29 occurrences in 13 translations

'Turned' in the Bible

When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me, so I answered: I’m at your service.

Verse ConceptsBehold Me!Kings Summoning

From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Uses OfArchers, MenPeople OvercomingKilling Many People

And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.

Verse ConceptsNot Turning Asiderelentless

Then Abner turned and asked, "Is that you, Asahel?" He replied, "Yes it is!"

Verse ConceptsIs It Really?This Is Me

And Abner said, Then go to the right or to the left and put your hands on one of the fighting-men and take his arms. But Asahel would not be turned away from going after Abner.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingNot Turning AsideChanging Direction

When Joab had turned back from pursuing Abner, he gathered all the troops. In addition to Asahel, 19 of David’s soldiers were missing,

Verse ConceptsNineteen

What Ish-bosheth said made Abner furious, so he replied, "A dog's head for Judah is that what I am? Up until today I've kept on showing loyalty to your father Saul's dynasty, to his relatives and friends, and I haven't turned you over to David, but you're charging me today with moral guilt regarding this woman!

Verse ConceptsBlameAnger, HumanLoyaltyOffenceNamed People Angry With OthersPeople Of Judah

So David did not let the ark of the Lord come back to him to the town of David: but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

Verse ConceptsThe Ark In JerusalemPeople Unwilling

and My kindness doth not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Saul, whom I turned aside from before thee,

Verse ConceptsWarnings Against ApostasyApostasy, Ot ExamplesDeposingGod Showed His Lovingkindnesssaul

And he boweth himself, and saith, 'What is thy servant, that thou hast turned unto the dead dog -- such as I?'

Verse ConceptsdogsBowing Before DavidI Am Unimportant

and he writeth in the letter, saying, 'Place ye Uriah over-against the front of the severest battle, and ye have turned back from after him, and he hath been smitten, and hath died.'

Verse ConceptsBetrayalTreachery

So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.

Verse ConceptsRetributionKilling Will HappenTransferring Wives

Jonadab told the king, "Look! Here come the king's sons. This thing has turned out just like your servant reported."

Verse ConceptsMan's Words Fulfilled

And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

Verse ConceptsCoal, Metaphorical UseNo SurvivorsHanding Over PeopleExtinguishingNames Blotted OutDeath Penalty For Killing

However the king said, “Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face.” So Absalom turned to his own house and did not see the king’s face.

Verse ConceptsNo Dealings

Jehovah hath turned back on thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned, and Jehovah doth give the kingdom in to the hand of Absalom thy son; and lo, thou art in thine evil, for a man of blood thou art.'

Verse ConceptsGod Makes Evil ReboundKings Of All Israel Or Judah

it may be Jehovah doth look on mine affliction, and Jehovah hath turned back to me good for his reviling this day.'

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing Their AfflictionGod Sending His SonGod Will Requite

Then Joab blew the trumpet and the army turned back from chasing Israel, for Joab had called for the army to halt.

Verse ConceptsTrumpets To Stop Fighting

And the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.

Verse ConceptsMotionlessnessComing To Rest

And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.

Verse ConceptsSorrowPeople Mourning CatastropheDeath

Thus he turned the hearts of all the men of Judah as one man, so that they sent word to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”

Verse ConceptsUnified PeopleLet Them Go Home

Now Amasa [was] wallowing in the blood in the middle of the highway; when the man saw that all the people stood [there], he turned Amasa over from the highway into the field, and he threw a garment over him because he had seen that all who had come by him had stopped.

Verse ConceptsMotionlessnessComing To RestCovered With BloodTragedy On The StreetsCorpses Of Other People

And the woman cometh unto all the people in her wisdom, and they cut off the head of Sheba son of Bichri, and cast it unto Joab, and he bloweth with a trumpet, and they are scattered from the city, each to his tents, and Joab hath turned back to Jerusalem unto the king.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetBeheadingTrumpets To Stop FightingGroups going home

is to have seven of his sons turned over to us. We will hang them in the presence of the LORD at Gibeah, which belonged to Saul, whom the LORD chose."

Verse ConceptsSeven ChildrenPeople Hung To Death

Then he turned them over to the custody of the Gibeonites, who hanged them on the mountain in the presence of the LORD. All seven of them died at the same time. They were executed during the first days of harvest, just as the barley began to be gathered in.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsMaternal LoveGrainAutumnPeople Hung To Death

For I have kept the ways of the Lordand have not turned from my God to wickedness.

Verse ConceptsOrthodoxy, In Ot

and because all of his decrees remain in my thoughts, I have not turned aside from his statutes,

Verse ConceptsI Keep The Commandments

I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleEnemiescrushes

By you their backs are turned in flight, so that my haters are cut off.

Verse ConceptsTurning One's Back

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