35 occurrences

'Certain' in the Bible

A certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.

Verse ConceptsCripplesGatesLamenessLonelinessWeakness, PhysicalBeauty, In ArtefactsHelplessnessChronic AilmentsSitting In The GatewayNamed GatesFrom The WombOnce A DayPeople Carrying Live PeopleInner BeautyThe Beauty Of Nature

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,

Verse ConceptsProperty

and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

Verse ConceptsBad ConsciencesCorrupted ConsciencesCheatingKnowing FactsPutting Things DownThe Apostles In ActionPeople Giving Other Thingscouples

But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,

Verse ConceptsClaimsPride, Examples OfSelf ConfidenceSuperiorityBoastersGreat IndividualsSorcerymagic

Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" He said, "Behold, it's me, Lord."

Verse ConceptsecstasyGod, Revelation OfThose Who Saw VisionsThe Spirit SpeakingThis Is Medamascus

There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years, because he was paralyzed.

Verse ConceptsParalyticsEight Or Nine YearsBeds

Now there was a certain man in Caesarea, Cornelius by name, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,

Verse ConceptsMilitaryArmies, RomanVolunteering

He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,

Verse ConceptsFour CornersThe Act Of OpeningOpening HeavenFour SidesPutting Animals DownHeavenly Visionporksailing

"I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision: a certain container descending, like it was a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners. It came as far as me.

Verse ConceptsecstasyFour CornersLowering PeopleThose Who Saw VisionsFour SidesI PrayPutting Animals Down

When they had gone through the island to Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar Jesus,

Verse ConceptsExamples Of FaithDivination, Practiced ByTravelFalse Teachers, Examples OfFalse Apostles, Prophets And TeachersSorcery

At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.

Verse ConceptsCripplesdisabilitiesLamenessThe Healed WalkingFrom The Womb

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

Verse ConceptsBelieversGrandmothers

A certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one who worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened to listen to the things which were spoken by Paul.

Verse ConceptsHearingListeningColors, PurpleReceptivenessResponseProselytesThe Act Of OpeningOpening To OthersPurple ClothMissionariesevangelising

It happened, as we were going to prayer, that a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling.

Verse ConceptsMagical Arts, Practice Ofdemons, Kinds ofMastersMoney, Uses OfPredictionsDivinationFortunetellingNecromancyWhere To PraySorceryThe Futuremagicpsychics

When they didn't find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, "These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

Verse ConceptsTurning Upside DownPulling PeopleNot FindingTroubling Groups Of PeopleCauses of failure in

For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."

Verse ConceptsMeaning

But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

Verse ConceptsConverts To ChristianityThose Who Believed In Christ

He found a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by race, who had recently come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome. He came to them,

Verse Conceptsevangelism, motivation forempiresCaesarCommands, in NTPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRefugeesGood Wives ExamplesAquilaRoman EmperorsGroups Sent Away

He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

Verse ConceptsProselytes

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

Verse ConceptsAlexandria The CityEloquenceMissionaries, Call OfApollosMissionary ExamplesUse Of The ScripturesRace

It happened that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples.

Verse ConceptsFindingRoadsflexibility

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen,

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofCraftsmenSculptureShrinesSilverSkill

Certain also of the Asiarchs, being his friends, sent to him and begged him not to venture into the theater.

Verse Conceptsrisk

A certain young man named Eutychus sat in the window, weighed down with deep sleep. As Paul spoke still longer, being weighed down by his sleep, he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

Verse ConceptsDeath, Means OfSleep, PhysicalPeople Falling From A HeightThree Parts Of ConstructionsBad LuckteenagerFalling Backwards

As we stayed there some days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

Verse ConceptsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.

Verse ConceptsAttorneyGovernorsHigh Priest, In NtFour Or Five DaysPeople Accusing People

amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.

Verse ConceptsTumultDisciples In The Temple

As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying, "There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;

but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

Verse ConceptsChrist's LifeThe Fact Of Christ's Deathconnection

Of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him forth before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination, I may have something to write.

Verse ConceptsInvestigatingNot Writing

When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

Verse ConceptsCenturionRoman Emperorssailing

With difficulty sailing along it we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near the city of Lasea.

Verse ConceptsHarborssailinghugs

But we must run aground on a certain island."

When it was day, they didn't recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay with a beach, and they decided to try to drive the ship onto it.

Verse ConceptsSandSeashoresNot Knowing Where

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