11 occurrences in 10 translations

'Bereave' in the Bible

I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that your roads lie deserted.

Verse ConceptsBeastsNumbers ReducingAnimals Killing

Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers -- fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.

Verse ConceptsGreyFear Of EnemiesGod's Sword

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Lack OfAffluenceDiscontentPhysical LabourBeing UnsatisfiedUseless EndeavourToiling In VainFamily And Friends

And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

Verse ConceptsToolsWinnowingBereavementGod Will Kill His People

So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

Verse ConceptsWar As God's JudgmentFamine Coming From GodBereavementKilling Will Happen

If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, and they bereave it, and it become a desolation, so that no one passeth through because of the beasts;

Verse ConceptsLand Becoming Empty

Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.

Verse ConceptsInhabitationBereavementPeople Possessing Other Things

"'This is what the sovereign Lord says: Because they are saying to you, "You are a devourer of men, and bereave your nation of children,"

Verse ConceptsBereavementPeople Destroying Foreign Nations

Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord GOD.

Verse ConceptsBereavementNot Destroyed

I will no longer subject you to the nations' insults; no longer will you bear the shame of the peoples, and no longer will you bereave your nation, declares the sovereign Lord.'"

Verse ConceptsDo Not HinderInsulting Other PeopleFunhomecoming

Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

Verse ConceptsLeavingBereavementWoe To Israel And JerusalemRaising Children

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Bereave (11 instances)

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