41 occurrences in 13 translations

'Certainly' in the Bible

Also, I will certainly demand an accounting regarding bloodshed, from every animal and from every human being. I'll demand an accounting from every human being for the life of another human being.

Verse ConceptsGuardiansCapital PunishmentResponsibility For Blood ShedDeath Penalty For KillingRelation Of Animals To ManAnimals Having A SoulThe RainbowPetsaccounting

he is certainly circumcised who is born in thine house, or bought with thy money; and My covenant hath become in your flesh a covenant age-during;

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyProselytesThe Eternal CovenantBorn In One's HouseCircumcisionGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsGroups Of Slaves

and God saith, 'Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamBearingThe Eternal CovenantGod Naming PeopleGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsThe Promise Of A Babysarah

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will certainly bless him; I will make him fruitful and will multiply him greatly. He will father 12 tribal leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Family And DescendantsThe Number TwelveAbraham, Testing And VictoryAnswered PrayerProsperity PromisedGod Multipling PeopleTwelve BeingsBlessed By GodGod Paid Attention To MeSons Being A Blessingfruitfulness

And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

Verse ConceptsListeningSanctity Of LifeConceptionBirths ForetoldThe Promise Of A Babysarah

And they say, 'Come nigh hither;' they say also, 'This one hath come in to sojourn, and he certainly judgeth! now, we do evil to thee more than to them;' and they press against the man, against Lot greatly, and come nigh to break the door.

Verse ConceptsSeductionThreateningsSojourningPressingBroken ThingsSuffering From ForeignersWorse

Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you will certainly die, you and all who are yours.”

Verse ConceptsMediatorAbraham, The Friend Of GodKept Alive By MenDeath As PunishmentReinstating PeoplePraying For SinnersNamed Prophets Of The LordHusband And WifeGiving Back

I'll cause you to have as many descendants as the stars of the heavens, and I'll certainly give all these lands to your descendants. Later on, through your descendants all the nations of the earth will bless one another.

Verse ConceptsMultiplyingConsistencyevangelists, identity ofBlessings, To AbrahamMission, Of IsraelBlessing Through God's People

Then Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, she is certainly thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? and Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die on account of her.

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathWhy Do You Do This?Transferring Wives

So Abimelech warned all the people with these words: “Whoever harms this man or his wife will certainly die.”

Verse ConceptsTouching To HarmDeath Penalty For KillingThe King's Orders

And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

Verse ConceptsGod With Specific People

And this stone that I have set up [as] a pillar shall be the house of God, and [of] all that you give to me I will certainly give a tenth to you."

Verse ConceptsHouse Of GodTithesFractions, One TenthObelisksStones As MonumentsBethel The House Of GodTithing ProduceTithes And OfferingGiving Back

Laban responded, "You certainly are my flesh and blood!" So Jacob stayed with him for about a month.

Verse ConceptsBonesBodyOne MonthSame Bone And Fleshspace

When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must sleep with me [tonight], for I have in fact hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.

Verse ConceptsHiringMarital SexMeeting PeopleMarital Sex Between

Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? For he has sold us and has certainly spent our money.

Verse ConceptsReckoningReckoned As Foreigners

Now, you can go if you must go, because you certainly are longing to go to your father's house. But why did you steal my gods?"

Verse ConceptsHomeLove, And The WorldRight DesiresRobbing Gods

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work, and He issued His verdict last night.”

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersFear Of God, Examples OfGod Seeing Their AfflictionEmpty HandedGod For UsGod Sending His SonI Am SufferingThose Who ToiledGod Requite Them!

Now, you promised me that "I'm certainly going to cause things to go well with you, and I'm going to make your offspring as numerous as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.'"

Verse ConceptsUncountableImpossible For PeopleGod Doing GoodSand And Gravel

Then Jacob told Simeon and Levi, "You have certainly stirred up trouble for me! You've made me despised by the Canaanites and the Perizzites who live in this territory. Because I have only a few men with me, they're going to gather themselves together and attack me until I am totally destroyed, along with my entire household!"

Verse ConceptsTrouble, Causes OfNosesSmellsFew PeopleTroubling IndividualsNations Attacking IsraelFamily Problems

And his brethren say to him, 'Dost thou certainly reign over us? dost thou certainly rule over us?' and they add still more to hate him, for his dreams, and for his words.

Verse ConceptsHating Individualsdominion

And he recounteth unto his father, and unto his brethren; and his father pusheth against him, and saith to him, 'What is this dream which thou hast dreamt? do we certainly come -- I, and thy mother, and thy brethren -- to bow ourselves to thee, to the earth?'

Verse ConceptsSalutationsBowing Before JosephWhat Is This?Immigrants

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, "Certainly God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's house."

Verse ConceptsFirstborn SonsForgetting ThingsGod Healing SorrowPeople With Apt NamesFamily ProblemsFamily First

He named the second child Ephraim, saying, "Certainly God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering."

Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalThe Source Of FruitGod Healing SorrowPeople With Apt Namesfruitfulness

Send one of you [back home], and let him bring your brother [here], while [the rest of] you remain confined, so that your words may be tested, [to see] whether there is any truth in you [and your story]; or else, by the life of Pharaoh, certainly you are spies.”

Verse ConceptsPrisonersSpyingPeople Sending People

They said one to another, "We are certainly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come upon us."

Verse ConceptsGuilty ConsciencesGuilt, Human Aspects OfAfflicted Saints, Examples OfFound GuiltyPeople Without MercyWhy It HappenedHuman Awareness Of Guilt

And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular QuestionsAnswering PeopleNot Knowing The FutureLiving On

For had we not lingered, we should now certainly have returned already twice.

Verse ConceptsDoing Things TwicePeople Who Delayed

Is this not that from which my master drinks? Now he himself certainly practices divination with it. You have done evil [in] what you have done.'"

And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?

and the one went out from me, and I said, He must certainly have been torn in pieces; and I have not seen him again hitherto.

Verse ConceptsPeople Torn To PiecesNot Seeing People

You and my brother Benjamin can certainly see with your own eyes that I really am the one who speaks to you.

Verse ConceptsThis Is MeSeeing People

I'm going down with you to Egypt, and I'm certainly going to bring you back again. And Joseph himself will be with you when you die."

Verse ConceptsPreparation For BurialLaying On Hands To HealGod Will Be With YouGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egyptefficiency

But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest ChildPeople With General KnowledgeRules About Young People

And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

Verse ConceptsGrudgesResentment, Against PeopleResponseRepaying Evil For EvilNamed People Angry With Others

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will certainly come to your aid and bring you up from this land to the land He promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Verse ConceptsAssurance, basis ofProperty, LandThe Promised LandGod VisitingNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenDeath Approaching

So Joseph made all of Israel's other children make this promise: "Because God is certainly going to take care of you, you are to carry my bones up from here."

Verse ConceptsBonesFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsLove, And The WorldExhumationsGod VisitingPeople Bound By Oaths

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