22 occurrences

'Bit' in the Bible

And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodServanthood, In Life Of BelieversPeople Refreshed

It is to be taken in one house; not a bit of the flesh is to be taken out of the house, and no bone of it may be broken.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambBonesGospel, Confirmation OfPassoverBodies Of AnimalsNo Bones BrokenOutside The HouseMessianic Prophecies

And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord:

Verse ConceptsOilCakesWafersRegulations For Cereal Offerings

And he made two winged ones, hammered out of one bit of gold, for the two ends of the cover;

Verse ConceptsTwo AngelsGold Items For The Tabernacl

And every bit of clothing, and anything made of leather or goats' hair or wood, you are to make clean.

Verse ConceptsDressAnimal SkinsWashing ClothesHairclothClean Clothes

And at meal-time Boaz said to her, Come here, and take some of the bread, and put your bit into the wine. And she took her seat among the grain-cutters: and he gave her dry grain, and she took it, and there was more than enough for her meal.

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodGrainMealsPoverty, Attitudes TowardsSittingVinegarWineRemaining Food

Then he said to the near relation, Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is offering for a price that bit of land which was our brother Elimelech's:

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingReal EstateCommerce

Then it will be that the rest of your family, anyone who has not been cut off, will go down on his knees to him for a bit of silver or a bit of bread, and say, Be pleased to put me into one of the priest's places so that I may have a little food.

Verse ConceptsBowing

After him was Shammah, the son of Ela the Hararite. And the Philistines came together in Lehi, where there was a bit of land full of seed; and the people went in flight from the Philistines.

Verse ConceptsIsrael Fleeing

But he kept his place in the middle of the bit of land, and kept back their attack and overcame the Philistines: and the Lord gave a great salvation.

Verse ConceptsSwords

And when she was going to get it, he said to her, And get me with it a small bit of bread.

Verse ConceptsRequesting Food

He was with David at Pas-dammim, where the Philistines had come together for the fight, near a bit of land full of barley; and the people went in flight before the Philistines.

Verse ConceptsGrainIsrael Fleeing

And he took up his position in the middle of the bit of land, and kept back their attack, and overcame the Philistines; and the Lord gave a great salvation.

Verse ConceptsRescue

And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.

Verse ConceptsAshesAshes Of Humiliation

Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

Verse ConceptsInsectsWasteMothsPeople RottingPossessions DecayingFood Decayingworms

See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.

Verse ConceptsGodly Fear, DescriptionClayClay, Figurative UseLike People By NatureOther People Of God

And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.

Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfGoldOrnamentsRingsSistersSuffering, Encouragements InVisitingComfort, Of FriendsPresentsJewelleryLarge Denominations

A whip for the horse, a mouth-bit for the ass, and a rod for the back of the foolish.

Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfBridlesBackBeatingsWhipsWhippingBinding As Animals

It is not good to have respect for a man's position: for a man will do wrong for a bit of bread.

Verse ConceptsFavouritismInjustice, Examples OfRespect, For Human BeingsEffect Of BribesRespect

And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.

Verse ConceptsPotterBreaking ContainersWeed

And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, Idolatry IsIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToDullnessBowing To False GodsBaking BreadFirewoodHalf Of ThingsThose Who Were Ignorant

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