28 occurrences in 7 translations

'Collapsed' in the Bible

"Promise me," Israel insisted. So Joseph promised. Then Israel collapsed on his bed.

Verse ConceptsPromises, HumanStaffBeds

So the people shouted, and the trumpets sounded. When they heard the blast of the trumpet, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. The people advanced into the city, each man straight ahead, and they captured the city.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsInvasionsShouting For JoyConquestChantingNot Turning AsidePeople TumblingBattle CriesTrumpets For BattleThings Fallingdrums

He collapsed, he fell, he lay down at her feet;he collapsed, he fell at her feet;where he collapsed, there he fell—dead.

Verse ConceptsPeople Tumbling

When Gideon arrived, there was a man telling his friend about a dream. He said, “Listen, I had a dream: a loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp, struck a tent, and it fell. The loaf turned the tent upside down so that it collapsed.”

Verse ConceptsGrainTentsCakesTurning Upside DownDreams Involving Unusual Imagesgideon

When the burnt offering was engulfed in flames that sprang up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame that came from the altar. When Manoah and his wife observed this, they collapsed on their faces to the ground.

Verse ConceptsProstrationCreatures Going UpOther Creatures Going Up

Then Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" He strained with all his strength until the building collapsed on the officials and every person in it. As a result, the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he killed during his lifetime.

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfTypes Of ChristResigned To DeathMercy Killings

Early that morning, the woman made her way back, and as it was getting light, she collapsed at the doorway of the man’s house where her master was.

Verse ConceptsDaybreakPeople TumblingAt Daybreak

When her master got up in the morning, opened the doors of the house, and went out to leave on his journey, there was the woman, his concubine, collapsed near the doorway of the house with her hands on the threshold.

Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news about the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth because her labor pains came on her.

Verse ConceptsPregnancyDaughters In LawOther Wives

Saul then removed his clothes and also prophesied before Samuel; he collapsed and lay naked all that day and all that night. That is why they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NightNudityNaked In ShameIndividual ProphetsOld Sayingssaul

But Asahel refused to turn away, so Abner struck Asahel in the abdomen with the butt end of his spear, and the spear protruded through his back. He collapsed to the ground and died where he fell. Everyone gathered round the place where Asahel had collapsed and died, and stood still there.

Verse ConceptsBackSpearsStomachsPiercingsMotionlessnessComing To RestStriking To Death

David arose, ripped his clothes in anguish, and collapsed to the ground while all of his staff stood by with their own clothes torn.

Verse ConceptsMourningThose Who Tore Clothes

The rest of the Aramean army retreated into Aphek, but the city wall collapsed on 27,000 soldiers who had taken shelter there. Ben-hadad himself ran away and hid inside a closet somewhere in the city.

Verse ConceptsWallsTwenty Thousand And UpPeoples Who FledPrivate Rooms

But Jehu drew his bow with all of his strength, shooting Joram between his shoulder blades. The arrow pierced his heart, and he collapsed in his chariot.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Uses OfArrows, Described AsHeart, HumanArchers, Men Shot ByKilling KingsOther References To The Heart

When I heard this, I tore both my garment and robe, plucked hair from both my head and my beard, and collapsed in shock!

Verse ConceptsMantlesCloaksClothing, Tearing OfBeardsHairsDressTrimming Facial HairHair PluckingThose Who Tore Clothes

Suddenly a powerful wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people so that they died, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Verse ConceptsStormsActing AloneFour CornersDestruction Of HousesFour SidesDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsDeathHurricanes

For we have collapsed in the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.

Verse ConceptsBody

There it was, overgrown with thistles, the ground covered with thorns, its stone wall collapsed.

Verse ConceptsNettlesArchaeologySlothfulnessWeedGrowing

Only desolation remains in the city;its gate has collapsed in ruins.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsArchaeologyDestruction Of Cities

Jerusalem's gates collapsed to the ground; he destroyed and broke the bars of her gates. Both king and prince have gone into captivity. There is no instruction, and the prophets receive no vision from the LORD.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Famine,Poverty, SpiritualVisionsSpiritual DestitutionBreaking SticksDestruction Of JerusalemKings ExiledCity GatesNo VisionsProphecy AbolishedPutting Things Down

When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you, "Where is the whitewash you coated it with?"

Verse ConceptsPlaster

He stood and surveyed the earth;He looked and startled the nations.Yes, the perpetual mountains were shattered,The ancient hills collapsed.His ways are everlasting.

Verse ConceptsHillsTheophanyThe AlmightyEternal WorldMountains RemovedGod ShakingThe Ground Being SplitGod Saves From Sin And Death

The rain fell, the rivers rose, the winds blew and pounded that house, and it collapsed. And its collapse was great!”

Verse ConceptsRainThe Insecurity Of The WickedSpiritual FailureDestruction Of HousesThings FallingRosesFloods

But the one who hears and does not act is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. The river crashed against it, and immediately it collapsed. And the destruction of that house was great!”

Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristCarelessnessLossShallownessHearing ChristThings Falling

At once she collapsed at his feet and died. So when the young men came in, they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of PeterCarrying Dead BodiesPeople TumblingHaving No Breath

At that moment a powerful earthquake struck. One-tenth of the city collapsed, 7,000 people were killed by the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

Verse ConceptsGlorifying GodDanger, PhysicalearthquakesHourSuffering, Nature OfFear, Of NaturalSeven ThousandDestruction Of BabylonTerror Of GodA Tenth Of ThingsThe Rapture

The great city was split into three parts and the cities of the nations collapsed. So Babylon the great was remembered before God, and was given the cup filled with the wine made of God's furious wrath.

Verse ConceptsCup, God's WrathBabylon, In NtRomeSatan, Agents OfWineDestruction Of BabylonCities Under AttackBabylon DestroyedMetaphorical WineGod Remembering SinDividing Into Three ThingsThe Coming Day Of God's WrathBowl JudgmentsCatastrophic EventsThe judgment of babylon

Bible Theasaurus

Burst (49 instances)
Collapse (34 instances)
Collapsed (28 instances)
Crack (10 instances)
Crumble (7 instances)
Founder (7 instances)
Tumble (3 instances)

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