'Becoming' in the Bible

A river flows from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divides, becoming four branches.

The LORD saw that human evil was growing more and more throughout the earth, with every inclination of people's thoughts becoming only evil on a continuous basis.

and the waters have been going and becoming lacking till the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first of the month, appeared the heads of the mountains.

And after becoming the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

He became very wealthy and lived a life of wealth, becoming more and more wealthy.

This is the law for someone with a discharge: a man who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean by it;

And {you must not have sex} with your fellow citizen's wife, becoming unclean with her.

And you shall not {have sexual relations} with any animal, becoming unclean with it; and a woman shall not stand {before} an animal to copulate with it--that [is] a perversion.

He shall not eat an animal which dies or is torn by beasts, becoming unclean by it; I am the Lord.

By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;

and the hand of the sons of Israel goeth, going on and becoming hard on Jabin king of Canaan, till that they have cut off Jabin king of Canaan.

Naomi took care of the child, taking him to her breast and becoming his nurse.

And the young Samuel, becoming older, had the approval of the Lord and of men.

And at that time, when Eli was resting in his place, (now his eyes were becoming clouded so that he was not able to see,)

And it cometh to pass, while Saul spake unto the priest, that the noise which is in the camp of the Philistines goeth on, going on and becoming great, and Saul saith unto the priest, 'Remove thy hand.'

Saul's officials delivered this message to David, and he asked, "Is becoming the king's son-in-law an unimportant thing to you? I'm a poor and unimportant man."

The war between the house of Saul and the house of David was long and drawn out, with David growing stronger and the house of Saul becoming weaker.

As the war continued between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was becoming more influential in the house of Saul.

and David goeth, going on and becoming great, and Jehovah, God of Hosts, is with him.

Jeroboam said to his wife, “Go disguise yourself, so they won’t know that you’re Jeroboam’s wife, and go to Shiloh. Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who told about me becoming king over this people.

And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal.

And David goeth, going on and becoming great, and Jehovah of Hosts is with him.

And Jehoshaphat is going on and becoming very great, and he buildeth in Judah palaces and cities of store,

In it was written, "It has been reported among the nations, and Gashmu also is saying it, that you and the Jews are considering rebellion. Therefore, truly you are building the wall and you are becoming their king, according to these words.

and in every province and province, and in every city and city, the place where the word of the king, even his law, is coming, gladness and joy are to the Jews, a banquet, and a good day; and many of the peoples of the land are becoming Jews, for a fear of the Jews hath fallen upon them.

for great is Mordecai in the house of the king, and his fame is going into all the provinces, for the man Mordecai is going on and becoming great.

"I myself saw a fool becoming established, but I suddenly cursed where he lived.

Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?

My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

Why do the wicked continue to live,growing old and becoming powerful?

My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.

Sing for joy in the Lord, O you righteous ones;Praise is becoming to the upright.

Your precepts are fully confirmed and completely reliable;Holiness adorns Your house,O Lord, forever.

Because our sons are as plants, Becoming great in their youth, Our daughters as hewn stones, Polished -- the likeness of a palace,

Praise the Lord!For it is good to sing praises to our God;For it is pleasant and praise is becoming.

My son, be attentive to my wisdom [godly wisdom learned by costly experience],Incline your ear to my understanding;

Those who give freely gain even more; others hold back what they owe, becoming even poorer.

Excessive speech is not becoming for a fool; how much less are lies for a ruler!

A man who lacks sense cosigns a loan, becoming a guarantor for his neighbor.

Do not be with those who {give a pledge} {by becoming} surety.

So I thought to myself, "The fate of the fool will happen even to me! Then what did I gain by becoming so excessively wise?" So I lamented to myself, "The benefits of wisdom are ultimately meaningless!"

For I heard a voice like an ill woman, anxiety like [a woman who] bears her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion. She is gasping for breath, she is spreading out her hands: "Woe is me, for I am becoming tired before killers."

Who doth not fear Thee, king of the nations? For to Thee it is becoming, For among all the wise of the nations, And in all their kingdom there is none like Thee.

You have forsaken me," {declares} Yahweh. "You go backward, so I have stretched my hand against you, and I have destroyed you. I am tired of becoming remorseful.

I made Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and its officials drink it. I did it so Judah would become a ruin. I did it so Judah, its kings, and its officials would become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, an example used in curses. Such is already becoming the case!

provoking me to anger with the works of your hands, to make smoke offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you [have] come to dwell as aliens, so as to cut off yourselves, and so that you are becoming as a curse, and as a disgrace among all the nations of the earth?

This is what the Lord says:Look, waters are rising from the northand becoming an overflowing wadi.They will overflow the land and everything in it,the cities and their inhabitants.The people will cry out,and every inhabitant of the land will wail.

The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting,They stay in the strongholds;Their strength is exhausted,They are becoming like women;Their dwelling places are set on fire,The bars of her gates are broken.

At their becoming hot I will set their banquets, and I will make them drunk, so that they will fall into a swoon, and they will sleep {an everlasting sleep}, and they will not wake up," {declares} Yahweh.

To their mothers they say, 'Where are corn and wine?' In their becoming feeble as a pierced one In the broad places of the city, In their soul pouring itself out into the bosom of their mothers.

Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations and the countries around her. Indeed, they have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.

"'But you trusted in your beauty and capitalized on your fame by becoming a prostitute. You offered your sexual favors to every man who passed by so that your beauty became his.

so that you [Judah] will bear your humiliation and disgrace, and be [thoroughly] ashamed for all [the wickedness] that you have done to console and comfort them.

It was transplanted into good soil near abundant water, and it produced branches and bore fruit, becoming a magnificent vine."'

And you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "A city pouring out blood in the midst of her; {its time has come}, and it made idols for itself, becoming unclean.

Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of your all becoming dross, Therefore, lo, I am gathering you unto the midst of Jerusalem,

Because they kept serving them in the presence of their idols, becoming a sin-filled stumbling block to the house of Israel,' declares the Lord GOD.

""One of her family line will replace him. He'll come against the army and enter the fortress of the northern king, conquering them and becoming victorious.

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird;No birth, no pregnancy, and [because of their impurity] no conception.

Have no fear, you beasts of the field, for the grass-lands of the waste are becoming green, for the trees are producing fruit, the fig-tree and the vine give out their strength.

So they said to him, “What should we do to you that the sea may become calm for us?”—for the sea was becoming increasingly stormy.

However, the men rowed desperately to return to land but they could not, for the sea was becoming even stormier against them.

But Jesus answering said to him, 'Suffer now, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfil all righteousness,' then he doth suffer him.

And He replied, “It is not good (appropriate, fair) to take the children’s bread and throw it to the pet dogs.”

And becoming angry, he stretched out his hand [and] touched [him], and said to him, "I am willing; be made clean."

Immediately Jesus, being fully aware [of their hostility] and knowing in His spirit that they were thinking this, said to them, “Why are you debating and arguing about these things in your hearts?

A violent windstorm came up, and the waves began breaking into the boat, so that the boat was rapidly becoming swamped.

He was saying to her, “First let the children [of Israel] be fed, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the pet dogs (non-Jews).”

And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he was revealed to Israel.

And the child was growing and becoming strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon him.

And he left everything behind and got up and began to follow Jesus [as His disciple].

Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?

and being amazed, and becoming affrighted, they were thinking themselves to see a spirit.

To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:

Then Jesus was led from Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters early in the morning. The Jews did not go into the headquarters, to avoid becoming unclean and unable to eat the Passover meal.

The word of God kept on spreading; and the number of the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith.

Now it happened that in those days [after] becoming sick, she died. And [after] washing [her], they placed her in an upstairs room.

and he having looked earnestly on him, and becoming afraid, said, 'What is it, Lord?' And he said to him, 'Thy prayers and thy kind acts came up for a memorial before God,

And she was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed and turning around, said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" And it came out {immediately}.

But the Jews, becoming jealous and taking along some wicked men from the market place, formed a mob and set the city in an uproar; and attacking the house of Jason, they were seeking to bring them out to the people.

But when some were becoming hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the people, he withdrew from them and took away the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.

The quarrel was becoming violent, and the tribune was afraid that they would tear Paul to pieces. So he ordered the soldiers to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

But they had the idea that they would see him becoming ill, or suddenly falling down dead; but after waiting a long time, and seeing that no damage came to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god.

Who, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: 'So shall thy seed be;'

Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;

So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age -- of those becoming useless,

But the natural [unbelieving] man does not accept the things [the teachings and revelations] of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness [absurd and illogical] to him; and he is incapable of understanding them, because they are spiritually discerned and appreciated, [and he is unqualified to judge spiritual matters].

You were bought for a price. Stop becoming slaves of people.

Thus much I say in your own interest; not to lay a trap for you, but to help towards what is becoming, and enable you to wait on the Lord without distraction.

only let everything be done in a becoming and orderly manner.

As all of us reflect the glory of the Lord with unveiled faces, we are becoming more like him with ever-increasing glory by the Lord's Spirit.

Stop becoming unevenly yoked with unbelievers. What partnership can righteousness have with lawlessness? What fellowship can light have with darkness?

Since we have these promises, dear friends, let's cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit by becoming mature in our holy fear of God.

For you are recognizing [more clearly] the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [His astonishing kindness, His generosity, His gracious favor], that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich (abundantly blessed).

Who is weak without me being weak, too? Who is caused to stumble without me becoming indignant?

To keep me from becoming conceited because of the exceptional nature of these revelations, a thorn was given to me and placed in my body. It was Satan's messenger to keep on tormenting me so that I would not become conceited.

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written: Everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed.

who, becoming callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness, for the pursuit of all uncleanness in greediness.