33 occurrences in 13 translations

'Stories' in the Bible

A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

Verse ConceptsRooftopDecksThree Parts Of Constructions

"We had a dream," they replied, "but there's no one to interpret it." "Interpretations belong to God," Joseph told them, "so please tell me your stories."

Verse ConceptsDreamsNo One AvailableTelling Dreams

Against the wall of the house he built stories encompassing the walls of the house around both the nave and the inner sanctuary; thus he made side chambers all around.

Verse Conceptsstructure

He also built the stories against the whole house, each five cubits high; and they were fastened to the house with timbers of cedar.

Verse ConceptsHeightDecksDimensions Of ChambersCedar Woodstructure

All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

Verse ConceptsBackbitingRebellion, Of IsraelWicked Described AsSpreading StoriesThings Like Bronzeapostasy

Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?

Verse ConceptsParablesInfidelity To GodOthers Using Parables

The side rooms were arranged one above another in three stories of 30 rooms each. There were ledges on the wall of the temple all around to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be in the temple wall itself.

Verse ConceptsThirtyDecksThree Parts Of ConstructionsRooms Of Ezekiel's Temple

The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;

Verse ConceptsNarrownessWindows For The TempleThree Parts Of Constructions

Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

Verse ConceptsDecksThree Parts Of Constructions

The upper chambers were narrower because the galleries took away more space from them than from the lower and middle stories of the building.

Verse ConceptsNarrownessNarrow Things

For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

Verse ConceptsDecksPillars For Ezekiel's TempleThree Parts Of Constructions

It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.

Verse ConceptsSeaPouringCreation Of The SeasPouring WaterWaters DividingHis Name Is The Lord

He told them many things in parables, saying, “Listen carefully: a sower went out to sow [seed in his field];

Verse ConceptsParables Of ChristJesus Using ParablesFarmingSowing Seeds

And the disciples came and said to him, Why do you say things to them in the form of stories?

Verse ConceptsFigures Of SpeechThe Disciples WordsWhy Does Jesus Do This?Discipleship

For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Blindness, In UnbelieversDullnessNot Seeing Spiritual ThingsBeing Without UnderstandingJesus Using ParablesWhy God Did ThingsListening To God

All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:

Verse ConceptsMultitudesCrowdsJesus Using Parables

That it might come true which was said by the prophet, Opening my mouth, I will give out stories; I will give knowledge of things kept secret from before all time.

Verse ConceptsMouthsDisclosuresChrist's Fulfilment Of ProphecyFrom The BeginningOthers Using ParablesWritten In The ProphetsGod's Things Concealed

And when Jesus had come to the end of these stories he went away from there.

Verse ConceptsLast WordsJesus Using Parablesfinishing

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was talking about them.

Verse ConceptsJesus Using ParablesUnderstanding God's Wordpharisees

Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying,

Verse ConceptsJesus Using Parables

And he gave them teaching about a number of things in the form of stories, and said to them in his teaching, Give ear:

Verse ConceptsJesus As Our TeacherJesus Using Parables

And when he was by himself, those who were round him with the twelve put questions to him about the purpose of the stories.

Verse ConceptsTeachablenessIsolated PersonsQuestioning ChristTwelve DisciplesJesus Using Parables

And he said to them, To you is given the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside, all things are given in the form of stories;

Verse ConceptsAcademicsMysteryOutsidersUnderstandingOutside The KingdomGod Revealing MysteriesJesus Using Parablessecretsefficiency

And with a number of such stories he gave them his teaching, as they were able to take it:

Verse ConceptsUnderstandingHearing ChristJesus Using Parables

And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

Verse ConceptsJourneyOccupationsPitsTowersVineyardWinepressFortsDigging PitsTreading GrapesBeginning To TeachJesus Using ParablesLeasingHoles In The Ground

And Herod said, I put John to death: but who is this, of whom such stories are given to me? And he had a desire to see him.

Verse ConceptsBeheadingMartyrdom, Methods OfRemoving HeadsKilling DisciplesThe First Sight Of ChristWho Is Jesus?

Associate with these men and purify yourself with them, and pay their expenses so that they can shave their heads. Then everybody will know that there is no truth in these stories about you, but that in your own actions you yourself scrupulously obey the Law.

Verse ConceptsShavingPurifying OneselfPaying For GoodsKeep The Commandments!

Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;

Verse ConceptsFoolish QuestionsFools, Characteristics OfFalse ReligionFablesFalse Doctrines, AvoidanceMythsContinual SinHow Faith ComesTeaching The Way Of Godattentionstories

What more am I to say? For there would not be time to give the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets:

Verse ConceptsDavid, Spiritual Significance Ofheroesgideon

For we did not follow cleverly devised stories or myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty [His grandeur, His authority, His sovereignty].

Verse ConceptsFaith, As A Body Of BeliefsFablesGod, Power OfGospel, Transmission OfHistoryPeter, Preacher And TeacherWitnesses, To Jesus ChristInventionsMythsExperimental KnowledgeApostles, Duties OfSpectatorsMaking Christ KnownChrist's Own GloryThe Fact Of His Coming

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מעלה 
Ma`alah 
degree , steps , stairs , dial , by , come , stories , go up
Usage: 46

שׁלשׁה שׁלושׁה שׁלשׁ שׁלושׁ 
Shalowsh 
Usage: 430

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