81 occurrences in 13 translations

'Equal' in the Bible

So Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this [a man equal to Joseph], in whom is the divine spirit [of God]?”

Verse ConceptsFindingThe Spirit Of GodUnique IndividualsExcellence

But Judah approached him and begged him, "Your Excellency, please allow your servant to speak to you privately. Please don't be angry with your servant, since you are equal to Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsEquivalent People

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must pay an amount in silver equal to the bridal price for virgins.

Verse ConceptsFathers Responsibilitieswitches

The Lord said to Moses: “Take fragrant spices: stacte, onycha, and galbanum; the spices and pure frankincense are to be in equal measures.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesDrugs

Each curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide; the eleven curtains were of equal size.

Verse ConceptsSame Sizes

And every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, is for all the sons of Aaron in equal measure.

Verse ConceptsOil On Sacrifices

Divide the spoil into two [equal] parts between those who were involved in the war, that is, those who went out to battle and all [the rest of] the congregation.

Verse ConceptsHalf Of PossessionsDividing PlunderWarSharingBattledivision

(In the past the Emim were living there; a great people, equal in numbers to the Anakim and as tall;

Verse ConceptsGiants

They were a great people, tall as the Anakim, and equal to them in number; but the Lord sent destruction on them and the children of Ammon took their place, living in their land;

"LORD God, you've begun to show your greatness and your strong power to your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can equal your works and mighty deeds?

Verse ConceptsGod, Power OfMiracles, Nature OfStrength, DivinePower Of God, DescribedMiracles Showing God's PowerBeginning Of SalvationNo One Is Like GodNo Other Acts Like Godgreatness

They will eat equal portions besides what he has received from the sale of the family estate.

Verse ConceptsEquality In PaymentDividing FoodPermitted To Eat Offerings

[none equal to him] in all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to perform in the land of Egypt against Pharaoh, all his servants, and all his land,

Verse ConceptsOther Miracles

David called to Abner, “You’re a man, aren’t you? Who in Israel is your equal? So why didn’t you protect your lord the king when one of the people came to destroy him?

Verse ConceptsUnique IndividualsPeople Keeping

Who is going to give any attention to you in this question? for an equal part will be given to him who went to the fight and to him who was waiting by the goods: they are all to have the same.

Verse ConceptsEquality In PaymentBaggageSharingBattle

Was he not the noblest of the thirty? so he was made their captain: but he was not equal to the first three

Verse ConceptsThree MenPraising Specific People

He was honoured over the rest of the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three. And David put him over the fighting men who kept him safe.

Verse ConceptsGuardsThirtyPraising Specific People

behold, I have done as you asked. I have given you a wise and discerning heart (mind), so that no one before you was your equal, nor shall anyone equal to you arise after you.

Verse ConceptsDiscernment Of GovernorsWisdom, Human ImportanceUnique Individuals

In addition, I will give you what you did not ask for: both riches and honor, so that no man in any kingdom will be your equal during your entire life.

Verse ConceptsAffluenceMoney, Attitudes ToPresent, TheSource Of HonourWealthy People

So now, command that they cut cedar trees from Lebanon for me, and my servants will join your servants, and I will give you whatever wages you set for your servants. For you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the men of Sidon.”

Verse ConceptsNegotiationServants, Working Conditions OfSkillWagesCommerceFelling TreesCedar Wood

The porch in front of the main room of the house (temple) was twenty cubits long, corresponding to the width of the house, and its depth in front of the house was ten cubits.

Verse ConceptsPorchesDimensions Of Chambers

Of the thirty, he was the noblest, and was made their captain, but he was not equal to the first three.

Verse ConceptsThree Men

He was honoured over the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three: and David put him over his servants.

Verse ConceptsGuardsThirty

These descendants of Gad were army leaders. The least of them was equal to a hundred other soldiers and the greatest to a thousand.

Verse ConceptsOne HundredA Thousand People

And selection was made of them for their special work, all having equal chances, small as well as great, the teacher as the learner.

Verse ConceptsGreat And SmallAssignment

wisdom and knowledge have been granted to you. Furthermore, I will give you riches, wealth, and honor such as none of the kings owned who lived before you and none after you are to ever attain their equal."

Verse ConceptsTemporal BlessingsPresent, TheRiches, Nature OfGifts From God, TemporalRiches

Then he made {the most holy place}. Its length {was equal to} the width of the house: twenty cubits. And its breadth [was] twenty cubits. And he overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold.

Verse ConceptsLengthMost Holy PlaceDimensions Of Chambers

O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you.

Verse ConceptsDependencePower, God's SavingWeakness, PhysicalAfflictions, Prayer DuringPowerlessness

And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold.

Verse ConceptsCoinageHoly VesselsBrassWeights Of Gold

for we have been sold, I and my people, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy; and if for men-servants and for maid-servants we had been sold I had kept silent -- but the adversity is not equal to the loss of the king.'

Verse ConceptsPeople Being SilentMaking SlavesKilling Israelitesrisk

But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?

Verse ConceptsInferioritySelf RespectSelf ExaltationI Am Unimportant

The same things are in my mind as in yours; I am equal to you.

Verse ConceptsInferiorityPeople With General KnowledgeI Am Unimportant

The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

Verse ConceptsCrystalsMineralsPrecious StonesTransparencyBenefits Of WisdomUnique Things

The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

Verse ConceptsEthiopiaPrecious StonesAfricaBenefits Of WisdomUnique Things

Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.

Verse ConceptsMaking DecisionsThe Presence Of Godvindication

Your righteousness, O God, reaches to the [height of the] heavens,You who have done great things;O God, who is like You, [who is Your equal]?

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfSkyWho Is Like God?

For who in the sky is equal to Yahweh? [Who is] like Yahweh among the sons of God,

Verse ConceptsMonotheismComparisonsWho Is Like God?Angels

for wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not equal to it.

Verse ConceptsValuesPrecious StonesBenefits Of WisdomUnique ThingsInternal AdornmentWorthjewelry

The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfLamenessLegsProverbsWise Proverbs

For Assyria says, “Are not my princes all kings?

Verse ConceptsNature Of Kings

You turn things around!Shall the potter be considered as equal with the clay,That what is made would say to its maker, “He did not make me”;Or what is formed say to him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?

Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersClayPotterPotteryTurning Upside DownBeing Without UnderstandingMan's Relationship With His CreatorWeedatheismpot

To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

Verse ConceptsLikeningComparisonsBeyond CompareLikening God

What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

Verse ConceptsSeaVirginLikeningUnique EventsDestruction Of JerusalemThings Like The SeaHuman ComfortLikening ThingsNo HealingSea, Metaphorical ReferencesHealing And Comfort

Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?

Verse ConceptsGod, Perfection OfSuffering, Of The InnocentApparent InjusticeIs God Unjust?

Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To God

Cedars in the garden of God could not [be] equal to it; fir trees could not resemble its branches, and plane trees were not [even] like its branches; any tree [even] in the garden of God could not resemble it in its beauty.

Verse ConceptsBeauty Of ThingsEclipsewaterfalls

“To which among the trees of Eden are you thus equal in glory and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. So is Pharaoh and all his hordes!”’ declares the Lord God.”

Verse ConceptsUncircumcisionDeath Of CreaturesThings Like PeopleDying With The UncircumcisedPutting Things Down

Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

Verse ConceptsIs God Unjust?

Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeInfidelity To GodPartialityIs God Unjust?Repaid For DeedsScoffers

Gate guardhouses stood facing east, numbering three on each side, each of them of equal size to the door jamb; that is, having the same measurement on each side.

Verse ConceptsPillars For Ezekiel's TempleEast GatesSame SizesThree Parts Of ConstructionsRooms Of Ezekiel's Temple

The ledge is 24½ feet long by 24½ feet wide, with four equal sides. The rim all around it is 10½ inches, and its gutter is 21 inches all around it. The altar’s steps face east.”

Verse ConceptsStairwaysSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureFacing EastStepsBase Of Things

The ephah and the bath are to be of equal volume; that is, the bath is to contain one tenth of an omer and the ephah one tenth of an omer. The omer is to be the standard on which their volume measurement is to be based.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DryWeights And Measures, LiquidComparative MeasuresRight Measuresmeasurement

The shekel will weigh 20 gerahs. Your mina will equal 60 shekels.

Verse ConceptsCoinageBanksCoinsComparative MeasuresLarge Denominations

The quota of oil in liquid measures will be one percent of every cor. The cor equals 10 liquid measures or one standard larger capacity measure, since 10 liquid measures equal one standard larger capacity measure.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DryWeights And Measures, LiquidComparative Measures

You will inherit it in equal portions, since I swore to give it to your ancestors. So this land will fall to you as an inheritance.

Verse ConceptsHand Of God

"Running along the border of the tribe of Judah from the eastern perimeter to the western perimeter you are to set apart the Terumah, 25,000 units wide, with its east-west length equal to one of the other apportionments, from the eastern perimeter to the western perimeter, with the Temple in the middle of it.

Verse ConceptsLengthEast And WestMeasuring Jerusalem And The LandPlans For A New Temple

And the Levites are to have a part of the land equal to the limit of the priests', twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide, all of it together to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide.

Verse ConceptsMeasuring Jerusalem And The Land

The king interviewed them, and among all of them, no one was found equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So they began to serve in the king’s court.

Verse ConceptsConversationUnique IndividualsServing Kings

It even magnified itself to be equal with the Commander of the host; and it removed the regular sacrifice from Him, and the place of His sanctuary was thrown down.

Verse ConceptsPrincesDestruction Of The Temple

And if you lend [to those] from whom you expect to receive [back], what kind of credit is [that] to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, so that they may get back an equal [amount]!

Verse ConceptsHope, Nature OfGiving Without Expecting ReturnGiving Backexpectationslent

“Or what woman, if she has ten silver coins [each one equal to a day’s wages] and loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsSeeking For Concrete ThingsFinding ThingsSweepinglosing a loved oneMissing SomeoneLosing A FriendLosing FriendsBeing Lostwomanwomanhood

So he called ten of his servants, and gave them ten minas [one apiece, each equal to about a hundred days’ wages] and said to them, ‘Do business [with this] until I return.’

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TalentsTradeAppropriationTen PeopleLarge DenominationsSpecific Sums Of MoneyEternal PerspectiveBusinessFinancesTalentsGifts And Talentsinvesting

Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Jesus ChristEquality With GodPersecution, Nature OfChrist Would Be KilledRelationship Of Father And SonThe Sabbath And Christrelaxing

Now the one planting and the one watering are one in purpose, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

Verse ConceptsHeavenly RewardsReward, DivineUnified PeopleRepaid For DeedsReward For WorksJudgment According To WorksWorking TogetherSuccess And Hard Work

But so that things may be equal; that from those things of which you have more than enough at the present time their need may be helped, and that if you are in any need they may be a help to you in the same way, making things equal.

Verse ConceptsPeople ProvidingPlenty For The PoorSurplusAbundanceReciprocityHelping Those In NeedHelping Others In Needfairnesssales

For every person will have to bear [with patience] his own burden [of faults and shortcomings for which he alone is responsible].

Verse ConceptsPersonal ResponsibilityHeavy BurdensDutyOverloadResponsibilityconsequencesweight

And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.

Verse ConceptsBreadthHeightLengthSquaresCubesEleven To Nineteen ThousandCity SquaresMeasuring Jerusalem And The LandNew JerusalemNervousnessoutreachmeasurement

Bible Theasaurus

Equal (81 instances)
Equalize (1 instance)
Equate (1 instance)
Equivalent (4 instances)
Level (45 instances)
Match (10 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּלל 
Dalal 
Usage: 9

מישׁר 
meyshar 
Usage: 19

ערך 
`arak 
Usage: 76

ערך 
`erek 
Usage: 33

שׁוה 
Shavah 
Usage: 21

שׁלב 
Shalab 
Usage: 2

תּכן 
Takan 
Usage: 18

ἰσάγγελος 
Isaggelos 
equal to the angels
Usage: 0

ἴσος 
Isos 
Usage: 6

ἰσότης 
Isotes 
Usage: 3

συνηλικιώτης 
sunelikiotes 
Usage: 1

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