65 occurrences

'Even' in the Bible

“How well you prepare your wayTo seek love!Therefore even the wicked womenYou have taught your ways.

Verse ConceptsSkillDegradationDecadenceMisteachingFinding Lovelovers

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our humiliation cover us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. And we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”

Verse ConceptsSin, Effects OfParents SinSelf AbasementBeing Evil From YouthShame Has ComeWe Have Sinned

“Yet even in those days,” declares the Lord, “I will not make you a complete destruction.

Verse ConceptsNot Destroyed

“For from the least of them even to the greatest of them,Everyone is greedy for gain,And from the prophet even to the priestEveryone deals falsely.

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofGreed, Condemnation OfPriests, Function In Ot TimesProfitsCovetousness, Example OfWicked ProphetsGreat And SmallCovetousnessGreedpractice

“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done?They were not even ashamed at all;They did not even know how to blush.Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;At the time that I punish them,They shall be cast down,” says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsRegretCorrupted ConsciencesThe Insecurity Of The WickedBlushingPeople StumblingRed FacesUnknown ThingsAbsence Of RegretFeeling Lost

Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” declares the Lord.

Verse ConceptsRespect, For God's CharacterStealingDensStatus Of The TempleA Place For God's Namethieves

Even the stork in the skyKnows her seasons;And the turtledove and the swift and the thrushObserve the time of their migration;But My people do not knowThe ordinance of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsdovesSkyThe Right TimeBirds, Features OfBirds, Types Of BirdsInstinctSwallowsAutumnKnowingGod's TimingGods Timing

“Therefore I will give their wives to others,Their fields to new owners;Because from the least even to the greatestEveryone is greedy for gain;From the prophet even to the priestEveryone practices deceit.

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofGreed, Condemnation OfProfitsMen DeceivingWicked ProphetsGreat And SmallTransferring WivesGreedWifespousepracticecheatersothers

For I solemnly warned your fathers in the day that I brought them up from the land of Egypt, even to this day, warning persistently, saying, “Listen to My voice.”

Verse ConceptsWatchfulness, DivineThose Who Rose EarlyPay Attention To God!God Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

You have planted them, they have also taken root;They grow, they have even produced fruit.You are near to their lipsBut far from their mind.

Verse ConceptsLipsNominal ReligionRootsMetaphorical PlantingLack Of Meaning

“On all the bare heights in the wildernessDestroyers have come,For a sword of the Lord is devouringFrom one end of the land even to the other;There is no peace for anyone.

Verse ConceptsSafetyThose Who DestroyNo Peace

Then if they will really learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ even as they taught My people to swear by Baal, they will be built up in the midst of My people.

Verse ConceptsOaths, HumanFollowers Of BaalSwearing BySwearing

“For even the doe in the field has given birth only to abandon her young,Because there is no grass.

Verse ConceptsDeersGrassYoung AnimalAnimals ForsakingDeer Etc.Deer

Thus says the Lord to this people, “Even so they have loved to wander; they have not kept their feet in check. Therefore the Lord does not accept them; now He will remember their iniquity and call their sins to account.”

Verse ConceptsIniquity, God's Attitude TowardRestlessnessRestraintSelf ControlWhy Prayer Is UnansweredUnanswered PrayerWanderersGod Remembering SinLoving Evil

Then the Lord said to me, “Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My heart would not be with this people; send them away from My presence and let them go!

Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodRejection Of God, Results OfReprobates

“Your wealth and your treasuresI will give for booty without cost,Even for all your sinsAnd within all your borders.

Verse ConceptsTreasureFree Of Chargeborders

You too have done evil, even more than your forefathers; for behold, you are each one walking according to the stubbornness of his own evil heart, without listening to Me.

Verse ConceptsHardened HeartsHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedDeteriorationimagination

And you will, even of yourself, let go of your inheritanceThat I gave you;And I will make you serve your enemiesIn the land which you do not know;For you have kindled a fire in My angerWhich will burn forever.

Verse ConceptsFaultsLand, As A Divine GiftLossUnknown ThingsAbandoning ThingsServing GroupsInheritanceIdentityculture

O Lord, the hope of Israel,All who forsake You will be put to shame.Those who turn away on earth will be written down,Because they have forsaken the fountain of living water, even the Lord.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentForsaking GodHope, As ConfidenceShameSpring Of WaterWellsMetaphorical SpringsJudgements WrittenConsequences Of Forsaking GodLiving WaterWells, Figurative Useisraeldust

and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Just so will I break this people and this city, even as one breaks a potter’s vessel, which cannot again be repaired; and they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place for burial.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of JerusalemInadequate BurialsRepairingBurying places

I will also give over all the wealth of this city, all its produce and all its costly things; even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give over to the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away and bring them to Babylon.

Verse ConceptsPossessions Taken To BabylonTreasure

I Myself will war against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, even in anger and wrath and great indignation.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfStrength Of God

Then afterwards,” declares the Lord, “I will give over Zedekiah king of Judah and his servants and the people, even those who survive in this city from the pestilence, the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their foes and into the hand of those who seek their lives; and he will strike them down with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them nor have pity nor compassion.”’

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofdefeatMercy, HumanNot SparingGod Will Cause DefeatPeople Without Mercy

For if you men will indeed perform this thing, then kings will enter the gates of this house, sitting in David’s place on his throne, riding in chariots and on horses, even the king himself and his servants and his people.

Verse ConceptsHorsesThe Dynasty Of David

“As I live,” declares the Lord, “even though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were a signet ring on My right hand, yet I would pull you off;

Verse ConceptsRingsSealsEvil For The Right HandTaking Other People

and I will give you over into the hand of those who are seeking your life, yes, into the hand of those whom you dread, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleTo Be Given Into One's Hands

As for the prophets:My heart is broken within me,All my bones tremble;I have become like a drunken man,Even like a man overcome with wine,Because of the LordAnd because of His holy words.

Verse ConceptsBrokennessAlcoholdefeatWineIndividuals TremblingBroken Heartsheartbroken

“For both prophet and priest are polluted;Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.

Verse ConceptsLeaders, SpiritualWicked ProphetsPeople Being Unclean

“Behold, the storm of the Lord has gone forth in wrath,Even a whirling tempest;It will swirl down on the head of the wicked.

Verse ConceptsStormsWeather, As God's JudgmentWhirlwindsHurricanesGod Controls Storms

How long? Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy falsehood, even these prophets of the deception of their own heart,

Verse ConceptsHardness Of HeartDeception Through False TeachersSatan, As DeceiverBefore People ActLying And Deceit

“From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.

Verse ConceptsListeningWord Of God20 To 30 YearsThose Who Rose EarlySaying Repeatedly

(For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.)’”

Verse ConceptsRepaid For Deeds

and all the foreign people, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (even Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod);

Verse ConceptsMixed MultitudeSurvivors Of The Nations

Hananiah spoke in the presence of all the people, saying, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Even so will I break within two full years the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations.’” Then the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

Verse ConceptsTwo Years

who has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day both in Israel and among mankind; and You have made a name for Yourself, as at this day.

Verse ConceptsSigns And Wonders Before Christ

“Indeed this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day, so that it should be removed from before My face,

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Jerusalem

“Take a scroll and write on it all the words which I have spoken to you concerning Israel and concerning Judah, and concerning all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, even to this day.

Verse ConceptsCommunicationBooksScrollsBooks Of ProphecyInspiration

Even though Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah pleaded with the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

For even if you had defeated the entire army of Chaldeans who were fighting against you, and there were only wounded men left among them, each man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.’”

Verse ConceptsdefeatBurning Jerusalem

they even sent and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guardhouse and entrusted him to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. So he stayed among the people.

Verse ConceptsPeople Set Free By Peopleliberation

So I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the Lord your God, even in whatever He has sent me to tell you.

But they have not become contrite even to this day, nor have they feared nor walked in My law or My statutes, which I have set before you and before your fathers.”’

Verse ConceptsIrreverenceHumilityRemorseNo Fear Of GodBreaking God's LawHumble Yourself

“Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am going to set My face against you for woe, even to cut off all Judah.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of JerusalemGod Opposing

Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and women—even to all the people who were giving him such an answer—saying,

Egypt rises like the Nile,Even like the rivers whose waters surge about;And He has said, “I will rise and cover that land;I will surely destroy the city and its inhabitants.”

Verse ConceptsLike A Flood

“Make your baggage ready for exile,O daughter dwelling in Egypt,For Memphis will become a desolation;It will even be burned down and bereft of inhabitants.

Verse ConceptsRuinsArchaeologyMemphisExiled ForeignersBurning CitiesBaggagePreparing To Travel

“Also her mercenaries in her midstAre like fattened calves,For even they too have turned back and have fled away together;They did not stand their ground.For the day of their calamity has come upon them,The time of their punishment.

Verse ConceptsHiringVisitation

“They have cut down her forest,” declares the Lord;“Surely it will no more be found,Even though they are now more numerous than locustsAnd are without number.

Verse ConceptsForestsMany CombatantsInsectsLocustsFelling Trees

The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I am going to punish Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt along with her gods and her kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsTrust, Lack OfTrusting Others

I shall give them over to the power of those who are seeking their lives, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of his officers. Afterwards, however, it will be inhabited as in the days of old,” declares the Lord.

Verse ConceptsThe Prophecy Towards EgyptInhabitationDepression

“For because of your trust in your own achievements and treasures,Even you yourself will be captured;And Chemosh will go off into exileTogether with his priests and his princes.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsMoney, Attitudes ToRich, TheRiches, Ungodly Use OfTrust, Lack OfFalse ConfidenceExiled ForeignersTrusting Riches

“Mourn for him, all you who live around him,Even all of you who know his name;Say, ‘How has the mighty scepter been broken,A staff of splendor!’

Verse ConceptsSceptreSorrowDeposing

“Therefore I will wail for Moab,Even for all Moab will I cry out;I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.

Verse ConceptsGod, Suffering OfI Mourn Catastrophe

“So gladness and joy are taken awayFrom the fruitful field, even from the land of Moab.And I have made the wine to cease from the wine presses;No one will tread them with shouting,The shouting will not be shouts of joy.

Verse ConceptsWineWinepressDestroying VineyardsDepression, SymptomsCessationNo FoodLack Of Rejoicing

From the outcry at Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz they have raised their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim will become desolate.

Verse Conceptsdryness

“The one who flees from the terrorWill fall into the pit,And the one who climbs up out of the pitWill be caught in the snare;For I shall bring upon her, even upon Moab,The year of their punishment,” declares the Lord.

Verse ConceptsYearsThe Day Of JudgementGod TrappingFear Will Come

Therefore hear the plan of the Lord which He has planned against Edom, and His purposes which He has purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: surely they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely He will make their pasture desolate because of them.

Verse ConceptsPlansGod's Plans

‘So I will shatter Elam before their enemiesAnd before those who seek their lives;And I will bring calamity upon them,Even My fierce anger,’ declares the Lord,‘And I will send out the sword after themUntil I have consumed them.

Verse Conceptsend

“All who came upon them have devoured them;And their adversaries have said, ‘We are not guilty,Inasmuch as they have sinned against the Lord who is the habitation of righteousness,Even the Lord, the hope of their fathers.’

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdHope, Nature OfPlea Of Innocence

Therefore hear the plan of the Lord which He has planned against Babylon, and His purposes which He has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: surely they will drag them off, even the little ones of the flock; surely He will make their pasture desolate because of them.

Verse ConceptsPlansGod's Plans

“They will not take from you even a stone for a cornerNor a stone for foundations,But you will be desolate forever,” declares the Lord.

Verse ConceptsBabylonHousesCornerstoneBuilding Stones Rejected

“I will punish Bel in Babylon,And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth;And the nations will no longer stream to him.Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!

Verse ConceptsBabylonBabylon, History OfFortificationsFalse GodsThe judgment of babylon

He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire.

Verse ConceptsPalacesDestruction Of HousesBurning Jerusalem

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