42 occurrences

'Substance' in the Bible

and what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, with their households, and their tents, and all the living substance that belonged to them, in the midst of all Israel.

Verse ConceptsSwallowing

Bless, Jehovah, his substance! And let the work of his hands please thee; Crush the loins of his adversaries, And of them that hate him, that they may never rise again!

For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave no part to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, and their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.

Verse ConceptsTribes Of Israel

And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagarite. All these were comptrollers of the substance which was king David's.

And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the princes of the divisions that ministered to the king, and the captains over thousands, and the captains over hundreds, and the comptrollers of all the substance and possessions of the king and of his sons, with the chamberlains, and the mighty men, and all the men of valour, unto Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsCommanderRankAssembling Leaders

behold, Jehovah will smite with a great stroke thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance,

Verse ConceptsTragedy

and they came up into Judah, and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was no son left him, except Jehoahaz the youngest of his sons.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest Child

And he ordered that the king's portion should be taken from his substance for the burnt-offerings: for the morning and evening burnt-offerings, for the burnt-offerings of the sabbaths, and of the new moons, and of the set feasts, as it is written in the law of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsNew Moon Festival

And he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God gave him very much substance.

Verse ConceptsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of Sin

And Josiah gave for the children of the people a heave-offering of the flocks, lambs and goats, all for the passover-offerings, for all that were present to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.

Verse ConceptsThree Thousand And UpThirty Thousand And Up

And I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right 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 that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be confiscated, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.

Verse ConceptsCriminalselders, as community leadersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfConfiscationAnarchyExcommunication

And his substance was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants; and this man was greater than all the children of the east.

Verse ConceptsLivestockAbundance, MaterialLargenessSheepShepherds, As OccupationsYokesGod Is ImmanentFour To Five HundredThree Thousand And UpSeven ThousandOwning LivestockFour And Five HundredGreat IndividualsMultitudes Of DonkeysPossessing SheepWealthy Peoplepossessions

Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? Thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is spread abroad in the land.

Verse ConceptsSatan, Work OfBlessed By GodGod's ProtectionFamily FirstProtecting Your Familypossessions

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.

Verse ConceptsHarvestNot Reaping What You SowOvercoming Obstacles

Did I say, Bring unto me, and make me a present from your substance?

Verse ConceptsAvoiding Bribes

He shall not become rich, neither shall his substance continue, and their possessions shall not extend upon the earth.

Verse ConceptsTransient WealthDrawbacks To Riches

Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.

Verse ConceptsStormsGod Dispensing WindThe Storms Of Life

From men who are thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this age: their portion is in this life, and their belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure; they have their fill of sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their children.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual MalnutritionLimitednessBabiesThriftSins Of The FathersLack Of HolinessFutility Of Worldly Pursuits

we shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

Verse ConceptsPlunderingFilling Houses

and if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

Verse ConceptsRestitutionSevenfoldKarmathievespotential

that I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasuries.

Verse ConceptsTreasureLoving GoodWisdom Gives Wealth

Many waters cannot quench love, Neither do the floods drown it: Even if a man gave all the substance of his house for love, It would utterly be contemned.

Verse ConceptsFlowing WaterQuenchingLove Of Jesus, To The SaintsLove Towards Christ, The Nature OfRomance

Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, and in all thy borders;

Verse ConceptsTreasureFree Of Chargeborders

My mountain in the field, thy substance, all thy treasures will I give for a spoil, thy high places, because of sin throughout thy borders.

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesTreasureborders

Tarshish dealt with thee by reason of the abundance of all substance; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they furnished thy markets.

Verse ConceptsLeadIronMineralsSilverTinCommerce

Damascus dealt with thee because of the multitude of thy handiworks, by reason of the abundance of all substance, with wine of Helbon, and white wool.

Verse ConceptsSheepWoolCommerceWhite Hair

Thy substance, and thy markets, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, they that repair thy leaks, and they that barter with thee, and all thy men of war that are in thee, along with all thine assemblage which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy fall.

Verse ConceptsMarinersSoldiersSealing ThingsThings Fallingsailing

When thy wares went forth over the seas, thou filledst many peoples; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the abundance of thy substance and of thy merchandise.

For the king of the north shall return, and shall set forth a multitude greater than the former; and shall certainly come at the end of the times of years with a great army and with much substance.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalMany CombatantsReturn From The Northarmy

In time of peace shall he enter even into the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers: he shall scatter among them prey, and spoil, and substance, and he shall plan his devices against the fortified places, even for a time.

Verse ConceptsEvil PlansShort Time For ActionDividing The Spoil

And he shall return into his land with great substance; and his heart shall be against the holy covenant; and he shall practise, and return to his own land.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingSatan, Agents OfIndividuals going homeCovenant Made At Sinai

In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away captive his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.

Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity, nor have looked, even thou, on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither shouldest thou have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;

Verse ConceptsRejoicing In EvilNatural Disasters

Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion, for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass; and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples; and I will devote their gain to Jehovah, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.

Verse ConceptsBronzeHornsProfitsPunishment, Nature OfThreshingConsecrationGrinding PeopleThings Like IronFeet Of Creatures

Bible Theasaurus

Center (51 instances)
Constitution (1 instance)
Content (49 instances)
Essence (7 instances)
Gist (1 instance)