47 occurrences in 13 translations

'Face' in the Bible

And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin.

Verse ConceptsUnforgivenessGod Not Forgiving

The look of their face doth witness against them, and they declare their sin as Sodom: they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have brought evil upon themselves.

Verse ConceptsSodom And GomorrahFruits Of SinDisfigurement Of SinCountenanceExpressions On FacesSin Made KnownHarming OneselfWoe To Israel And JerusalemAppearances of

How dare you crush my people as you grind down the face of the poor?" declares the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies.

Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingUnkindnessPoor, The Wicked Response ToGrinding PeopleNot Helping The Poorcrushes

dangling earrings, bracelets, and the hanging veils and scarves,

Verse ConceptsBraceletsOrnamentsVeilsDressjewelry

And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face, and the eyes of pride are put to shame:

Verse ConceptsHumilityArrogance, Punishment OfBeing Humblearroganceimportance

Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

Verse ConceptsCoveringBodySeraphimTheophanyWingsSix ThingsAngel's WingsTwo Of Body PartsThose FlyingCherubimflying

In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head and of the feet, as well as the hair of the face, with a blade got for a price from the other side of the River; even with the king of Assyria.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBarbersBaldnessBeardsHairsHiringLegsShavingRazorsThe Hair Of The BodyTrimming Facial HairCutting HairBeyond The EuphratesHair

They will pass through the land hard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse their king and their God as they face upward.

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, At GodPhysical HungerAnguish, CauseBeggingCursing God

Elder, and accepted of face, he is the head, Prophet, teacher of falsehood, he is the tail.

Verse ConceptsTailsWicked ProphetsHead As ChiefFake Friends

Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

Verse ConceptsFathers, Sin Of TheFruits Of SinParents SinSins Of The FathersMassacresDadsGuilt

The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places, weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut off.

Verse ConceptsBaldness, Figurative UseBaldnessBeardsHeadsHigh PlacesKnives

Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

Verse ConceptsSatan as Destroyer

That is sending by sea ambassadors, Even with implements of reed on the face of the waters, -- Go, ye light messengers, Unto a nation drawn out and peeled, Unto a people fearful from its beginning and onwards, A nation meeting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled.

Verse ConceptsBabylonenvoyPapyrusDivision Of WatersTall PeopleSea TravelBoatsWaters DividingFearing Other People

And lamented have the fishers, And mourned have all casting angle into a brook, And those spreading nets on the face of the waters have languished.

Verse ConceptsFishesLamentingNetsOccupationsFishermen

And it hath been for a sign and for a testimony, To Jehovah of Hosts in the land of Egypt, For they cry unto Jehovah from the face of oppressors, And He sendeth to them a saviour, Even a great one, and hath delivered them.

Verse Conceptsdefence, divineAnswered PromisesCryingThings As Signs

For from the face of destructions they fled, From the face of a stretched-out sword, And from the face of a trodden bow, And from the face of the grievousness of battle.

Verse ConceptsHeatPeoples Who Fled

And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

Verse ConceptsHiring70 To 80 YearsGod Visiting

Lo, Jehovah is emptying the land, And is making it waste, And hath overturned it on its face, And hath scattered its inhabitants.

Verse ConceptsChaosWasteScattering The PeoplesDestruction Of The World

And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.

Verse ConceptsRemoving People From Your LifeThe Environment

When a pregnant woman cometh near to the birth, She is pained -- she crieth in her pangs, So we have been from Thy face, O Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsWomen's Strengthchildbearing

He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

Verse ConceptsBlossomFilling PlacesRootsPotential Of FruitGod's People PlantedRoses

When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

Verse ConceptsHerbs And SpicesCummin

Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.

Verse ConceptsGod, As Redeemerredeemed

turn aside from [the] way, turn aside from [the] path, put an end to the holy one of Israel from our face."

Verse ConceptsConfrontationUnhearing

And fallen hath Asshur by sword, not of the high, Yea, a sword -- not of the low, doth consume him, And he hath fled for himself from the face of a sword, And his young men become tributary.

Verse ConceptsSwordsGod KillingGod Will Kill The PeoplesForced Labour

Their dead bodies will be thick on the face of the earth, and their smell will come up, and the mountains will be flowing with their blood, and all the hills will come to nothing.

Verse ConceptsCovered With BloodUnicorns

How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Verse ConceptsChariotsOfficersTrusting In ChariotsTrusting Other People

Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,

Verse ConceptsWallsRecovery

Then it will be used to make a fire, so that a man may get warm; he has the oven heated with it and makes bread: he makes a god with it, to which he gives worship: he makes a pictured image out of it, and goes down on his face before it.

Verse ConceptsAdoration, FalseTreesWarmingFirewoodSelf Imagecookingimage

And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.

Verse ConceptsBowingReligionIdolatry Consists OfPraying Amissimage

And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, Idolatry IsIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToDullnessBowing To False GodsBaking BreadFirewoodHalf Of ThingsThose Who Were Ignorant

And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

Verse ConceptsFeetAssurance, basis ofBowingDust, Figurative UseHope, Results OfProstrationStomachsKings, How They Should ActNot Put To ShameHope For The RighteousMothersDisappointmentMotherhoodTaking Care Of The Earth

For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

Verse ConceptsFlintNot AshamedProtection, From GodSteadfastness, Examples OfDeterminationWhole HeartednessGod HelpsDisappointmentStaying Strong During Hard Times

The one who vindicates me is near. Who, then, will bring a charge against me? Let's face each other! Who has a case against me? Let him confront me!

Verse ConceptsGod, Present EverywhereGod, Righteousness OfSalvation, Nature OfNearness To GodGod Vindicatesaccusationsvindication

And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.

Verse ConceptsProstrationTorture

Just as many were astonished and appalled at you, My people,So His appearance was marred more than any manAnd His form [marred] more than the sons of men.

Verse ConceptsAtonementHumiliationMessianic PropheciesBlemished PeopleAppearances ofrecognitionscarsJesus Eyes

Because of his wicked greed I was angry, so I punished him; and I hid my face, and was angry but he kept turning back to his stubborn will.

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofSin, Nature OfCharacter Of WickedHow Sin Comes With AfflictionsGod HidingCovetousnessGreed

A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;

Verse ConceptsBricksGarden, NaturalSacrifice, In OtBurning SacrificesIdolatryGrieving God

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