19 occurrences

'Spy' in the Bible

"Send men, that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel. Of every tribe of their fathers, you shall send a man, every one a prince among them."

Verse ConceptsSpyingTwelve Tribesexploring

These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.

Verse ConceptsPeople Renaming People

Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, "Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country:

Verse Conceptsexploring

They brought up an evil report of the land which they had spied out to the children of Israel, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people who we saw in it are men of great stature.

Verse ConceptsBad Newsdoubt, results ofGiantsexploring

and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.

The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,

Verse ConceptsDiscontentSpying

But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men who went to spy out the land.

Verse ConceptsLiving Onexploring

Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its towns, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

Verse ConceptsSpiesSpying

The king of Jericho was told, "Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land."

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

The king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land."

Verse ConceptsPeople Made Known

But Rahab the prostitute, her father's household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsSpyingPeople Hiding PeopleWhere People Live To This Daywhores

Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, "Go up and spy out the land." The men went up and spied out Ai.

Verse ConceptsAi, The CityLand, As A Divine GiftSpiesSpyingGradual Conquest Of The Land

I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart.

Verse ConceptsSpying

The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)

Verse Conceptstraitors

The children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said to them, "Go, explore the land!" They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

Verse ConceptsSpiesFive PeopleSpying

Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, "Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do."

Verse ConceptsFive People

The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.

Verse ConceptsDishonesty, Examples OfFive PeopleSix To Seven HundredStanding In The GatewaySix Hundred And Above

But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Hasn't David sent his servants to you to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?"

Verse ConceptsFalse Accusations, Examples OfPrejudiceSpiesAccusations, False ExamplesSpying

But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, "Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven't his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?"

Verse ConceptsSpiesSpying

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רגל 
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ראה 
Ra'ah 
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תּוּר 
Tuwr 
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ἐγκάθετος 
Egkathetos 
spy
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κατασκοπέω 
Kataskopeo 
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κατάσκοπος 
Kataskopos 
spy
Usage: 1