24 occurrences in 11 translations

'Lap' in the Bible

The overlapping part that is left over in the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that is left over, shall lap over the back of the tabernacle.

Verse ConceptsLengthSurplusResidueHalf Of ThingsBack Of Things

The cubit on one side and the cubit on the other, of what is left over in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall lap over the sides of the tabernacle on one side and on the other, to cover it.

Verse ConceptsCovering The TabernacleSurplus

Did I conceive all these people? If I have fathered them, that you could say to me, 'Carry them in your lap, just as a foster-father carries the suckling on the land that you swore an oath to their ancestors?'

Verse ConceptsArmsGod, Feminine Descriptions OfNursesThe Promise Of A Baby

So he brought the men down to the water. Then the Lord said to Gideon, "Separate those who lap the water as a dog laps from those who kneel to drink."

Verse ConceptsdogsTonguegroupsarmygideon

Then she let him fall asleep on her lap and called a man to shave off the seven braids on his head. In this way, she made him helpless, and his strength left him.

Verse ConceptsContentious WomanBarbersBaldnessKneelingShavingTreacheryKneesSeven Body PartsLong HairNo Strength LeftHairvulnerabilitydreadlocks

Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and took care of him.

Verse ConceptsAdoption

but the poor [man] had nothing except for one small ewe lamb which he had bought. He had nurtured her, and she grew up with him and with his children together. She used to eat from his morsel and drink from his cup, and she used to lie in his lap and became like a daughter for him.

Verse ConceptsCups, Literal UseNoting What Animals EatPossessing SheepPets

I gave you the household of your master and the women of your master into your lap. I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah; if [that had been too] little, I would have added to you {much more}.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesTribes Of IsraelAdding BlessingGod Giving FreelyTransferring Wives

His servants said to him, "Let them search for a young virgin for my lord the king, and let her stand before the king. Let her be of use for him, and let her lie in your lap that my lord the king may be warm."

Verse ConceptsLying Down To RestWarmingThose Looking For Peopleteenager

So she got up in the middle of the night, and she took my son from beside me while your servant was asleep, and she put him in her lap, and she put her dead son in my lap.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersMidnightCorpses Of Other People

"Give me your son," he replied. Then he took him from her lap, carried him upstairs to the room where he lived, and laid him on his bed.

Verse ConceptsHousesStairwaysSecret PrayerCarrying Dead BodiesUpper Rooms

And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.

Verse ConceptsUnknown ThingsHerbsWeedpot

Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.

Verse ConceptsAmenEmptyingPeople ShakingPeople Abandoning People

Why was there a lap to hold me, and why were there breasts to nurse me?

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersKneesbreasts

which cannot fill the reaper's hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!

Verse ConceptsArmsMowingNot Reaping What You Sow

Can a man carry fire in his lap, and his clothes not burn?

Verse ConceptsFire Of EvilInfidelityadultry

The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, [in order] to pervert the ways of justice.

Verse ConceptsBribery, Results OfAcceptance Of BribesSecrecyEffect Of Bribes

A gift in secret subdues anger,And a bribe [hidden] in the pocket, strong wrath.

Verse ConceptsBribery, Is SinActing In SecretEffect Of Bribeswrath

For this is what the Lord says:I will make peace flow to her like a river,and the wealth of nations like a flood;you will nurse and be carried on her hipand bounced on her lap.

Verse ConceptsAffluenceKneelingPeace, Promised ToKneesJerusalem In Millennial KingdomRiversHealing And ComfortPeace And ComfortPeace And StrengthFloodsBlessings And ProsperityWealth And Prosperitybreasts

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּגד 
Beged 
Usage: 217

דּוּכּיפת 
Duwkiyphath 
Usage: 2

חוק חק חיק 
Cheyq 
Usage: 38

חצן 
Chotsen 
Usage: 2

לפּידות 
Lappiydowth 
Usage: 1

לקק 
Laqaq 
lap , lick
Usage: 7

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