13 occurrences

'Hands' in the Bible

Now he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will give us rest from our work and from the toil of our hands arising from the ground which the Lord has cursed.”

Verse ConceptsCurses, DivineAgriculture, Effects Of FallImperfection, Influence OfPunishment, Nature OfWork, And The FallTypes Of ChristComfort, Of FriendsGod CursingThe Fact Of ToilPeople With Apt NamesAgriculture

But the men reached out their hands and brought Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.

Verse ConceptsStretching OutShutting DoorsPulling People

But he hesitated. So the men seized his hand and the hand of his wife and the hands of his two daughters, for the compassion of the Lord was upon him; and they brought him out, and put him 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

Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.”

Verse ConceptsMisrepresentationPlea Of Innocence

And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.

Verse ConceptsHairsCovering NakednessShepherds, As OccupationsCraftinessAnimal SkinsSmoothnessSmooth

So Jacob came close to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

Verse ConceptsVoicesContact With PeopleRecognising Thingscheaters

He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so he blessed him.

Verse ConceptsHairy PeopleNot Recognising PeoplePeople Who Blessed Others

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered judgment last night.”

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersFear Of God, Examples OfGod Seeing Their AfflictionEmpty HandedGod For UsGod Sending His SonI Am SufferingThose Who ToiledGod Requite Them!

But Reuben heard this and rescued him out of their hands and said, “Let us not take his life.”

Verse ConceptsRestraints From KillingIndividuals Saving Others

Reuben further said to them, “Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but do not lay hands on him”—that he might rescue him out of their hands, to restore him to his father.

Verse ConceptsSheddingReinstating PeopleIndividuals Saving Others

Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him.

Verse ConceptsCommerceSame Bone And Flesh

But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, crossing his hands, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornHandsLaying On Of HandsFirstborn SonsHands On HeadsLeft HandsLaying On Hands To HealBlessings For The Right Hand

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