72 occurrences in 13 translations

'Away' in the Bible

Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.

Verse Conceptsdrought, physicaldewLack Of RainAnointing Things

From the blood of the slain, from the fat of warriors, the bow of Jonathan was not turned away. The sword of Saul never returned empty.

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

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

But Asahel refused to turn away, so Abner hit him in the stomach with the end of his spear. The spear went through his body, and he fell and died right there. When all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, they stopped,

Verse ConceptsBackSpearsStomachsPiercingsMotionlessnessComing To RestStriking To Death

Then Abner called to Joab and said, "Will [the] sword devour forever? Do you not know that [there] will be bitterness in the end? {How long} will you not tell the people to turn {away from pursuing} their brothers?"

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleEternal Judgement

Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then the people would have gone away in the morning, each from following his brother.”

I will take away the kingdom from the dynasty of Saul by making the throne of David firm over Israel and Judah from Dan to Beer-sheba!"

Verse ConceptsSaul And David

So Ish-bosheth sent someone to take her away from her husband, Paltiel son of Laish.

Verse ConceptsTransferring Wives

And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make a league with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thine heart desireth. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.

Verse ConceptsCovenant RelationshipsMaking Kings

And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.

Verse ConceptsSpoils Of War

When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.

Verse ConceptsSoldiers

Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?

Now Saul's son Jonathan had a son who was crippled in both feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan arrived from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but in her haste to get away, he fell and was injured. Mephibosheth was his name.

Verse ConceptsCripplesAccidentsFeetdisabilitiesLamenessNursesSuffering, Causes OfPeople TumblingHurt And Betrayalsaul

For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.

Verse ConceptsBedroomsBeheadingWalking All NightBeds

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

Verse ConceptsBeds

And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesZion, As A PlaceEntering Cities

And they left their images there, and David and his men took them away.

Verse ConceptsAbandoning ThingsAbandoning Idols

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 he gave to every man and woman among all the people, among all the masses of Israel, a cake of bread and a measure of wine and a cake of dry grapes. Then all the people went away, every man to his house.

Verse ConceptsGiftsFruitFoodMale And Female

But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.

Verse ConceptsWarnings Against ApostasyApostasy, Ot ExamplesDeposingGod Showed His Lovingkindnesssaul

Sometime later, David defeated and subdued the Philistines, taking Metheg-ammah away from the Philistines.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahThose Subjected To People

Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

Verse ConceptsHairsShavingFractions, One HalfCutting HairPeople Stripping PeopleTrimming Facial HairHalf Of Things

And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house and let your feet be washed. And Uriah went away from the king's house, and an offering from the king was sent after him.

Verse ConceptsGiftsFeet WashingClean FeetSending people home

And David saith unto Uriah, 'Abide in this place also to-day, and to-morrow I send thee away;' and Uriah abideth in Jerusalem, on that day, and on the morrow,

So then, a sword will not turn away from your house forever, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife!'

Verse ConceptsRetributionKilling Will HappenTransferring Wives

"This is what the LORD says: ""Listen very carefully! ""I'm raising up evil against you right out of your own household. ""I'm going to take your wives away from you right before your eyes. ""Then I'll give them to your neighbor. ""And then he's going to have sex with your wives in broad daylight!

Verse ConceptsHatred Between RelativesDuring The DayGod Will Bring HarmTransferring WivesRelationship Troublesgrandfathers

He took the crown from the head of their king, and it was placed on David’s head. The crown weighed 75 pounds of gold, and it had a precious stone in it. In addition, David took away a large quantity of plunder from the city.

Verse ConceptsCrowns, Worn ByGoldJewelsJewelleryWeights Of GoldTalentsweight

And she took the cooking-pot, and put the cakes before him, but he would not take them. And Amnon said, Let everyone go away from me. So they all went out.

Verse ConceptsMourningPlatesGroups Sent Away

Then Amnon hated her with a very great hatred; for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, “Get up, go away!”

Verse ConceptsHatredSuffering, Causes OfDefraudingMen And Women Who LovedHating Individualsheartbroken

And she said unto him, There is no cause: this evil in sending me away is greater than the other that thou didst unto me. But he would not hearken unto her.

But he was unwilling to listen to her. So he called out to a young man who was serving him, and told him: "Send this woman away from me and lock the door after her."

Verse ConceptsShutting DoorsLocks And Bars

Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long-sleeved garment she was wearing. She put her hand on her head and went away crying out.

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesClothing, Tearing OfAshesWeepingFine ClothesThose Who Tore ClothesAshes Of Humiliation

So Absalom's servants did to Amnon exactly what Absalom had instructed. Then all the king's sons got up; each one rode away on his mule and fled.

Verse ConceptsMulesBackAnimals, Types OfRiding Mules

Meanwhile, Absalom had run away. While the young man standing watch was looking around, all of a sudden he observed many people coming down the road behind and to the west of the mountain! So the watchman left his post and reported, "I have seen men coming from the direction of Horonaim."

Verse ConceptsFugitivesWatchmanWest

And the woman said, Why have you had such a thought about the people of God? (for in saying these very words the king has put himself in the wrong because he has not taken back the one whom he sent far away.)

Verse ConceptsReinstating PeopleFound Guilty

We will certainly die and be like water poured out on the ground, which can’t be recovered. But God would not take away a life; He would devise plans so that the one banished from Him does not remain banished.

Verse ConceptsImperfection, Influence OfLast ThingsUniversality Of DeathMediatorMortalityHow Death Is InevitableReinstating Peopleextraterrestrials

In this manner Absalom dealt with all Israel who came to the king for judgment; so Absalom stole away the hearts of the men of Israel.

The king and all the people set out on foot, pausing at a spot some distance away.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesCessationStopping Still

So Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and did not go away from there.

Verse ConceptsThe Ark In Jerusalem

David said to him, “If you go away with me, you’ll be a burden to me,

Verse ConceptsHeavy Burdens

And thus said Shimei as he cursed: Away, away, thou man of blood and man of Belial!

If that happens even the bravest soldier -- one who is lion-hearted -- will virtually melt away. For all Israel knows that your father is a warrior and that those who are with him are brave.

Verse ConceptsFear Of Enemies

Then we will come on him in some place, wherever he may be, falling on him as the dew comes on the earth: and of him and all the men who are with him not one will get away with his life.

Verse ConceptsdewHoly Spirit, Types OfNo SurvivorsKilling Will Happen

[Even] if he withdraws to a city, all Israel will bring up ropes to that city, and they will drag him away to the valley until there [is] not even a pebble to be found."

Verse ConceptsRopesCities Under AttackPulling ThingsBuilding Stones Rejected

Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.

Verse ConceptsCourtyardHiding From PeopleTelling Of Happenings

When Absalom's servants approached the woman of the house, they asked her, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" "They've already crossed the brook," the woman answered. So Absalom's servants went away in search of Jonathan and Ahimaaz, but they couldn't find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsFindingRiver CrossingsNot FindingGroups going homeWhere Are People?Those Looking For People

Then after the servants had gone away, they came up out of the water-hole and went to give King David the news; and they said, Get up and go quickly over the water, for such and such are Ahithophel's designs against you.

Verse ConceptsFordsTelling Of Happenings

But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.

Verse ConceptsValuesTens Of ThousandsPeople HelpingHalf Of GroupsGreat IndividualsWorth

And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.

Verse ConceptsMulesBackCovering HeadsRiding MulesHairdreadlocks

Meanwhile, Joab's army grabbed Absalom's body, tossed it into a large pit in the forest, and filled it up with a huge pile of rocks. Then the Israelis ran away back to their homes.

Verse ConceptsPitsRetributionIsrael FleeingCairnsHoles In The Ground

And the king saith, 'Peace to the youth -- to Absalom?' And Ahimaaz saith, 'I saw the great multitude, at the sending away of the servant of the king, even thy servant by Joab, and I have not known what it is.'

Verse ConceptsConfusionCareServanthood, In Society

And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

Verse ConceptsHiding From People

Meanwhile, the Israelis had run away back to their own homes. Throughout the tribes of Israel, everyone was quarreling with one another: "The king delivered us from the domination of our enemies"." "He's the one who rescued us from Philistine control"." "Now he's fleeing the country because of Absalom"!"

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Saving Others

And Mephibosheth son of Saul hath come down to meet the king -- and he prepared not his feet, nor did he prepare his upper lip, yea, his garments he washed not, even from the day of the going away of the king, till the day that he came in peace --

Verse ConceptsGrandchildrenInjury To FeetFacial HairUnclean Things

And Barzillai the Gileadite hath gone down from Rogelim, and passeth over the Jordan with the king, to send him away over the Jordan;

And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king, and his household, and all David's men with him, over Jordan?

So all the men of Israel, turning away from David, went after Sheba, the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah were true to their king, going with him from Jordan as far as Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsPeople Following People

Then David came to his house (palace) at Jerusalem, and the king took the ten women, his concubines whom he had left to take care of the house, and placed them under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were confined, and lived as widows until the day of their death.

Verse ConceptsHousesWidowsAbsence Of SexTen PeopleIndividuals going homeActual Widows

Then David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba son of Bicri will cause greater disaster for us than Absalom did! Take your lord's servants and pursue him. Otherwise he will secure fortified cities for himself and get away from us."

Verse ConceptsFortressesFortified CitiesPeople Possibly Doing Evil

Amasa was squirming in his own blood in the middle of the path, and this man had noticed that all the soldiers stopped. Having noticed that everyone who came across Amasa stopped, the man pulled him away from the path and into the field and threw a garment over him.

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

The matter is not so; for a man of the hill-country of Ephraim -- Sheba son of Bichri his name -- hath lifted up his hand against the king, against David; give ye up him by himself, and I go away from the city.' And the woman saith unto Joab, 'Lo, his head is cast unto thee over the wall.'

Verse ConceptsHanding Over People

Then the woman in her wisdom had talk with all the town. And they had Sheba's head cut off and sent out to Joab. And he had the horn sounded, and sent them all away from the town, every man to his tent. And Joab went back to Jerusalem to the king.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetBeheadingTrumpets To Stop FightingGroups going home

And David went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had taken them away secretly from the public place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had put them, hanging up the bodies there on the day when they put Saul to death in Gilboa:

Verse ConceptsSecrecyBonesPeople Hung To Death

For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

Verse ConceptsOrthodoxy, In Ot

For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

Verse ConceptsI Keep The Commandments

Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.

Verse ConceptsForeignersGroups Tremblingcrusades

He delivers me from my enemies; you snatch me away from those who attack me; you rescue me from violent men.

Verse ConceptsRescue From ViolenceGod Lifting PeopleGod Saving From EnemiesProtection From Enemies

But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:

Verse ConceptsThornsEvil AssociationsThe Wicked Will Perish

And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:

Verse ConceptsThree Men

And he hath smitten the Egyptian man, a man of appearance, and in the hand of the Egyptian is a spear, and he goeth down unto him with a rod, and taketh violently away the spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, and slayeth him with his own spear.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationSpears

And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfFolly, Examples OfGuilty ConsciencesConfession, Examples OfBeggarsGuilt, Human Aspects OfKnowledge, Of SinRegretRepentance, Examples OfFoolish PeopleWe Have Sinned

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