62 occurrences in 6 translations

'Areas' in the Bible

Moreover, the open field areas of their cities must not be sold, because that is their perpetual possession.

Verse ConceptsProperty, Land

Get up now, resume your journey, heading for the Amorite hill country, to all its areas including the arid country, the highlands, the Shephelah, the Negev, and the coastal plain -- all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsSeashoresRiver EuphratesAs Far As The EuphratesThe ShephelahMoving To A New Place

instead of at the place the LORD will choose in one of the tribal areas. There you may offer burnt offerings, and there you may do everything that I'm commanding you."

The descendants of Joseph were considered as two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites were allotted no territory, though they were assigned cities in which to live, along with the grazing areas for their cattle and possessions.

Verse ConceptsTribes Of Israel

But the men of Manasseh were unable to conquer these cities; the Canaanites managed to remain in those areas.

Verse ConceptsNot Driving Them OutUnable To Expel

because the hill country will be yours also. It is a forest; clear it and its outlying areas will be yours. You can also drive out the Canaanites, even though they have iron chariots and are strong.”

Verse ConceptsIron Objectsreinforcement

in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said, "The Lord told Moses to assign us cities in which to live along with the grazing areas for our cattle."

So the Israelites assigned these cities and their grazing areas to the Levites from their own holdings, as the Lord had instructed.

So the Israelites assigned to the Levites by lot these cities and their grazing areas, as the Lord had instructed Moses.

They assigned them Kiriath Arba (Arba was the father of Anak), that is, Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding grazing areas.

Ain, Juttah, and Beth Shemesh, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of nine cities taken from these two tribes.

Verse ConceptsNine Creatures

Anathoth, and Almon, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of four cities.

Verse ConceptsPriesthood, In OtFour Cities

The priests descended from Aaron received thirteen cities and their grazing areas.

Verse ConceptsAaron, As High PriestThirteen

Kibzaim, and Beth Horon, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of four cities.

Verse ConceptsFour Cities

Aijalon, and Gath Rimmon, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of four cities.

Verse ConceptsFour Cities

From the half-tribe of Manasseh they assigned Taanach and Gath Rimmon, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of two cities.

Verse ConceptsTwo Cities

The rest of the Kohathite clans received ten cities and their grazing areas.

Verse ConceptsTen Things

They assigned to the Gershonite clans of the Levites the following cities: from the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan (a city of refuge for one who committed manslaughter) and Beeshtarah, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of two cities;

Verse ConceptsTwo Cities

Jarmuth, and En Gannim, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of four cities;

Verse ConceptsFour Cities

Helkath, and Rehob, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of four cities;

Verse ConceptsFour Cities

from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee (a city of refuge for one who committed manslaughter), Hammoth Dor, and Kartan, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of three cities.

Verse ConceptsThree Cities

The Gershonite clans received thirteen cities and their grazing areas.

Verse ConceptsThirteen

Dimnah, and Nahalal, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of four cities;

Verse ConceptsFour Cities

Kedemoth, and Mephaath, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of four cities;

Verse ConceptsFour Cities

Heshbon, and Jazer, along with the grazing areas of each -- a total of four cities.

Verse ConceptsFour Cities

The Levites received within the land owned by the Israelites forty-eight cities in all and their grazing areas.

Verse ConceptsForties

Each of these cities had grazing areas around it; they were alike in this regard.

The men of Manasseh did not conquer Beth Shan, Taanach, or their surrounding towns. Nor did they conquer the people living in Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo or their surrounding towns. The Canaanites managed to remain in those areas.

In those days there was no king in Israel; there was a man, a Levite, who dwelled as a foreigner in the remote areas of the hill country of Ephraim. And he took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesKingship, HumanBethlehemNo King

And he said to him, "We [are] crossing over from Bethlehem in Judah up to the remote areas of the hill country of Ephraim, where I [am] from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, but [now] I am going to Yahweh's house, but no one {took me in to spend the night}.

Verse ConceptsNot Welcoming People

The Hebrews who had previously been with the Philistines, who had gone up with them from the surrounding areas to the camp, even they joined Israel and those who were with Saul and Jonathan.

Verse ConceptsTurning Against Menreinforcement

Ahab told Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grazing areas so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to kill some of the animals."

Verse ConceptsGrassMulesFeeding AnimalsKept Alive By Men

By the hand of your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, 'With my many chariots I have gone up [to] the height of the mountains. [To] the remote areas of Lebanon, I have felled the tallest of its cedars, the choicest of its cypresses. I have entered the place of overnight lodging. Even [to] the edge of forest of its fertile land.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of ConfidenceClimbingChariotsCedarWorldly Ambition ExamplesFalse Confidence, Examples OfFelling Trees

Then he did away with the idolatrous priests the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense at the high places in the cities of Judah and in the areas surrounding Jerusalem. They had burned incense to Baal, and to the sun, moon, constellations, and the whole heavenly host.

Verse ConceptsConstellationsHigh PlacesMoonPriests, Institution In Ot TimesShrinesIncense Offered AmissIdolatrous Worship Of The Moon

These were the areas where Aaron's descendants lived: The following belonged to the Kohathite clan, for they received the first allotment:

David gave to his son Solomon the blueprints for the temple porch, its buildings, its treasuries, its upper areas, its inner rooms, and the room for atonement.

Verse ConceptsPorchesBlueprintsStores Of Food

The gold nails weighed 50 shekels; he also plated the upper areas with gold.

Verse Conceptsweight

Josiah removed all the detestable idols from all the areas belonging to the Israelites and encouraged all who were in Israel to worship the Lord their God. Throughout the rest of his reign they did not turn aside from following the Lord God of their ancestors.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionReformation

So I stationed people behind the lowest sections of the wall, at the vulnerable areas. I stationed them by families with their swords, spears, and bows.

Verse ConceptsFamily SolidaritySpearsProtecting Your Familyvulnerability

It was found recorded there that Mordecai had reported about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs who guarded the entrance to the restricted areas of the palace, and that they had conspired to assassinate King Ahasuerus.

Verse ConceptsDoorkeepersAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleConspiracy

Therefore the Jewish people in the rural areas who live in unwalled towns make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a holiday for joy and feasting, and people send presents to one another.

Verse ConceptsExcitementMonth 12The CountrysidePeople Providing Food

Even those living in the most remote areas are awestruck by your acts; you cause those living in the east and west to praise you.

Verse ConceptsFear, Caused BySunsetsTerror Of GodPeople From Far AwayAweSunSunshine

The reeds by the Nile, by the mouth of the river,and all the cultivated areas of the Nilewill wither, blow away, and vanish.

Verse ConceptsBooks

By the hand of your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said, "With my many chariots, I myself have gone up [the] height of [the] mountains, [to] the remote areas of Lebanon. And I cut off {its tall cedars}, the choicest of its junipers. And I came [to] the height of its limit, the forest of its orchard.

Verse ConceptsChariotsCedarFelling TreesTrusting In Chariots

People will buy fields for money, sign deeds, seal them, and call witnesses in the land of Benjamin, in the areas around Jerusalem, in the towns of Judah, the towns of the hill country, the towns of the Shephelah, and the towns of the Negev, for I'll restore their fortunes,' declares the LORD."

Verse ConceptsRestoring NationsSignaturesThe Shephelah

In the towns of the hill country, in the towns of the Shephelah, in the towns of the Negev, in the territory of Benjamin, in the areas around Jerusalem, and in the towns of Judah flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them,' says the LORD."

Verse ConceptsHillsThe Shephelah

who will be given its graves in [the] remote areas of [the] pit, and its assembly will be all around its grave, all of them killed, fallen by the sword, [those] who spread terror in [the] land of [the] living.

Verse ConceptsGoing Down To The PitFearing Other PeopleLife And Death

Gomer and all of its troops, Beth Togarmah, the remote areas of the north, and with all of its troops and many peoples with them.

Verse ConceptsNorthern Coalition

Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish (southern Spain), with all its young lions (villages) will say to you, ‘Have you come to take spoil? Have you assembled your hordes [of fighting men] to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take great spoil?’”’

Verse ConceptsPlunderingTradeAmericaAmerica In Biblical Prophecy

and [so] you will come from your place, from [the] remote areas of [the] north, you and many people with you, {horsemen} all of them, a great crowd and a vast army,

Verse ConceptsGog and MagogOut Of The North

and I will turn you around, and I will drag you along, and I will bring you up from [the] remote areas of [the] north, and I will bring you against the mountains of Israel,

Verse ConceptsOut Of The NorthCausing People To TurnThe Mountains Of Israel

Also the width of the front of the temple and that of the separate areas along the east side totaled a hundred cubits.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Buildings

{Above} the doorway and up to the inner temple and on the outside, and on all of the wall {all the way around} in the inner and in the outer [areas] [were] {patterns},

Then he told me, "The north and south chamber, which are opposite the courtyard, are consecrated areas where the priests who approach the LORD will eat consecrated offerings and lay the consecrated grain offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings, because the area is holy.

Verse Conceptsdrawing near to GodGuilt OfferingSin OfferingAnimal Sacrifices, Meal OfferingAccommodationsFood For Priests DefinedRegulations For Cereal OfferingsRegulations For The Sin Offering

He measured a wall that encompassed all four sides, 500 hundred long and 500 wide, dividing between the sacred and common areas.

Verse ConceptsSquaresFour CornersDimensions Of WallsFour SidesMeasuring Jerusalem And The LandLack Of Holiness

In the four corners of the outer court there were enclosed courts, 70 feet long by 52½ feet wide. All four corner areas had the same dimensions.

Verse ConceptsFour CornersCornersFour SidesCourts Of The Temple

The city is to have urban areas set aside: on the north 250 units; on the south, 250 units, on the east, 250 units; and on the west, 250 units.

Verse ConceptsNorth, South, East And WestMeasuring Jerusalem And The Landspace

He'll invade the most prosperous areas of the province during a time of tranquility, accomplishing what neither his predecessors nor his ancestors ever could. He'll distribute war spoils, booty, and wealth to them, and he'll plot the overthrow of fortresses, though only for a time.

Verse ConceptsEvil PlansShort Time For ActionDividing The Spoil

But he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the news around, to such an extent that Jesus could no longer publicly enter a city, but stayed out in unpopulated areas; and they were coming to Him from everywhere.

Verse ConceptsUnwise ZealGod's Deed RevealedTemporary Stay In The Wildernesslonliness

So the news about him spread into all areas of the region.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of JesusSpreading The Gospelrumors

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.

Verse ConceptsPassoverPurifying OneselfNear The Time Generally

And when he had passed through those areas and exhorted them at length, he came to Greece

Verse ConceptsPreaching, Content Of

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