48 occurrences in 12 translations

'Found' in the Bible

After threatening them further, they released them. They found no way to punish them, because the people were all giving glory to God over what had been done;

Verse ConceptsPeople Set Free By PeopleSpecific Praising Of God

Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of PeterCarrying Dead BodiesPeople TumblingHaving No Breath

But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,

Verse ConceptsOfficersNot Findingjail

Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

Verse ConceptsKeysStandingPrison KeepersEmpty PlacesShutting DoorsLocks And Barspreppingjail

The statement found approval with the whole congregation; and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of FaithFaith, Growth InJudaismSpiritualityIndwelling Of The Holy SpiritAntioch in SyriaProselytesBeing Filled With The SpiritBelieving In GodOthers Believing In God

Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfNo Food

The next day, also, he came and found two of them fighting, and he endeavoured to make peace between them. "'Sirs,' he said, 'you are brothers. Why are you wronging one another?'

Verse ConceptsLove Between RelativesWronging Other PeopleFighting One Another

Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

Verse ConceptsDivine FavourBuilding God's DwellingFavor

But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.

Verse ConceptsMission, Of The ChurchTravelevangelizing

And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsArrestingequipping, physicalWay, TheTying Updamascus

When the brothers found out, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.

And there he found a certain man named AEneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.

Verse ConceptsParalyticsEight Or Nine YearsBeds

Now while Peter was greatly perplexed within himself [as to] what the vision that he had seen might be, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having found the house of Simon by asking around, stood at the gate.

Verse ConceptsGatesComing To GatesAsking Particular QuestionsPuzzlementPeople Sending People

And as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were come together.

Verse ConceptsDealing With Many PeopleWhile Still Speaking

So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision [certain Jewish believers who followed the Law] took issue with him [for violating Jewish customs],

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalDisputes

And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in NTNot FindingSeeking But Not Finding People

And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Barjesus:

Verse ConceptsExamples Of FaithDivination, Practiced ByTravelFalse Teachers, Examples OfFalse Apostles, Prophets And TeachersSorcery

And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfHeart, DivineSpiritualityThe Witness Of GodDoing God's WillDeposingSaul And DavidReflecting God's Heart

And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

Verse ConceptsChrist Was Killed

they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian towns called Lystra and Derbe, and to the surrounding countryside.

Now at Lystra a man sat who was unable to use his feet, for he was crippled from birth and had never walked.

Verse ConceptsCripplesdisabilitiesLamenessThe Healed WalkingFrom The Womb

He also came to Derbe and to Lystra. At Lystra he found a disciple, Timothy by name--the son of a Christian Jewess, though he had a Greek father.

Verse ConceptsBelieversGrandmothers

And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;

Verse ConceptsTurning Upside DownPulling PeopleNot FindingTroubling Groups Of PeopleCauses of failure in

But when the Jews from Thessalonica found out that God’s message had been proclaimed by Paul at Berea, they came there too, agitating and disturbing the crowds.

Verse ConceptsGospel, Responses ToPreaching, Effects OfInciting To EvilSpiritual Warfare, Causes OfUnbelief, As Response To GodIsrael Hardened

For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

Verse ConceptsAmbassadorsGod, Revelation OfIgnorance, Of GodInscriptionsOpportunities, And SalvationSuperstitionPolytheismUnknown GodsHow Not To WorshipIgnorance of GodEclipseignorancedevotion

And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, motivation forempiresCaesarCommands, in NTPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRefugeesGood Wives ExamplesAquilaRoman EmperorsGroups Sent Away

While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples

Verse ConceptsFindingRoadsflexibility

Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

Verse ConceptsMagical Arts, Practice OfCoinageSorcery And MagicOccultismSorceryWorthValuemagicwitchesartistsOccultism Being Forbidden

But when they found out that he was a Jew, they all started to shout in unison for about two hours, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"

Verse ConceptsHourRacial PrejudiceVoicesTwo Hours

There we found a ship going across to Phoenicia, so we went aboard and sailed on.

Verse ConceptsCommerceSea Travelsailing

So we found some disciples and stayed there seven days. Through the Spirit they told Paul not to go to Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsWeeksSeven DaysWarning IndividualsSpeaking By The Spirit

When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?"

Verse ConceptsempiresRevenge, And RetaliationRoman CitizensScourgingBreaking Man's LawNo CondemnationTying UpCitizens

Paul said, "But I was born a citizen." Immediately those who were about to examine him stepped back, and the tribune was afraid when he found out that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had tied him up.

Verse ConceptsChainsTying UpCitizens

I found out that the accusations were about disputed matters in their law, and that there was no charge that merited death or chains.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersAccusations, Against Early ChristiansPeople Accusing PeopleTaking The Law To Heart

For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

Verse ConceptsHeresiesPersecution, Forms OfSectsFalse Accusations, Examples OfDissension

And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:

Verse ConceptsDisputesDiscussionsDisciples In The Temple

Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.

Verse ConceptsTumultDisciples In The Temple

Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,

Verse ConceptsSanhedrinWhat Sin?

But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.

Verse ConceptsempiresDeserving Death

And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein.

Verse ConceptsAlexandria The CityShipsSea Travel

And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.

Verse ConceptsdepthDepthingNavigation

When they had been brought safely through, then we found out that the island was called Malta.

Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.

Verse Conceptsevangelism, kinds ofWeeksSeven Days

They, after they had sharply questioned me, were willing to set me at liberty, because they found no offence in me for which I deserve to die.

Verse ConceptsPeople Involved In JudgementPeople Releasing Others

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Happen (374 instances)
Incur (27 instances)
Institute (1 instance)
Launch (7 instances)
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Receive (453 instances)
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Retrieve (5 instances)
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