228 occurrences

'Called' in the Bible

After the LORD God formed from the ground every wild animal and every bird that flies, he brought each of them to the man to see what he would call it. Whatever the man called each living creature became its name.

Verse ConceptsAdam, Creation OfAirAnimal LifeBirds, Features OfStars Created By God

Therefore it was called Babylon, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth, and from there the LORD scattered them over the surface of the entire earth.

Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfScattering The PeoplesLanguages SeparatedLanguage

Abram traveled through the land to the place called Shechem, as far as the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamTravelOakswitches

From there Abram traveled on to the hill country east of Bethel and set up his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsAi, The CityCalling upon GodNomadsShrinesTentsAbraham, The Friend Of GodAbraham, Calling And LifePrayer, Described AsAltars To The LordBuilding AltarsEast And West

where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodAbraham, The Friend Of GodBuilding Altars

So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "You are "God who sees,' because I have truly seen the one who looks after me."

Verse ConceptsVeilsNames Of GodGod, All knowingGod Seeing All The EarthThose Who Saw GodVisibilityOther References To God's Name

That's why the spring was called, "The Well of the Living One who Looks after Me." It was between Kadesh and Bered.

Verse ConceptsWellsGod Seeing All Peoplebeer

They called out to Lot and asked, "Where are the men who came to visit you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!"

Verse ConceptsSelf IndulgenceVulgarityHomosexualitySexual Union IntendedWhere Are People?sex

Hurry up and flee there, because I cannot do anything until you get to that town." Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar.

Verse ConceptsHasteImpotence Of GodSmall ThingsHurrying Others On

Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such great sin against me and my kingdom? You've done things to me that ought not to have been done."

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Kings SummoningWe Have SinnedWhat Sin?

God heard the boy's voice, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven. He asked her, "What's wrong with you, Hagar? Don't be afraid, because God has heard the voice of the youth where he is.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamAngel of the LordHeaven And AngelsAngstGod HearingWhat Is The Matter?God Speaks From HeavenDo Not Fear For God Will Help

Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba, because the two of them swore an oath.

Verse ConceptsSealing A CovenantWellsPeople Naming Things

Sometime later, God tested Abraham. He called out to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am!" he answered.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamAbraham, Characteristics OfTrialsAbraham, Testing And VictoryBehold Me!Temptation

Just then, an angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven and said, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Here I am," he answered.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamDuplicating WordsBehold Me!God Speaks From HeavenJesus Role In Salvation

So they called Rebekah and asked her, "Do you want to go with this man?" "I will go," she replied.

Verse ConceptsPeople Willing

So Abimelech called Isaac and confronted him. "She is definitely your wife!" he accused him, "So why did you claim, "She's my sister?'" Isaac responded, "Because I had thought ""otherwise, I'll die on account of her.'"

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathWhy Do You Do This?Transferring Wives

Isaac re-excavated some wells that his father had first dug during his lifetime, because the Philistines had filled them with sand after Abraham's death. Isaac renamed those wells with the same names that his father had called them.

Verse ConceptsStopping WellsPeople Naming ThingsTimes Of People

In response, Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. He also pitched his tents there and his servants dug a well.

Verse ConceptsAltarsCalling upon GodNomadsTentsAltars, Built ByBuilding AltarsExcavation

Then he said, "Isn't his name rightly called Jacob?" Esau asked. "He has circumvented me this second time. First, he took away my birthright, and now, look how he also stole my blessing." Then he added, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"

Verse ConceptsJacob, Life And Character OfDoing Things TwicePeople Naming PeopleGraspingPeople BlessingStoring Other Things

Later, Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, instructing him, "Don't marry a wife from the local Canaanite women.

Verse ConceptsRacial PrejudiceWives, Duties OfIntermarriageOthers SummoningMen's OrdersPeople Who Blessed OthersInterracial Marriage

It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, "May the LORD watch between you and me, when we are estranged from each other.

Verse ConceptsGod Keeping WatchPeople Parting

So Jacob made an oath by his father's Fear, offered sacrifices there on the mountain, and called on his relatives to eat some food. So they ate the food and spent the night on the mountain.

Verse ConceptsFeasting On Special OccasionsFeastingInvitationsEating Before GodStaying Temporarily

Eventually, Jacob and everyone with him arrived at Luz (also called Beth-el) in the territory of Canaan.

Then God told him, "Your name is Jacob. No longer are you to be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel."

Verse ConceptsGod Renaming People

So God called his name Israel and also told him, "I am God Almighty. You are to be fruitful and multiply. You will become a nation in fact, an assembly of nations! Kings will come from you they'll emerge from your own loins!

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalBlessings, To AbrahamBodyGod, Power OfProcreationI Am Godfruitfulness

As the time approached for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and addressed him. "Please," he asked, "if you're happy with me, make a solemn promise that you'll treat me fairly and kindly by not burying me in Egypt.

Verse ConceptsKindnessLoyaltyA Time To DieThighsNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenImmigrants

After this, Jacob called his sons together and told them, "Assemble yourselves around me so I can tell you all what is going to happen to you in the last days.

Verse ConceptsPredicting The FutureOthers SummoningTogetherness

When the king of Egypt called for the midwives, he asked them, "Why have you done this and allowed the boys to live?"

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenKings SummoningWhy Do You Do This?

Pharaoh's daughter told her, "Go," so the young girl went and called the child's mother.

Verse ConceptsOthers Summoning

When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from the center of the bush, "Moses! Moses!" He said, "Here I am."

Verse ConceptsCalling, Of IndividualsDuplicating WordsThis Is Me

Then Pharaoh called to Moses and Aaron and said, "Plead with the LORD so that he may remove the frogs from me and my people. I'll let the people go so they can offer sacrifices to the LORD."

Verse ConceptsKings SummoningPray For UsPraying For SinnersTaking Animals

Pharaoh sent word and called for Moses and Aaron. "I've sinned this time," he told them. "The LORD is righteous, but I and my people are wicked.

Verse ConceptsConviction, Not Leading To RepentanceGuilty ConsciencesGod, Righteousness OfPunishment, By GodAcknowledge, SinKings SummoningWe Have Sinned

Pharaoh quickly called Moses and Aaron and said, "I've sinned against the LORD your God and against you.

Verse ConceptsSin, Nature OfHasty ActionKings SummoningWe Have Sinned

Pharaoh called Moses and said, "Go serve the LORD, but your flocks and your cattle are to remain. Even your little ones can go with you!"

Verse ConceptsKings SummoningWorship God!

When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water at Marah because it was bitter. (That is why it's called Marah.)

Verse ConceptsPoisonBitter WaterPeople Naming ThingsBitterness

Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain: "This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and declare to the sons of Israel,

Verse ConceptsJacob, The PatriarchGoing Up Mountains

The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. Then on the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud.

Verse ConceptsTheophanyThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSix DaysGod's VoiceDay 7Cloud of glory

"Look, I've called Uri's son Bezalel, grandson of Hur from Judah's tribe

Verse ConceptsGod Appointing OthersPeople Of JudahIdentitygrandfatherscraftsmanship

he stood in the gate of the camp and called out: "Whoever is for the LORD come over to me," and all the sons of Levi gathered around him.

Verse ConceptsChoicesGood Decision Making ExamplesRankChoosingAssembling LeadersStanding In The Gateway

Moses used to take the tent and set it up outside the camp at a distance from the camp, and he called it the Tent of Meeting. When anyone sought the LORD, he would go out to the Tent of Meeting which was outside the camp.

Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodAskingTent Of MeetingTentsWeights And Measures, DistancesOutside The CampFar From Onedistance

When Moses called to them, Aaron and the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and he spoke to them.

Verse ConceptsAddressing Someone

Moses told the Israelis, "Look, the LORD has called Uri's son Bezalel, grandson of Hur, from the tribe of Judah,

Verse ConceptsGod Appointing OthersPeople Of Judah

Eight days later, Moses called Aaron, his sons, and the elders of Israel.

Verse ConceptsAaron, As High PriestDay 8The Elders Gathered

Then Moses called on Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel, Aaron's uncle, and said, "Come here and carry your brothers away from the sanctuary, outside the camp."

Verse ConceptsCousinsCamps, Unclean ThingsCarrying Dead Bodies

The entire place was called the Eshcol Valley on account of the cluster of grapes that the men of Israel had taken from there.

Because the Israelis argued with the LORD and he was set apart among them, this place was called the Meribah Springs.

Verse ConceptsStriving With God

Balak flew into a rage and he started hitting his fists together. "I called you to curse my enemies," he yelled at Balaam. "But look here! You've blessed them three times!

Verse ConceptsAnger, HumanCommunicating Three TimesClappingBlessing And CurseCursing IsraelNamed People Angry With Others

Like the Anakim, they were thought of as Rephaim, but the Moabites called them Emites.

Verse ConceptsGiantsPeople Naming People

""(Indeed, it was considered Rephaim territory, since the Rephaim used to lived there. The Ammonites called them Zamzummites,

Verse ConceptsGiantsPeople Naming People

(The Sidonians called Hermon Sirion, but the Amorites called it Senir.)

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming Things

The remainder of Gilead and Bashan of the kingdom of Og, I've given to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (The whole region of Argob that is, all of Bashan is called the land of the Rephaim.)

Verse ConceptsFractions, One HalfReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

Manasseh's son Jair captured all the Argob region as far as the territory of the descendants of Geshur and the descendants of Maacath. Bashan was named after him; that's why it is called Havvoth-jair to this day.

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming Things

from Aroer on the edge of the Wadi Arnon as far as Mount Sirion, which is also called Hermon,

Verse ConceptsArnon

Moses called all of Israel together and told them: "Listen, Israel! Today I'm going to announce God's laws and regulations so that you will learn them and take care to obey them.

Verse ConceptsCongregationdiscipleship, nature ofLearning From Other PeopleHearingPresent, TheKeep The Commandments!

Moses called all Israel together and addressed them: "You saw everything that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his servants, and to his whole country.

Verse ConceptsLooking At God's Works

Then Moses called on Joshua and told him in the presence of everyone in Israel, "Be strong and courageous, because you'll bring this people to the land that the LORD your God had promised to give your ancestors. You will be the one who causes them to possess it.

Verse ConceptsRest, EternalFighting TogetherStrength Of PeopleGod Gave The LandBe Courageous!Be Strong!Courage And Strength

So Joshua called the twelve men whom he had chosen from the people of Israel, one man from each tribe.

Verse ConceptsTwelve Tribes

Then the LORD told Joshua, "Today I have rolled the disgrace of Egypt away from you." That's why that place is called "Gilgal" to this day.

Verse ConceptsRolling

So Nun's son Joshua called for the priests. "Pick up the Ark of the Covenant," he told them, "and have seven priests carry seven trumpets made from rams' horns in front of the ark of the LORD."

Verse ConceptsSeven PeopleSeven ThingsThe Ark Moved AroundSeven Trumpets

piling up a large mound of boulders that remains to this day. After this, the LORD turned his burning anger away, and that is why that place is called "the Valley of Achor" to this day.

Verse ConceptsCairnsGod Will No More Be AngryPlaces To This Day

When they had brought these kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel and spoke to the leaders of the men who had gone out to war along with him, "Come close and put your feet on the necks of these kings." So they came near and put their feet on their necks.

Verse ConceptsFeetNecksSubjectionCare Of FeetThose Subjected To People

Later, Joshua called together the descendants of Reuben, the descendants of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh

Joshua called together all Israel, including their leaders, officials, judges, and tribal officers. He told them, "I am old now after having lived many years.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersInfirmities

Then Joshua assembled together all of the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He called for the leaders, officials, judges, and tribal officers of Israel. They assembled in formation before God,

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersRenewal, Of People Of GodAssembling Israel

So the man traveled to the land of the Hittites and built a city that he named "Luz," and it is called by that name to this day.

Verse ConceptsBuildingGiven Names To This Day

Barak called out the army of the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali to march on Kedesh, and 10,000 men went out to war with him, along with Deborah.

Verse ConceptsFighting TogetherTens Of Thousands

So Gideon built an altar right there to the LORD and called it "The LORD is peace." (To this very day it still stands in Ophrah, which belongs to the descendants of Abiezer.)

Verse ConceptsCommemorationNames Of GodBuilding AltarsGod Of PeaceNames Involving GodNature Of GodPeople Naming ThingsPlaces To This Daygideon

Israeli soldiers were called out from the territories of Naphtali, Asher, and throughout Manasseh, and they chased after the Midianites.

Later on, the descendants of Ephraim spoke to Gideon. They argued vehemently, "What are you doing to us? You never called us! But you went out to fight Midian!"

Verse ConceptsResentment, Against PeopleDisputesWhat Do You Do?

But Jephthah replied to them, "My army and I were engaged in a serious fight with the Ammonites. I called for you, but you didn't deliver me from their control.

Verse ConceptsThose Not Saved

Aferward, he became thirsty, called out to the LORD, and told him, "So, you provided this great deliverance at the hands of your servant, but now I'm to die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"

Verse ConceptsUncircumcisionFear, Of DeathFear Of Death

So she enticed him to fall asleep on her lap, called for a man to shave off his seven locks of hair from his head, and so began to humiliate him. Then his strength abandoned him.

Verse ConceptsContentious WomanBarbersBaldnessKneelingShavingTreacheryKneesSeven Body PartsLong HairNo Strength LeftHairvulnerabilitydreadlocks

Because they all got good and drunk, they ordered, "Go get Samson, so he can entertain us." So they called for Samson from the prison, and he entertained them while they made him stand between the pillars.

Verse ConceptsAmusementsLeisure, And PastimesRecreationRevelryMaking FunSports

Meanwhile, Boaz approached the city gate and sat down there. Just then, the very same related redeemer whom Boaz had mentioned came by, so Boaz called out to him, "Come over and sit down here, my friend!" So the man came over and sat down.

Verse ConceptsGatesSitting In The Gateway

The LORD called out to Samuel, who answered, "Here I am."

Verse ConceptsNightBehold Me!God's Call

He ran to Eli and said, "Here I am! You called me." "I didn't call you," Eli said. "Go back and lie down." So he went and lay down.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals RunningLying Down To RestBehold Me!Others SummoningGod's Call

Then the LORD again called out, "Samuel!" So Samuel got up, went to Eli, and said, "Here I am! You called me."

Verse ConceptsCalling, Of IndividualsLying Down To RestBehold Me!Others Summoning

Then the LORD called out to Samuel again a third time, and he got up, went to Eli, and said, "Here I am! You called me."

Verse ConceptsSensitivityCommunicating Three TimesBehold Me!Others SummoningGod's Call

Then Eli called Samuel: "Samuel, my son." He said, "Here I am."

Verse ConceptsBehold Me!Others Summoning

(Previously in Israel, a person would say when he went to inquire of God, "Come on! Let's go to the seer!" because the person known as a prophet today was formerly called a seer.)

Verse ConceptsSeersHistory Of Nations

They got up early in the morning, and about daybreak Samuel called to Saul on the roof, "Get up and I'll send you off." Saul got up and the two of them, he and Samuel, went outside.

Verse ConceptsRising EarlyRooftopThose Who Rose EarlyGet Up!

Samuel called upon the LORD that same day, and the LORD sent thunder and rain. So all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.

Verse ConceptsReverence, And God's NatureFear Of God, Examples OfIndividuals Fearing GodFear Of Individuals

He stood still and called out to the ranks of Israel, "Why should you move into position for battle? Am I not a Philistine and you Saul's servants? Choose a man for yourselves to come down against me.

Verse ConceptsVoicesChoosing People

The servant came to the place where Jonathan had shot it, and Jonathan called out to him, "The arrow is beyond you, isn't it?"

Jonathan called out to the servant, "Hurry, be quick, don't stand around." Jonathan's servant picked up the arrow and brought it to his master.

Verse ConceptsHurrying Others On

Then David got up, went out of the cave, and called out to Saul: "Your majesty!" Saul looked behind him, and David bowed down with his face to the ground and prostrated himself.

Verse ConceptsBowingProstration

David called out to the army and to Ner's son Abner, "Abner, won't you answer me?" Abner answered: "Who are you who calls out to the king?"

Verse ConceptsWho Is This?

Saul glanced behind him, saw me, and called out to me, so I replied, "Here I am!'

Verse ConceptsBehold Me!Kings Summoning

Then David called out to one of his young men and ordered him, "Go up to him and cut him down!" So he attacked him and killed him.

Verse ConceptsKings Summoning

Then Abner called out to Joab, "Must the battle sword keep on devouring forever? Don't you realize that the end result is bitterness? How long will it take for you to order your army to stop pursuing their own relatives?"

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleEternal Judgement

Bible Theasaurus

Foretell (7 instances)
Predict (11 instances)
Promise (237 instances)
Scream (7 instances)
Squall (2 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
μετακαλέω 
metakaleo 
Usage: 4

προσκαλέομαι 
Proskaleomai 
call unto , call , call for , call to
Usage: 27

ἐπικαλέομαι 
Epikaleomai 
call on , be surname , be surnamed , call upon , appeal unto , call , appeal to , appeal
Usage: 32

προσφωνέω 
Prosphoneo 
call , call unto , call to , speak , speak to , speak unto
Usage: 5

ἀναμιμνήσκω 
Anamimnesko 
Usage: 6

φωνέω 
Phoneo 
call , crow , cry , call for
Usage: 30

זעק 
Za`aq 
Usage: 73

מקרא 
Miqra' 
Usage: 23

צעק 
Tsa`aq 
Usage: 55

קרא 
Qara' 
Usage: 736

קרא 
Q@ra' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 11

αἰτέω 
Aiteo 
Usage: 43

ἐγκαλέω 
Egkaleo 
Usage: 7

εἰσκαλέω 
Eiskaleo 
call in
Usage: 1

ἐπιλέγομαι 
Epilegomai 
be called , choose
Usage: 2

ἐπονομάζω 
Eponomazo 
Usage: 1

ἐρέω 
Ereo 
say , speak , tell , speak of , call
Usage: 41

καλέω 
Kaleo 
call , bid , be so named , named ,
Usage: 106

κλῆσις 
Klesis 
Usage: 11

κλητός 
Kletos 
Usage: 9

κοινόω 
Koinoo 
Usage: 5

κρίνω 
Krino 
judge , determine , condemn , go to law , call in question , esteem ,
Usage: 84

λέγω 
Lego 
say , speak , call , tell ,
Usage: 1045

μακαρίζω 
Makarizo 
Usage: 2

μεταπέμπω 
metapempo 
Usage: 8

ὄνομα 
Onoma 
name , named , called , surname , named , not tr
Usage: 162

ὀνομάζω 
Onomazo 
Usage: 10

προσαγορεύω 
Prosagoreuo 
Usage: 1

συγκαλέω 
Sugkaleo 
Usage: 6

συναθροίζω 
sunathroizo 
Usage: 2

χρηματίζω 
Chrematizo 
be warned of God , call , be admonished of God , reveal , speak , be warned from God
Usage: 9

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