135 occurrences in 12 translations

'Subject' in the Bible

They were subject to Chedorlaomer for 12 years, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

Verse ConceptsTen To Fourteen Years

‘If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service.

Verse ConceptsSlavery, In OtPoor People

Then the priests of the descendants of Levi are to step forward, because the LORD your God chose them to serve and pronounce blessings in his name. Every case of dispute and assault is to be subject to their ruling.

Verse Conceptselection, responsibilities ofBenedictionsPriests, Function In Ot TimesPeople Involved In JudgementPeople Blessing

But be careful when you are setting apart the riches for the Lord. If you take any of it, you will make the Israelite camp subject to annihilation and cause a disaster.

Verse ConceptsCursing IsraelUnder The Ban

The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation. I will no longer be with you, unless you destroy what has contaminated you.

Verse ConceptsPowerlessnessCursing IsraelUnder The Ban

Zeb'ulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Na'halol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became subject to forced labor.

Verse ConceptsLiving TogetherForced Labour

Naph'tali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-she'mesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, but dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth-she'mesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.

Verse ConceptsLiving TogetherForced Labour

the Amorites persisted in dwelling in Har-heres, in Ai'jalon, and in Sha-al'bim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily upon them, and they became subject to forced labor.

Verse ConceptsForced Labour

The Israelites were subject to King Eglon of Moab for eighteen years.

Verse Concepts15 To 20 YearsThose Subjected To People

Moab became subject to Israel that day, and the land was peaceful 80 years.

Verse ConceptsConquest80 To 100 YearsTime Of Peace

He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. The Lord made David victorious wherever he went.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsGarrisonsThose Subjected To PeopleEarthly Armiespreservation

When all the kings who were subject to Hadadezer saw they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subjects of Israel. The Arameans were no longer willing to help the Ammonites.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In Society

and Adoram was over the men subject to taskwork; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;

Verse ConceptsRecordersForced Labour

Solomon said, "If he is a loyal subject, not a hair of his head will be harmed, but if he is found to be a traitor, he will die."

Verse ConceptsMercy, Examples OfHeadsHairs ProtectedHair

Then King Solomon took this oath in the name of the LORD: "May God do so to me, and more besides, if Adonijah hasn't endangered his life by bringing up this subject.

Verse ConceptsPromises, Human

and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.

Verse ConceptsOfficersPalacesForced Labour

And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to taskwork.

Verse ConceptsTens Of ThousandsOne MonthTwo To Four MonthsForced Labour

Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to taskwork; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. And king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsChariotsHasty ActionForced LabourKilling Named Individuals

King Shalmaneser of Assyria threatened him; Hoshea became his subject and paid him tribute.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyTaxationThose Subjected To People

He put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. The Lord made David victorious wherever he went.

Verse ConceptsGarrisons

When the servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and became subject to and served him. And the Arameans (Syrians) were not willing to help the Ammonites anymore.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In Society

Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to taskwork; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones. And king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

DATE: First year of Cyrus the King FROM: King Cyrus SUBJECT: The Temple of God in Jerusalem

Verse ConceptsFoundationsBreadthProclamationsThe Second TempleDimensions Of BuildingsThe First Temple

And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people."

Verse ConceptsdaughtersBodyPower, HumanLike People By NatureNo Earthly Inheritance

They were subject to the commands of the king, who provided for the singers daily.

Verse ConceptsSingingMusic To Celebrate

Their enemies oppressed them; they were subject to their authority.

Verse ConceptsThose OppressedThose Subjected To People

I said to myself regarding the sons of men, “God is surely testing them in order for them to see that [by themselves, without God] they are [only] animals.”

Verse ConceptsGod Testing PeopleEverything Happening For A ReasonTestshumanityordermyself

“Yet there will be a tenth portion in it,And it will again be subject to burning,Like a terebinth or an oakWhose stump remains when it is felled.The holy seed is its stump.”

Verse ConceptsRemnantNames And Titles For The ChristianTreesStumps Of A TreeA Tenth Of People

But they will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines to the west, and they will plunder the people to the east. They'll lay their hands on Edom and Moab, and the Ammonites will be subject to them.

Verse ConceptsThe Prophecy Towards AmmonThe Prophecy Towards Edom

Elam took up the quiverWith the chariots, infantry and horsemen;And Kir uncovered the shield.

Verse ConceptsQuiversThings Stripped

And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become subject to taskwork.

Verse ConceptsSwordsGod KillingGod Will Kill The PeoplesForced Labour

“So I will profane the officials of the sanctuary,And I will consign Jacob to destruction and [I will subject] Israel to defamation and abuse.

Verse ConceptsJacob, The Patriarch

"Indeed, long ago you threw off my authority and refused to be subject to me. You said, 'I will not serve you.' Instead, you gave yourself to other gods on every high hill and under every green tree, like a prostitute sprawls out before her lovers.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryServanthood, And Worship Of GodShrinesYokesNot Serving GodSacrificing On The High PlacesWorship At TreesBreaking Chains

"Cut off your hair and throw it away; let your lamentations rise on the barren heights, because the LORD has rejected and abandoned the generation that is subject to his wrath.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsHairsLamentingMourningRejection Of God, Results OfSongsBarbersAnger Of God, ConsequencesCutting HairAccompaniments Of Mourning

I'll cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and people will eat the flesh of their neighbors in the siege and in the distress to which their enemies and those seeking their lives will subject them."'"

Verse ConceptsBad ChildrenCannibalismAttacks On Jerusalem Foretold

This whole area will become a desolate wasteland. These nations will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years.'

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine Gift70 To 80 YearsServing Kings

then I will make this house [the temple] like Shiloh, and I will make this city [subject to] the curse of all nations of the earth [because it will be so vile in their sight].”’”

Verse ConceptsThe House Of God At Shiloh

I have at this time placed all these nations of yours under the power of my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I have even made all the wild animals subject to him.

Verse Conceptselection, responsibilities ofCivil authoritiesAuthority, of human institutionsMinistry, Nature OfRulersServants Of The LordWild Beasts SubduedGifts Of GodOther Gifts Of God

But suppose a nation or a kingdom will not be subject to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Suppose it will not submit to the yoke of servitude to him. I, the Lord, affirm that I will punish that nation. I will use the king of Babylon to punish it with war, starvation, and disease until I have destroyed it.

Verse ConceptsPlaguesYokesFamine Coming From God

So do not listen to your prophets or to those who claim to predict the future by divination, by dreams, by consulting the dead, or by practicing magic. They keep telling you, 'You do not need to be subject to the king of Babylon.'

Verse ConceptsListeningMediumsFortunetellingOccultismDivinationMisleading DreamsFalse Prophets DenouncedAvoid SorceryDo Not Listen!SorceryDreams And False Prophetsmagic

Things will go better for the nation that submits to the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon and is subject to him. I will leave that nation in its native land. Its people can continue to farm it and live in it. I, the Lord, affirm it!"'"

Verse ConceptsPloughmenServing Kings

I told King Zedekiah of Judah the same thing. I said, "Submit to the yoke of servitude to the king of Babylon. Be subject to him and his people. Then you will continue to live.

Verse ConceptsKeeping Oneself AliveServing Kings

There is no reason why you and your people should die in war or from starvation or disease! That's what the Lord says will happen to any nation that will not be subject to the king of Babylon.

Verse ConceptsPestilenceGod KillingFamine KillingGod Kills

Do not listen to them. Be subject to the king of Babylon. Then you will continue to live. Why should this city be made a pile of rubble?'"

Verse ConceptsKeeping Oneself AliveServing KingsServingSurrender

But they will be subject to the Lord their God and to the Davidic ruler whom I will raise up as king over them.

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDLast DaysShepherds, As Kings And LeadersNames And Titles For ChristServant Leadershipheroes

I have become the [object of] ridicule to all my people,And [the subject of] their mocking song all the day.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofMockeryRidicule, Objects OfSongsUnceasingContinual Hardship

Look at their sitting and their rising [their actions and secret counsels];I am their mocking song [the subject of their ridicule].

Verse ConceptsHabitual Getting UpFun

And I will set my face against that person, and I will make him to [be] a sign and [make him] into [the subject of] proverbs; and I will cut him off from the midst of my people, and you will know I [am] Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsFace Of GodMarks On PeopleGod Opposing

Then it sprouted and grew and became a low, spreading vine whose branches turned [in submission] toward him, but its roots remained under it. So it became a vine and yielded shoots and sent out branches.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingSprouting PlantsSmall ThingsSproutingThose Subjected To People

"For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Bring up an army against them and subject them to terror and plunder.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingPeople OpposedPeople Appalled

It has tried my patience; yet its thick rot is not removed from it. Subject its rot to the fire!

Verse ConceptsPossessions Decaying

Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I will subject you to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.

Verse ConceptsBlood, Figurative UsePursuingPursuing PeopleHating EvilKilling Will Happen

So prophesy and say: 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: Surely because they have made you desolate and crushed you from all directions, so that you have become the property of the rest of the nations, and have become the subject of gossip and slander among the people,

Verse ConceptsVain TalkPressingFaintnessTaking PossessionUnder One's BreathFungossiping

I will no longer subject you to the nations' insults; no longer will you bear the shame of the peoples, and no longer will you bereave your nation, declares the sovereign Lord.'"

Verse ConceptsDo Not HinderInsulting Other PeopleFunhomecoming

As a result they will conquer those left in Edom and all the nations subject to my rule." The Lord, who is about to do this, is speaking!

Verse ConceptsTaking PossessionThe Gospel To The Nations

Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of the whole land; for everyone who steals will be cut off according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears [oaths falsely] shall be cut off according to the writing on the other side.

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSwearing Oaths FalselyThe Curse Of The LawSwearing

“You have heard that it was said to our ancestors, Do not murder, and whoever murders will be subject to judgment.

Verse ConceptsLaw, Ten CommandmentsMurderChrist's Knowledge Of The ScripturesGod Speaking Of OldDo Not Murder

For I also am a man subject to authority [of a higher rank], with soldiers subject to me; and I say to one, ‘Go!’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come!’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this!’ and he does it.”

Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTServants, GoodHuman Authority, Nature OfAuthority Delegated To PeopleMen's OrdersObeying PeopleExamples Of Good Servants

And he was speaking openly [about] the subject, and Peter took him aside [and] began to rebuke him.

Verse ConceptsInsightPeter, The DiscipleRebukePlainness

"What is the subject you are discussing?" He asked them.

Verse ConceptsDiscussions

In the house the disciples began questioning Him again about this.

Verse ConceptsTeachablenessQuestioning ChristThe Disciples Words

And fear came upon all who dwelt round about them; and in the whole hill-country of Judaea all these things were the subject of conversation.

Verse ConceptsRumoursTerror Of God

For I also am a man subject to authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTHuman Authority, Nature OfAuthority Delegated To PeoplePeople Sending PeopleMen's OrdersObeying People

"What is the subject," He asked them, "on which you are talking so earnestly, as you walk?" And they stood still, looking full of sorrow.

Verse ConceptsHealthSadnessUnhappinessWalkingMotionlessnessComing To RestConversationWhat Is The Matter?Other Sad People

to whom our fathers would not be subject, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forReturning to the oldDesires Of The Heart

When they heard Paul speak of a resurrection of dead men, some began to scoff. But others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."

Verse ConceptsAbuse, To God's PeopleGospel, Responses ToInsultsMockeryNosesPreaching, Effects OfSaying RepeatedlyAre The Dead Raised?Mocking Christflexibility

After some days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and listened to him on the subject of faith in Christ Jesus.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds of

the promise which our twelve tribes, worshipping day and night with intense devotedness, hope to have made good to them. It is on the subject of this hope, Sir, that I am accused by the Jews.

Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NighteagernessNightTrust, Importance OfMessianic HopeTwelve TribesIsrael HardenedPeople Accusing People

So they arranged a day with him and came to him in considerable numbers at the house of the friends who were entertaining him. And then, with solemn earnestness, he explained to them the subject of the Kingdom of God, endeavouring from morning till evening to convince them about Jesus, both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.

Verse ConceptsExplanationsKingdom Of God, Coming OfMorningDealing With Many PeopleFrom Morning Till EveningChrist And The ScripturesStudying The LawWritten In The Prophets

Well then, are we [Jews] better off than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks (Gentiles) are under the control of sin and subject to its power.

Verse ConceptsForgiveness, DivineAdvantagesFar Be It!The Gospel To Jew And GentileAll Have Sinned

Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.

Verse ConceptsLast JudgmentMutenessSilenceUnder The LawAccountabilityGuilt

Brethren, do you not know--for I am writing to people acquainted with the Law--that it is during our lifetime that we are subject to the Law?

Verse ConceptsChristians, Names OfSinUnder The LawWhilst Alive

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

Verse ConceptsAgriculture, Effects Of FallDecayNot My Will But God'sUseless EndeavourThe Universe AffectedliberationMoral Decay

Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

Verse Conceptsethics, socialLeaders, PoliticalBe Subject To PeopleRespecting Authorityconscience

Now as to things which have been sacrificed to idols. This is a subject which we already understand--because we all have knowledge of it. Knowledge, however, tends to make people conceited; it is love that builds us up.

Verse ConceptsAcademicsPride, OriginArrogance, In The ChurchBuilding Up The ChurchKnowingDrawbacks To Knowledge

For if someone sees you, a person having knowledge, eating in an idol’s temple, then if he is weak, will he not be encouraged to eat things sacrificed to idols [and violate his own convictions]?

Verse ConceptsKnowingFood For Other godsWeaknessEating Meatconscience

To those who do not have the Law, I became like a man who does not have the Law in order to win those who do not have the Law. However, I am not free from God's Law, but I'm subject to the Messiah's law.

Verse ConceptsJustification By FaithThe Law Of ChristWithout The LawStaying Strong And Not Giving UpStaying PositivePositive ThinkingNever Giving UpNot Being Alonelawactingfreeorderflexibilitychrist

It is important, brethren, that you should have clear knowledge on the subject of spiritual gifts.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual IgnoranceSpiritualMisunderstandingsSpiritual GiftsGifts And Talentsignoranceenergy

Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

Verse ConceptsChurchBeing A WomenWives, Duties OfGod ForbiddingThe churchWomen's RolesspeakingBeing A Woman Of Godorderwomanassertiveness

for all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, it is evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him,

Verse ConceptsGospel, Essence OfThings UnderInteraction Of Father And SonSubject To ChristPutting God First

And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.

Verse ConceptsJesus Christ, Son Of GodThe Submission Of ChristGod's FullnessInteraction Of Father And SonSubject To GodPutting God FirstGod Turning Bad Things Into Goodeverything

that ye also be subject to such, and to every one who is working with us and labouring;

Bible Theasaurus

Affair (8 instances)
Argument (61 instances)
Constrained (12 instances)
Content (49 instances)
Dependent (47 instances)
Domestic (43 instances)
Downtrodden (6 instances)
Enslaved (25 instances)
Follower (14 instances)
Issue (89 instances)
Liable (15 instances)
Matter (380 instances)
Menial (8 instances)
National (18 instances)
Subject (135 instances)
Subjugate (5 instances)
Theme (2 instances)
Topic (3 instances)

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ὑποτάσσω 
Hupotasso 
Usage: 39

כּבשׁ 
Kabash 
Usage: 14

כּנע 
Kana` 
Usage: 36

δουλαγωγέω 
Doulagogeo 
Usage: 1

ἔνοχος 
Enochos 
in danger of , guilty of , subject to
Usage: 5

ὁμοιοπαθής 
Homoiopathes 
Usage: 2

ὑποταγή 
Hupotage 
Usage: 4

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