14 occurrences in 13 translations

'Hole' in the Bible

Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock.

Verse ConceptsCavesFear, Of NaturalEscaping To MountainsPeople In CavesSetting OutTwo WomenCaves As Places Of Refuge

But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.

Verse ConceptsServants, BadWellsDishonesty, Examples Of

And he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness that I have made this water-hole.

Verse ConceptsAnimals, Types OfExcavationThings As Witnesses

Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah.

Verse ConceptsExcavationPeople OpposedPeople Naming Things

Then he went away from there, and made another water-hole, about which there was no fighting: so he gave it the name of Rehoboth, for he said, Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will have fruit in this land.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialExcavationPotential Of FruitSpacious PlacePeople Naming ThingsFreedomMoving To A New Placespacefruitfulnessland

Then he made an altar there, and gave worship to the name of the Lord, and he put up his tents there, and there his servants made a water-hole.

Verse ConceptsAltarsCalling upon GodNomadsTentsAltars, Built ByBuilding AltarsExcavation

And that day Isaac's servants came to him and gave him word of the water-hole which they had made, and said to him, We have come to water.

Verse ConceptsFinding ThingsTelling What People Did

And there he saw a water-hole in a field, and by the side of it three flocks of sheep, for there they got water for the sheep: and on the mouth of the water-hole there was a great stone.

Verse ConceptsThree GroupsBig ThingsStopping Wells

And all the flocks would come together there, and when the stone had been rolled away, they would give the sheep water, and put the stone back again in its place on the mouth of the water-hole.

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As OccupationsGathering CreaturesThe Act Of OpeningOpening PitsStopping WellsRolling

And they said, We are not able to do so till all the flocks have come together and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the water-hole; then we will get water for the sheep.

Verse ConceptsGathering CreaturesRollingUnable To Do Other Things

Then when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, coming with Laban's sheep, he came near, and rolling the stone away from the mouth of the hole, he got water for Laban's flock.

Verse ConceptsRollingPossessing Sheep

And they took him and put him in the hole: now the hole had no water in it.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersEmpty ThingsDry Places

And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt.

Verse ConceptsMerchantsSilverTradeCommercePrice Set On IndividualsTrade With Metals

Now when Reuben came back to the hole, Joseph was not there; and giving signs of grief,

Verse ConceptsClothingClothing, Tearing OfTearing Of ClothesThose Who Tore ClothesNowhere To Be Found

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