36 occurrences

'Fierce' in the Bible

Cursed be their anger, for [it is] fierce, and their wrath, for [it is] cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel.

Verse ConceptsCursing The UngodlyFierce MenAngry People

And in the greatness of your majesty you overthrew those standing up [to] you; you released your fierce anger, and it consumed them like stubble.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfAnger Of God, ConsequencesConfrontationGod Angry With The Nations

Why should [the] Egyptians {say}, 'With evil [intent] he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth'? Turn from {your fierce anger} and relent concerning the disaster for your people.

Verse ConceptsGod Changing His MindGod Might Kill His PeopleGod Turned Back From Harming ThemLet Not God Be AngryGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Yahweh said to Moses, "Take all {the leaders} of the people and kill them before the sun, so the fierce anger of Yahweh will turn from Israel."

Verse ConceptsPeople Hung To DeathAction Lest God Be Angry

Behold, you stand in the place of your fathers, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more {Yahweh's fierce anger} against Israel.

Verse ConceptsPrejudiceChildren Of Evil

Then ten thousand well-trained men from all Israel came out against Gibeah, and the battle became fierce; they did not know that disaster [was about to] {close in} on them.

Verse ConceptsTens Of Thousands

Because you {did not obey} Yahweh and did not carry out the fierce anger of his {wrath} against Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you today.

Verse ConceptsDisobedience, Examples OfApostasy Of SaulGod Angry With The Nations

Then the battle {became increasingly fierce} on that day, and Abner and the men of Israel [were] defeated before the servants of David.

Verse ConceptsdefeatDefeat Of God's People

So now, listen to me and return the captives of your brothers whom you have taken captive, for the fierce anger of Yahweh [is] against you."

Now {it is in my heart} to {make} a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger might turn away from him.

Now, do not stiffen your neck as your fathers, but give a hand to Yahweh and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve Yahweh your God that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

Verse ConceptsSanctuaryStiffnecked People

Please let our leaders stand for the whole assembly, and let all that are in our cities who have married foreign women come at set times, and with them the elders of and judges of each city, until the fierce wrath of our God because of this matter is averted from us."

Verse ConceptsJudgesTownGod Will No More Be Angry

Did not your ancestors do this also, and our God brought on us all of this disaster and on this city [too]? Now you are adding fierce wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath!"

Verse ConceptsSabbath Violated

[Is] it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who [then] [is] he [who] would stand {before it}?

Verse ConceptsAble To StandFierce Men

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love [is] strong as death; passion [is] fierce as Sheol; its flashes [are] flashes of fire; [it is] a blazing flame.

Verse ConceptsLove Towards Christ, The Nature OfThe Fact Of DeathPassionrelentless

And you must say to him, 'Take heed and be quiet! You must not fear, and your heart must not be faint because of these two stumps of smoldering firebrands, {because of the fierce anger of} Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah.

Verse ConceptsBattlesAliancesFaint HeartednessTwo Other MenFear And Worrysmoking

He has cut down {in fierce anger} all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn his right hand from the faces of [the] enemy, and he has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire, it has consumed all around.

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodHornsRight Hand Of GodHorns WeakenedSevering Body Parts

Yahweh has completed his anger, he has poured out {his fierce anger}; he has kindled a fire in Zion, it consumed her foundations.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsDestruction Of JerusalemBurning Jerusalemventing

And I will send against you famine and fierce animals, and they will make you childless; and plague and blood will pass through you, and I will bring [the] sword upon you. I, Yahweh, I have spoken!"

Verse ConceptsWar As God's JudgmentFamine Coming From GodBereavementKilling Will Happen

"If a fierce animal I [should] let cross through the land, and it [should] make it childless and it will be desolation, so that [there will] not [be] one crossing over [the land] {due to} the presence of the animal,

Verse ConceptsLand Becoming Empty

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "How much more when I send my four punishments--the evil sword, and famine, and fierce animal, and a plague--to Jerusalem to cut it off, [both] human and animal!

Verse ConceptsPlaguesPestilenceDestruction Of All CreaturesFamine Coming From GodFour Other ThingsBoth Men And Animals Killed

And she raised up one from her cubs; he became a fierce lion, and he learned to tear prey; he ate humans.

Verse ConceptsAnimals Eating People

And she saw that she was waiting [in vain]; her hope was destroyed, and she took one from her cubs, [and] she made him a fierce lion.

Verse ConceptsWithout Hope

And he walked about in the midst of lions; he became a fierce lion, and he learned to tear prey; he ate humans.

Verse ConceptsHuntingAnimals Eating People

"Son of man, raise a lament over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and you must say to him, '[With] a fierce, strong lion among nations you compared yourself, and you [are] like the sea monster in the seas, and you thrash about in your rivers, and you make water turbid with your feet, and you make your rivers muddy.

Verse ConceptsWhalesCosmic CreaturesLike Creatures

And [the] face of a human {was toward} the palm tree image {on the one side}, and [the] face of a fierce strong lion {faced} the palm tree image {on the other side}; {this work was executed} for the entire temple {all the way around}.

Verse ConceptsCreatures Like LionsLike Men

And at the end of their kingdom, when the transgressions are completed, a king will arise, fierce in countenance and skilled in riddles.

Verse ConceptsAntichrist, Names ForProper UnderstandingStrictnessMan's Work Finished

Because I [will be] like a lion to Ephraim and like a fierce strong lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear and I will go; I will carry off, and there is no one who delivers.

Verse ConceptsRescuePeople Torn To PiecesGod Like A LionLike CreaturesNo One Can Save

{I will not execute} {my fierce anger}, I will not again destroy Ephraim; because I [am] God and not a mortal, [the] Holy [One] in your midst; and I will not come in wrath.

Verse ConceptsSanctification, Nature And BasisAnger Of God, Saved FromGod In Relation To ManGod Will No More Be AngryMan's Relation To God

Does a lion roar in the forest {when he has no prey}? Does a fierce, young lion cry out from his den unless he has caught [something]?

Verse ConceptsHunting

The one who makes destruction flash upon [the] fierce, {so that} destruction comes upon [the] fortification.

Verse ConceptsCityGod DestroyingDestruction Of Strongholds

His indignation--who can stand before it? Who can endure {his fierce anger}? His wrath is poured out like fire; rocks are shattered before him.

Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, Nature OfGod's IndignationPunishment, By GodRocksSplitting RocksFire Of God's AngerStanding FirmGod Has AngerLake Of FirePassionwrathventing

Where [now] [is] the den of [the] lions and [the] cave of the fierce lions? There the lioness, the cub, and the lion once {prowled}, {and no one disturbed them}.

Verse ConceptsMotionlessnessDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of CreaturesUndisturbed

"Look! I am against you!" {declares} Yahweh of hosts. "I will burn her chariots {with fire}; the sword will devour fierce lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth; the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."

Verse ConceptsChariotsSmokeCessationDestroying ChariotsKilling Wild AnimalsDeliverance From Lions

Before the birth of the decree, the day flies away like chaff; before the fierce anger of Yahweh overtakes you; before the day of the anger of Yahweh overtakes you.

Verse ConceptsLight As ChaffThe Coming Day Of God's Wrath

Bible Theasaurus

Boisterous (7 instances)
Ferocious (6 instances)
Fierce (120 instances)
Fiery (69 instances)
Furious (78 instances)
Rough (26 instances)
Savage (9 instances)
Tearing (24 instances)
Vehement (10 instances)
Violent (199 instances)