41 occurrences

'Howbeit' in the Bible

Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsExamples Of EscapingNomadsNamed WivesTime Of Peace

Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

Verse ConceptsReinstatementLong HairHair GrowingGrowingHair

And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.

Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

Verse ConceptsCursing The Ungodly

And now it is true that I am thy near kinsman: howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.

Verse ConceptsAffirmationsWidows

Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

Verse ConceptsExplanationsNature Of KingsPay Attention To People!

Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

Verse ConceptsBackSpearsStomachsPiercingsMotionlessnessComing To RestStriking To Death

Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

Verse ConceptsdisgraceReproachHow Sin Comes With AfflictionsNearness Of DeathBlasphemyDeath Will Soon HappenEnemies Of God

Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofRape

And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.

Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.

Verse ConceptsThree MenPraising Specific People

And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD.

Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.

Verse ConceptsFractions, One HalfNot Believing PeopleHalf Of ThingsWealthy PeopleWealth And Prosperity

Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.

Verse ConceptsFor The Sake Of God's People

Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit let me go in any wise.

Verse ConceptsPlenty In Egypt

Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:

Verse ConceptsRulers

And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.

Verse ConceptsSlingsFelling TreesCities Under AttackThrowing StonesPeople Drying Things UpHarming Treescrusades

And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the LORD hath shewed me that he shall surely die.

Verse ConceptsFutureKnowing God, Nature OfNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenRecoverypotential

Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.

Verse ConceptsGolden Calves

Howbeit there were not made for the house of the LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD:

Verse ConceptsTrumpetProvision Of Temple Utensils

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.

Verse ConceptsIncense Offered Amiss

Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsSolomon's TempleGateways Of The TempleIncense Offered Amiss

Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

Verse ConceptsSacrificing On The High Placesgroups

Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsCollectionsMastersServants, GoodTrustworthinessFinancesMoney Blessingsactingaccounting

Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.

Verse ConceptsThree Men

Howbeit the LORD God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:

Verse ConceptsDavid, Early Lifeelection, responsibilities of

Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfFractions, One HalfHalf Of ThingsSix Hundred And Above

And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even: and about the time of the sun going down he died.

Howbeit the high places were not taken away: for as yet the people had not prepared their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

Verse ConceptsComplacencyHalf Heartedness

Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, God's with DavidGrieving GodGod Unwilling

Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

Verse ConceptsRegretTombsAbsence Of Regret

And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year, and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.

Verse ConceptsCollectionsCareNeglectHaste

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.

Verse ConceptsImitating Good KingsEntering The Temple

Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

Verse ConceptsenvoyProving, Through TestingRulersTesting

Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

Verse ConceptsAfflicted Saints

Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Verse ConceptsHiringBlessing And CurseCursing Israel

Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

Verse ConceptsBrokennessDisastersCrying For Help

Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

Verse ConceptsMan's PurposesPeople Destroying Foreign Nationsflexibility

Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

Verse ConceptsProphets, Role OfAbominations, Sin IsThose Who Rose EarlyDoing Repeatedly

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Howbeit (96 instances)

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
אוּלם 
'uwlam 
but , but truly , surely , very deed , howbeit , wherefore , truly , not translated
Usage: 18

אפס 
'ephec 
ends , no , none , not , nothing , without , else , beside , but , cause , howbeit , .
Usage: 43

ἀλλά 
Alla 
but , yea , yet , nevertheless , howbeit , nay , therefore , save , not tr ,
Usage: 461

μέντοι 
mentoi 
yet , nevertheless , howbeit , but , not tr
Usage: 5

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