30 occurrences

'Grabbed' in the Bible

When Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the Lord had compassion on them. They led them away and placed them outside the city.

Verse Conceptsdelay, humanHandsHesitationSafetyUnbelief, As Response To GodGod's Mercy, Example OfOutside The CityPulling PeopleTaking By The HandPeople Who DelayedBringing People Out Of Other PlacesGod Showed Mercy

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who ruled that area, saw her, he grabbed her, forced himself on her, and sexually assaulted her.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofAdultery, Examples OfRulersRape

She grabbed him by his outer garment, saying, "Have sex with me!" But he left his outer garment in her hand and ran outside.

Verse ConceptsCloaksInvitationsGoing OutsideAbandoning ThingsGraspingSexual Union IntendedOutside The HousesexResisting Temptation

I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down, and shattered them before your very eyes.

Verse ConceptsSplitting RocksTwo Stone Tablets

then they said to him, "Say 'Shibboleth!'" If he said, "Sibboleth" (and could not pronounce the word correctly), they grabbed him and executed him right there at the fords of the Jordan. On that day forty-two thousand Ephraimites fell dead.

Verse ConceptsForty Thousand And UpFordsKilling Within Israelbridges

He happened to see a solid jawbone of a donkey. He grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.

Verse ConceptsSmall Things God UsesA Thousand PeopleNumbers Of Foreigners Killed

Samson spent half the night with the prostitute; then he got up in the middle of the night and left. He grabbed the doors of the city gate, as well as the two posts, and pulled them right off, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and carried them up to the top of a hill east of Hebron.

Verse ConceptsStrength, SpiritualMidnightLocks And BarsCarrying Other Loads

The men refused to listen to him, so the Levite grabbed his concubine and made her go outside. They raped her and abused her all night long until morning. They let her go at dawn.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofActing All Night

When he got home, he took a knife, grabbed his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel.

Verse ConceptsKnifesPeople Cut In PiecesTwelve Thingsmistresscutting

I grabbed hold of my concubine and carved her up and sent the pieces throughout the territory occupied by Israel, because they committed such an unthinkable atrocity in Israel.

Verse ConceptsLewdnessPeople Cut In Piecesmistresscutting

When Samuel turned to leave, Saul grabbed the edge of his robe and it tore.

Verse ConceptsClothing

David ran and stood over the Philistine. He grabbed Goliath's sword, drew it from its sheath, killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they ran away.

Verse ConceptsSwordsDisfigurementChampionsBeheadingIndividuals RunningSkullsPeoples Who Fledheroes

David then grabbed his own clothes and tore them, as did all the men who were with him.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Tore Clothes

When they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and grabbed hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, PurposeRashnessThreshing FloorSacrilegeAnimals FallingTouching Holy Things

As she brought them to him to eat, he grabbed her and said to her, "Come on! Get in bed with me, my sister!"

Verse ConceptsGraspingSexual Union Intended

He also killed an impressive-looking Egyptian. The Egyptian wielded a spear, while Benaiah attacked him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationSpears

Adonijah feared Solomon, so he got up and went and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar.

When the news reached Joab (for Joab had supported Adonijah, although he had not supported Absalom), he ran to the tent of the Lord and grabbed hold of the horns of the altar.

Verse ConceptsHornsConspiracy

While Elisha was watching, he was crying out, "My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!" Then he could no longer see him. He grabbed his clothes and tore them in two.

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfDuplicating WordsSpiritual FathersHeavenly ChariotsThose Who Tore ClothesStruggles In Relationship

But when she reached the prophet on the mountain, she grabbed hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the prophet said, "Leave her alone, for she is very upset. The Lord has kept the matter hidden from me; he didn't tell me about it."

Verse ConceptsGraspingLeave Them AloneGod's Things ConcealedMan Of God

He said, "Lift it out." So he reached out his hand and grabbed it.

Verse ConceptsStretching Out

He even killed an Egyptian who was seven and a half feet tall. The Egyptian had a spear as big as the crossbeam of a weaver's loom; Benaiah attacked him with a club. He grabbed the spear out of the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear.

Verse ConceptsBeamsCraftsmenSpearsWeights And Measures, LinearGiants

So she grabbed him and kissed him, and with a bold expression she said to him,

Verse ConceptsEvil KissingKissing

Jeremiah had just barely finished saying all the Lord had commanded him to say to all the people. All at once some of the priests, the prophets, and the people grabbed him and shouted, "You deserve to die!

Verse ConceptsFalse Accusations, Examples OfPersecution, Nature OfLast WordsWicked ProphetsKilling Will Happen

(Yod) An enemy grabbed all her valuables. Indeed she watched in horror as Gentiles invaded her holy temple -- those whom you had commanded: "They must not enter your assembly place."

Verse ConceptsPagansDesecrationEntering The TempleForeigners In The Holy PlacesTaking Possession

He stretched out the form of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue which provokes to jealousy was located.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfAstral ProjectionGod's HandGateways Of The TempleFacing NorthGod Lifting PeopleVisions From GodGod Opposes IdolatryOther References To HairCourts Of The TempleInner BeautyHairdreadlocks

After he went out, that same slave found one of his fellow slaves who owed him one hundred silver coins. So he grabbed him by the throat and started to choke him, saying, 'Pay back what you owe me!'

Verse ConceptsFraudUnmercifulnessExtortion, Examples OfDenariusExtortionGraspingSettling AccountsDebtServant Leadership

But one of those with Jesus grabbed his sword, drew it out, and struck the high priest's slave, cutting off his ear.

Verse ConceptsSevering Body Partscutting

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