the other prophets were saying similar things, like "Go up to Ramoth-gilead and you will be successful, because the LORD will hand it over to the king!"

Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said, "The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Verse ConceptsSeparationAbominations, Perverse Sexuality

He who quarries stones may be hurt with them, and he who splits logs may be endangered by them.

Verse ConceptsAccidentsSplitting WoodWoundsHurt

The Lord who commands armies is about to beat them with a whip, similar to the way he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will use his staff against the sea, lifting it up as he did in Egypt.

Verse ConceptsFloggingRemnantDoing Repeatedly

There was also a man named Uriah, Shemaiah's son from Kiriath-jearim, who prophesied in the LORD's name. He prophesied about this city and this land in words similar to those of Jeremiah.

Verse ConceptsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Neriah's son Baruch the scribe. He wrote on it, at Jeremiah's dictation, all the words of the book that Jehoiakim king of Judah burned in the fire. He also added to them many similar words.

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Methods Of OtAdding To GodBooks Of ProphecyOld Testament Claims InspirationJournalizing

A capital of bronze was on [top of] it. The height of each capital was five cubits (seven and one-half feet), with a lattice-work and pomegranates around it, all of bronze. The second pillar also, with its pomegranates, was similar to these.

Verse ConceptsNetsDimensions Of PillarsTop Of Things

Deep inside it, the likenesses of four living beings were visible. Their appearances were similar to human forms,

Verse ConceptsLike Men

And from above the expanse that [was] above their heads [there was] the likeness of a throne, {looking like a sapphire}, and above the likeness of the throne [was] a likeness similar to [the] appearance of a human on it, [but] {above it}.

Verse ConceptsColors, BlueGod, Sovereignty OfJewelsSymbolsTheophanyThronePrecious StonesGod In Relation To ManLike MenThe RainbowColor

Girded with waistbands around their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looked like chariot officers, similar to the Babylonians from Chaldea, where they had been born.

Verse ConceptsBeltsHead coveringWaistsOfficersDyeingHeadgear

with a passageway in front of them, similar in appearance to the chambers that were on the north, proportional to their length and width, with all of their exits according to their arrangements and doorways.

Verse ConceptsSame Sizes

The entrance at the beginning of the passageway, the way in front of the corresponding wall as one enters on the east side, was similar to the entrances of the chambers that were on the south side.

Verse ConceptsEast Gates

His appearance in the vision that I was having was similar to what I observed in the vision where he had come to destroy the city, and also like the visions that I saw by the Chebar River. I fell flat on my face

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of JerusalemVisions From God

This is what the LORD says: "Just as a shepherd might save from the lion's mouth only two leg bones or a scrap of an ear, the Israelis will be saved in a similar manner those in Samaria who sit on the remains of their broken beds, and those in Damascus who lie on the edge of their couches."

Verse ConceptsLegsMouthsRemnantShepherds, As OccupationsBedsStock Keepingdamascus

A similar plague will also strike horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all of the animals in those camps."

Verse ConceptsMulesAnimals, religious role ofLoss Of Donkeys

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