220 occurrences in 13 translations

'Straight' in the Bible

Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.

Verse ConceptsFoodBakersBakingWeights And Measures, DryHasty ActionKneading DoughThree Other ThingsHurrying Others OnOther Volume Measures

And said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has given a sign that he is good and true to my master, by guiding me straight to the house of my master's family.

Verse ConceptsJourneyKindnessGod Has GuidedBless The Lord!God Showed His Lovingkindness

And straight away she took down her vessel from her arm, and said, Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels.

Verse ConceptsWater ContainersMan Providing WaterHasty Action

Now Joseph was well built and good looking. That's why, sometime later, Joseph's master's wife looked straight at Joseph and propositioned him: "Come on! Let's have a little sex!"

Verse ConceptsInvitationsLooking At People For EvilOther WivesSexual Union IntendedsexResisting Temptationmistress

Pharoah sent word to summon Joseph quickly from the dungeon, so they shaved his beard, changed his clothes, and then sent him straight to Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsPrisonersShavingPrisonsAccommodationsChanging ClothesIndividuals RunningClean ClothesKings SummoningPeople Set Free By PeopleEtiquette

Now go quickly to my father, and say to him, Your son Joseph says, God has made me ruler over all the land of Egypt: come down to me straight away:

Verse ConceptsChildren, Good Examples OfPeople Who DelayedHurrying Others On

And the cloud was moved from over the Tent; and straight away Miriam became a leper, as white as snow: and Aaron, looking at Miriam, saw that she was a leper.

Verse ConceptsBodydiseasesMiracles, Nature OfSnowAaron, PrivilegesMiracles Bringing God's JudgmentWhite HairDisease

Then Caleb made signs to the people to keep quiet, and said to Moses, Let us go up straight away and take this land; for we are well able to overcome it.

Verse ConceptsFaith, Nature OfHesitationManlinessPeople OvercomingOvercomingOvercoming Obstaclesexploring

And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsShoutingWallsBattle CriesThings Falling

So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsInvasionsShouting For JoyConquestChantingNot Turning AsidePeople TumblingBattle CriesTrumpets For BattleThings Fallingdrums

Then the secret force came quickly from their place, and running forward when they saw his hand stretched out, went into the town and took it, and put fire to it straight away.

Verse ConceptsSpearsGroups RunningBurning Cities

The LORD looked straight at him and replied, "Go with this determination of yours and deliver Israel from Midian's domination. I've directed you, haven't I?"

Verse Conceptsequipping, spiritualLeaders, PoliticalMissionaries, Task OfRescueDivine DirectionGod Sending ProphetsStrong IndividualsStrengthfaith and strengthCourage And StrengthStrength And Faithstrenghgideon

Then Jotham straight away went in flight to Beer, and was living there for fear of his brother Abimelech.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesEscaping From Peoplebeer

Then quickly crying out to his body-servant, he said to him, Take out your sword and put an end to me straight away, so that men may not say of me, His death was the work of a woman. So the young man put his sword through him, causing his death.

Verse ConceptsArmourArmorbearerApproval To Kill OneselfKilling Named Individuals

But then the smoke began to rise from the city in a column. The army of Benjamin observed behind them that the whole city was going up in flames straight into the sky!

Verse ConceptsLooking Back

Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes looked straight ahead; he was unable to see.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesVisionDimness Of VisionAge At Death

And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.

Verse ConceptsNot Turning AsideDirectionNatural Disasters

They replied, "Yes, straight ahead! But hurry now, for he came to the town today, and the people are making a sacrifice at the high place.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesHurrying Others On

When you come into the town you will see him straight away, before he goes up to the high place for the feast: the people are waiting for his blessing before starting the feast, and after that the guests will take part in it. So go up now and you will see him.

Verse ConceptsPeople EatingPeople Who Blessed Others

And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and sent it from his leather band straight at the Philistine, and the stone went deep into his brow, and he went down to the earth, falling on his face.

Verse ConceptsForeheadsThrowing StonesSlinging Stones

So Achish straight away gave him Ziklag: and for that reason Ziklag has been the property of the kings of Judah to this day.

Verse ConceptsPeople Giving Other ThingsWhere People Live To This Day

And the woman had in the house a young cow, made fat for food; and she put it to death straight away; and she took meal and got it mixed and made unleavened bread;

Verse ConceptsFlourFoodCooking, MethodsBakingKilling Domesticated AnimalsEating CattleBaking BreadKneading Dough

So Asahel ran straight after Abner, following him.

Verse ConceptsNot Turning Asiderelentless

So David asked the Lord what he should do. This time the Lord said to him, "Don't march straight up. Instead, circle around behind them and come against them opposite the trees.

Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodTreesFalling

One time there was a famine during David's reign that went on for three straight years. David sought the LORD, who said, "Saul and his household are guilty because he executed the Gibeonites."

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfFamine, Examples OfFace Of GodGod's Activity In IsraelAnger Of God, Examples OfThree YearsFound GuiltyFamily Problemssaul

He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.

Verse ConceptsTwisted WaysGod Is PureGood Rebounding

Afraid of Solomon, Adonijah also jumped up and headed straight for the horns of the altar.

When some men passed by and noticed the body lying in the middle of the road and the lion standing beside the body, they went straight to the city and told what had happened in the city where the old prophet lived.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Happenings

And straight away when he became king, he sent destruction on all the offspring of Jeroboam; there was not one living person of all the family of Jeroboam whom he did not put to death, so the word of the Lord, which he said by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite, came about;

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtWord Of GodKilling Whole FamiliesNamed Prophets Of The LordWords To Individuals Fulfilled

And straight away when he became king and took his place on the seat of the kingdom, he put to death all the family of Baasha: not one male child of his relations or his friends kept his life.

Verse ConceptsThroneUrinatingDeath Of All MalesKilling Whole FamiliesFamily And Friends

And straight away, when I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will take you away, I have no idea where, so that when I come and give word to Ahab, and he sees you not, he will put me to death: though I, your servant, have been a worshipper of the Lord from my earliest years.

Verse ConceptsYouthChildren, Good Examples OfGodly Fear, Examples OfGuidance Of The Holy SpiritBeing Devoted From YouthGod Carrying PeopleIndividuals Fearing God

Then he said to him, Because you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, straight away when you have gone from me a lion will put you to death. And when he had gone, straight away a lion came rushing at him and put him to death.

Verse ConceptsLionsAnimals KillingIn Danger From Lionsdisobedience

Then straight away everyone took his robe and put it under him on the top of the steps, and, sounding the horn, they said, Jehu is king.

Verse ConceptsCloaksStairwaysTrumpetTrumpets For CelebrationMaking Kings

Straight away, when you get this letter, seeing that your master's sons are with you, and that you have carriages and horses and a walled town and arms;

Verse ConceptsChariots

Then when the burned offering was ended, straight away Jehu said to the armed men and the captains, Go in and put them to death; let not one come out. So they put them to the sword; and, pulling the images to the earth, they went into the holy place of the house of Baal.

Verse ConceptsBurnt offeringShrinesNo EscapeApproval To Kill

Now when he became strong in the kingdom, straight away he put to death those servants who had taken the life of the king his father;

When Athaliah heard all the commotion of the people running around and praising the king, she went straight to the LORD's Temple to confront the people.

Verse ConceptsRunning

And Azariah, the chief priest, and all the priests, looking at him, saw the mark of the leper on his brow, and they sent him out quickly and he himself went out straight away, for the Lord's punishment had come on him.

And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store.

Verse ConceptsSeedStoring

This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

Verse ConceptsWater Irrigation

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Reasons ForFasting, Practice OfAttitudes Of HumilityJourneyRepentance, Examples OfRivers And StreamsTeachablenessCanalsHumbling OneselfFastingFasting And Prayer

And by the fountain gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.

Verse ConceptsStairwaysNamed GatesSteps

when a strong wind came straight out of the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people, and they died. I alone escaped to tell you!"

Verse ConceptsStormsActing AloneFour CornersDestruction Of HousesFour SidesDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsDeathHurricanes

And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheUnborn FetusesNever Being Born

He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.

Verse ConceptsUnprofitable SinsGod Has ForgivenWe Have Sinned

It keeps its tail straight like a cedar; [the] sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.

Verse ConceptsCedarSinewsmuscles

He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.

Verse ConceptsPurity, Moral And SpiritualTwisted WaysGod Is PureGood ReboundingBeing Yourselfmyself

He leveled a path for His anger [to give it free run];He did not spare their souls from death,But turned over their lives to the plague.

Verse ConceptsPestilenceHow Death Is InevitableNot SparingDeath Of The Wicked

He led them in a straight way to find a city where they could live.

Verse ConceptsCity Of GodStraight PathsLearning The Right Way

Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.

Verse ConceptsFalse WaysHating Evil

To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:

Verse ConceptsWisdom, Human ImportanceTeaching The Way Of Godfairnessbehavior

Until an arrow pierced his liver [with a mortal wound];Like a bird fluttering straight into the net,He did not know that it would cost him his life.

Verse ConceptsLiversIgnorance Of EvilArrowsDeer

All of them are straight to him who understands, and upright to those who find knowledge.

Verse ConceptsStraight ThingsDiscernment

calling to those who pass by,who go straight ahead on their paths:

Verse ConceptsPassing By

The righteousness of the blameless will make straight their way, but the wicked person will fall by his own wickedness.

Verse ConceptsGod's WaysThe Insecurity Of The WickedDistinctives Of Righteousnesswickedness

Foolishness brings joy to one without sense,but a man with understanding walks a straight path.

Verse ConceptsDiscernment, Nature OfDestitutesWisdom, Human Importance

There is a way which seems right to a man and appears straight before him,But its end is the way of death.

Verse ConceptsEvil WaysFalse ConfidenceGod's WaysLife, Of FaithWorldly WisdomSin Producing DeathSin Produces Death

The way of the guilty is [exceedingly] crooked,But as for the pure, his conduct is upright.

Verse ConceptsInnocence, Teaching OnCharacter Of WickedDeviousnessTwisted WaysPure People

A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey,And a rod for the backs of fools [who refuse to learn].

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfBridlesBackBeatingsWhipsWhippingBinding As Animals

The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.

Verse ConceptsBeing In DebtWisdom, Human ImportanceHiding From Peopleconsequences

That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

Verse ConceptsCrookednessUncountableTwisted WaysStraightening

Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

Verse ConceptsTwistingStraightening

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

Verse ConceptsFilling PlacesMountains RemovedSmoothnessPutting Things DownThings Lifted UpHighways

And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesdecisionsGuardiansGuidance, God's Promises OfWalking In DarknessPaths Of BelieversStraight ThingsLight Of God's PeopleNot Knowing WhereDarknessBlindnessguidancePathscredibility

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

Verse ConceptsBattlesIronCrookednessBrassStraighteningSmoothnessGod Going BeforeIron ObjectsBronze GatesSolar EclipseBreaking Chains

I have stirred him up in righteousness, And all his ways I make straight, He doth build My city, and My captivity doth send out, Not for price, nor for bribe, said Jehovah of Hosts.

Verse ConceptsBuilding CitiesVictory, As An Act Of GodStraight PathsFree Of Chargefree

Small profit have you had from those who, from your earliest days, got great profit out of you; they have gone in flight, every one straight before him, and you have no saviour.

Verse ConceptsNo One Can SaveDirection

He enters into peace [through death];They rest in their beds (graves),Each one who walked uprightly [following God’s will, living with integrity].

Verse ConceptsPeace, Believers Experience OfRest, EternalThe Righteous PerishingDeath Of The RighteousSleeping Peacefully

They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.

Verse ConceptsWay, TheCrookednessPaths Of The WickedPathways Of SinSpiritual IgnoranceUnrestTwistingNo PeacePaths

When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.

Verse ConceptsDevelopmentUnique Eventsrebirth

News is given of destruction on destruction; all the land is made waste: suddenly my tents, straight away my curtains, are made waste.

Verse ConceptsSuddenly

They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Verse ConceptsGod, Fatherhood OfAdoption, nature ofFirstbornIntimacyPeople Of God, In OtSpring Of WaterWeepingAnswered PromisesSpiritual AdoptionFirstborn SonsStraight PathsNot StumblingBrookssupplication

A measuring line will once again stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn toward Goah.

Verse ConceptsMeasuring Rod

“Behold, I am going to bring terror on you,”Says the Lord God of hosts,“From all who are around you;And each of you will be driven out headlong,And there will be no one to gather the fugitives together.

Verse ConceptsPeople Appalled

And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.

Verse ConceptsFeetBrassStraight ThingsSparklingThings Like BronzeTypes Of FeetColor

Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

Verse ConceptsNot Turning AsideAngel's WingsGoing ForwardTouching Holy Things

And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.

Verse ConceptsMoving ForwardNot Turning AsideGoing Forward

And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.

Verse ConceptsCovering The BodyStraight ThingsAngel's Wings

And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.

Verse ConceptsHeavenly FacesNot Turning Aside

I'll make sure that you go straight to the Pit, into the lowest part of the earth, where you'll be with people who lived in ancient times. You'll keep company there with the dead, who have gone into the Pit. As a result, your city won't be inhabited. Meanwhile, I will display my glory in the land of the living.

Verse ConceptsPitsArchaeologyEmpty CitiesGoing Down To The PitAbasing PeoplePits As A Term For Graves

Everyone who handles an oar will abandon ship, they'll head straight for dry land,

Verse ConceptsMarinersMan Going DownRowingsailing

They won't be buried with dead warriors from ancient times, who went straight to Sheol, buried with their war weapons, with their swords placed under their heads and their shields laid on top of their bones, since they spread terror throughout the land of the living.

Verse ConceptsIniquity, Punishment ForHell, Punishment OfWeaponsFearing Other PeopleLife And DeathState Of The Dead

When the people who live in the land come into the LORD's presence during the festivals, whoever enters through the northern gate is to leave through the southern gate, and whoever enters through the southern gate is to leave through the northern gate. No one is to leave by the same route that he enters, but instead is to go straight out.

Verse ConceptsPilgrimageNot Turning AsideNorth GatesSouth GatesFestivals Observed

"At that time I, Daniel, had been mourning for three straight weeks.

Verse ConceptsTen Or More DaysFastingFasting And Prayergrieving

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
ישׁר 
Yashar 
Usage: 26

ישׁר 
Yashar 
Usage: 119

מהר 
Mahar 
Usage: 68

מישׁר מישׁור 
Miyshowr 
Usage: 23

עבר 
`eber 
Usage: 90

עתּה 
`attah 
Usage: 431

פּתאם פּתאום 
Pith'owm 
Usage: 25

תּקן 
Taqan 
Usage: 3

ἀνορθόω 
Anorthoo 
make straight , set up , lift up
Usage: 3

ἐξαύτης 
Exautes 
Usage: 6

ἐπιτιμάω 
Epitimao 
Usage: 28

εὐθέως 
Eutheos 
Usage: 61

εὐθυδρομέω 
Euthudromeo 
Usage: 2

εὐθύνω 
Euthuno 
Usage: 2

εὐθύς 
Euthus 
Usage: 12

ὀρθός 
Orthos 
Usage: 2

παραχρῆμα 
Parachrema 
Usage: 19

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