117 occurrences

'Followed' in the Bible

Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

Verse ConceptsCamelsRiding CamelsYoung Ladies

He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.

Verse ConceptsMen's Orders

but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and has followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of FaithFaithfulness, Examples OfLoyaltyReliabilitySpirit, Emotional Aspects OfFollowing GodServant Leadership

Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.

'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersJacob, The PatriarchExclusionAncestorsFollowing God

except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have followed Yahweh completely.'

Verse ConceptsConsecration, Examples OfFollowing God

except Caleb the son of Jephunneh: he shall see it; and to him will I give the land that he has trodden on, and to his children, because he has wholly followed Yahweh."

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, Examples OfFollowing God

Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.

Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, HistoryGod KillingGod Killed His PeopleLooking At God's Works

and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; how the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the midst of all Israel:

Verse ConceptsSwallowing

It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before Yahweh advanced, and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh followed them.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalMusical Instruments, Made OfSeven PeopleSeven ThingsThe Ark Moved AroundSeven Trumpets

Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.

Verse ConceptsCowardiceFollowing GodLosing Courage

Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land where you walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God.'

Verse ConceptsFeetReliabilityEternal PossessionFollowing GodFeet In Action

Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day; because he wholly followed Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsFollowing GodWhere People Live To This Day

and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentRenunciationBowing To False GodsDifferent GodsGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

He said to them, "Follow me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand." They followed him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn't allow any man to pass over.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsFordsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

They gave him seventy [pieces] of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.

Verse ConceptsCoinageHiring

All the people likewise each cut down his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

Verse ConceptsA Thousand PeopleBurning CitiesKilling Within IsraelPrivate Rooms

Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in its midst.

Verse ConceptsTurning One's Back

They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck of them two thousand men.

Verse ConceptsTwo ThousandFive ThousandOvertaking

Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

Verse ConceptsFear Of Enemies

Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.

Verse ConceptsHeatHiding From PeoplePeoples Who Fled

David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul.

Verse ConceptsThree ChildrenThe Youngest Child

David said to his men, "Every man put on his sword!" Every man put on his sword. David also put on his sword. About four hundred men followed David; and two hundred stayed by the baggage.

Verse ConceptsThe Number Two HundredFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredBaggage

Abigail hurried, and arose, and rode on a donkey, with five ladies of hers who followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

Verse ConceptsFive PeopleRiding Donkeys

The Philistines followed hard on Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

Verse ConceptsKilling Named Individuals

The young man who told him said, "As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.

Verse ConceptsChariotsChanceAttacking With ChariotsOther Supporting

Ishbosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.

Verse ConceptsTwo YearsList Of Kings Of Israel

Joab said, "As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people would have gone away, and not each followed his brother."

Her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, "Go! Return!" and he returned.

Verse ConceptsWeeping

David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. King David followed the bier.

Verse ConceptsGesturesClothingClothSackcloth And AshesPreparation For Burial

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, and arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

Verse ConceptsDespair, Description OfHangingHope, Results Of Its AbsenceHousesPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSuicideTombsPutting In OrderIndividuals going homePeople Hung To DeathPreparing To TravelSaddling Donkeys

So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsPeople Following People

It happened, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none who followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

Verse ConceptsLoyaltyCoronationsMaking KingsList Of Kings Of Israelalignment

and tore the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,

Verse ConceptsHeart, And Holy SpiritWhole Heartedness

Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.

Verse ConceptsFractions, One HalfTwo GroupsMaking KingsHalf Of GroupsList Of Kings Of Israel

But the people who followed Omri prevailed against the people who followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.

He answered, "I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father's house, in that you have forsaken the commandments of Yahweh, and you have followed the Baals.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentevil, believers' responses toRebukeForsaking God's ThingsFollowers Of BaalTroubling Groups Of People

So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.

So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey. There was no water for the army, nor for the animals that followed them.

Verse ConceptsWaterDry PlacesSeven DaysNo Water For People

The mother of the child said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." He arose, and followed her.

Verse ConceptsBeing A MotherCompanionshipMothers Love For Her Children

So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he came down from the chariot to meet him, and said, "Is all well?"

Verse ConceptsChariotsIndividuals RunningPeople Following People

But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house. Jehu followed after him, and said, "Strike him also in the chariot!" They struck him at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.

Verse ConceptsShoutingMegiddo

He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin; he didn't depart from it.

They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

Verse ConceptsFutilityFalse ReligionConformityPrayerlessnessRejection Of GodImitating Wicked PeopleForsaking God's ThingsUseless EndeavourBreaking The Covenant

The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us took off our clothes. Everyone took his weapon to the water.

Verse ConceptsWeaponsPeople Stripping Off

The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,

Verse ConceptsVirginMusical Instruments, types ofOrchestrasSingersYoung Ladiesinstrumentsdrums

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

Verse ConceptsBeing Killed Like An AnimalKilled Like An AnimalDeerimpulsiveness

When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it; they didn't turn as they went.

Verse ConceptsFour CornersNot Turning AsideNorth, South, East And WestFour SidesDirection

Plague went before him, and pestilence followed his feet.

Verse ConceptsPestilence

You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

Verse ConceptsFutilityProfitsUseless ReligionServing Godimprovement

They immediately left the boat and their father, and followed him.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to Jesus Christdiscipleship, nature of

Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and from beyond the Jordan followed him.

Verse ConceptsMultitudesFollowing Jesus ChristLargenessPopularityPopularity Of ChristCrowds Around JesusBeyond Jordan

When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, "Most certainly I tell you, I haven't found so great a faith, not even in Israel.

Verse ConceptsAmazingAffirmationsFaith, Growth InMission, Of Jesus ChristAttitudes Of FaithMarvelling

When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him.

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus ChristBoats

As Jesus passed by from there, two blind men followed him, calling out and saying, "Have mercy on us, son of David!"

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus ChristDiseases, Kinds OfMiracles Of ChristTwo Needy MenBe Merciful!Blindnessfollowing

Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat, to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus ChristSeafaringCrowds Around JesusActing AloneBoats

As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.

Verse ConceptsLargenessCrowds Around Jesus

The multitudes who went before him, and who followed kept shouting, "Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"

Verse ConceptsdoxologyCovenant, God's with DavidPraise, Manner And Methods OfJesus As Son Of DavidCrowds Around JesusGroups ShoutingSpecific Praising Of GodThings On HighSave Us!The Fact Of His ComingIn God's Namemath

But Peter followed him from a distance, to the court of the high priest, and entered in and sat with the officers, to see the end.

Verse ConceptsPeople Sitting DownEnd Of Actionsdistanceprepping

Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him.

Verse ConceptsLove Towards Christ, Shown ByFriendship, Examples OfSeeing At A Distancedistanceministering

Simon and those who were with him followed after him;

Verse ConceptsFinding

It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus ChristGuestsHospitality, Examples OfTax CollectorsServing JesusReclining To EatReceiving Jesus As A GuestJesus Eating

Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,

Verse ConceptsCrowdsFollowing Jesus ChristDisciples' Movementslakes

He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him.

Verse ConceptsDisciples' Movements

Peter began to tell him, "Behold, we have left all, and have followed you."

Verse ConceptsSurrenderingPeter, The DiscipleForsaking All OthersRenunciationSelf Denial

They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.

Verse ConceptsDivine LeadingLonelinessFear, Of FutureChrist Going BeforePredicting The FutureTwelve Disciples

Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus ChristFaith, And Blessings Of GodHealingFaith And HealingHope And Healing

Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!

Verse ConceptsAcclaimingPeople Going BeforeGroups ShoutingBlessed In ServiceSave Us!The Fact Of His ComingIn God's Name

A certain young man followed him, having a linen cloth thrown around himself, over his naked body. The young men grabbed him,

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus ChristLinenIdentity In Christteenager

Peter had followed him from a distance, until he came into the court of the high priest. He was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire.

Verse ConceptsWarming

who, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and served him; and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus Christministering

When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything, and followed him.

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus Christdiscipleship, nature ofSelf DenialBoats

When Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turned and said to the multitude who followed him, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith, no, not in Israel."

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus ChristFaith, Growth InCommendationMission, Of Jesus ChristMarvellingAttitudes Of Faithsurprises

But the multitudes, perceiving it, followed him. He welcomed them, and spoke to them of the Kingdom of God, and he cured those who needed healing.

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus ChristdoctorsHealingCrowds Around JesusWelcomed By GodJesus Healing

Immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God. All the people, when they saw it, praised God.

Verse ConceptsFollowing Jesus Christ

He came out, and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him.

Verse ConceptsDisciples' Movements

They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed from a distance.

Verse ConceptsArrestingHigh Priest, In NtArresting Christdistance

A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.

Verse ConceptsLamentingLargenessTearsCrowds Around JesusMourning The Death Of Christ

All his acquaintances, and the women who followed with him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.

Verse ConceptsWomenSeeing At A DistanceWatching Christ

The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid.

Verse ConceptsJesus CorpseWatching Christ

The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

Verse ConceptsTwo Disciples

One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.

Verse ConceptsAndrewCommitment, to Jesus Christcredibility

Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there."

Verse ConceptsMourningComfort, Of FriendsSpeedPeople Following PeoplePeople Getting UpMourning The Death Of Others

Bible Theasaurus

Accompany (60 instances)
Adopt (6 instances)
Comply (5 instances)
Espouse (2 instances)
Follow (353 instances)
Followed (269 instances)
Observe (357 instances)
Pursue (143 instances)
Succeed (82 instances)
Survey (8 instances)
Trace (12 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
διώκω 
Dioko 
Usage: 28

ἐπακολουθέω 
Epakoloutheo 
Usage: 4

κατακολουθέω 
Katakoloutheo 
Usage: 2

ἀκολουθέω 
Akoloutheo 
Usage: 67

δεῦτε 
Deute 
come , follow 9
Usage: 3

ἐξακολουθέω 
Exakoloutheo 
Usage: 3

ἑξῆς 
hexes 
Usage: 5

ἐπαύριον 
Epaurion 
Usage: 17

ἐπιοῦσα 
Epiousa 
Usage: 5

καταδιώκω 
Katadioko 
Usage: 1

μιμέομαι 
Mimeomai 
Usage: 4

μιμητής 
Mimetes 
Usage: 7

ὄπίσω 
Opiso 
Usage: 20

παρακολουθέω 
Parakoloutheo 
Usage: 3

συμμιμητής 
Summimetes 
Usage: 1

συνακολουθέω 
sunakoloutheo 
Usage: 2