2 occurrences

'Instead' in the Bible

Her father said, “I really thought that you hated her intensely; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please let her be yours instead.”

Verse ConceptsHating IndividualsTransferring Wives

But the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house at night because of me. They intended to kill me; instead, they ravished my concubine so that she died.

Verse ConceptsLewdnessAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleDeath Of Unnamed Individuals

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תּחת 
Tachath 
instead, under, for, as, with, from, flat, in the same place
Usage: 505

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