'Fortune' in the Bible
Then Leah said, “What good fortune!” and she named him Gad.
so that they may be offering incense to the God of heaven and may be praying for the good fortune of the king and his family.
The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.
"Have I ever said, 'Give me something, and from your fortune make gifts in my favor'?
Whereas another dies with a bitter soul,Never even tasting pleasure or good fortune.
if I have rejoiced because my wealth [was] great or because my hand found a fortune,
Then Yahweh returned Job's fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus Yahweh increased {all that Job had twice as much as before}.
Fortune and glory [are] with me, enduring wealth and righteousness.
Making a fortune through a lying tongueis a vanishing mist, a pursuit of death.
the hero and warrior,the judge and prophet,the fortune-teller and elder,
But you who abandon the Lord,who forget My holy mountain,who prepare a table for Fortuneand fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
We hoped for good fortune, but nothing good has come of it. We hoped for a time of relief, but instead we experience terror.
He who makes a fortune unjustlyis like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay.In the middle of his dayshis riches will abandon him,so in the end he will be a fool.
"For I, the Lord, say: 'I will surely bring on these people all the good fortune that I am hereby promising them. I will be just as sure to do that as I have been in bringing all this great disaster on them.
"Go and tell Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, 'The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, "I will carry out against this city what I promised. It will mean disaster and not good fortune for it. When that disaster happens, you will be there to see it.
Yet in days to come I will reverse Moab's ill fortune." says the Lord. The judgment against Moab ends here.
Yet in days to come I will reverse Ammon's ill fortune." says the Lord.
"Yet in days to come I will reverse Elam's ill fortune." says the Lord.
Your prophets had a vision for you, false and worthless; they have not exposed your sin, to restore your fortune; they have seen oracles for you, false and misleading.
And I will restore their fortune, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and [even] the fortunes of your captivity in the midst of them,
Ephraim claims, "I have become rich, I have made a fortune! Because of all my wealth, no one will find any iniquity or sin in me.'
And the coast will beFor the remnant of the house of Judah,They will pasture on it.In the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down at evening;For the Lord their God will care for themAnd restore their fortune.
A few days later, the younger son gathered together everything [that he had] and traveled to a distant country, and there he wasted his fortune in reckless and immoral living.