'Looking' in the Bible

In the early evening Isaac went out to walk in the field, and looking up he saw camels coming.

A man found him there, wandering in the field, and asked him, “What are you looking for?”

“I’m looking for my brothers,” Joseph said. “Can you tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?”

when seven healthy-looking, well-fed cows came up from the Nile and began to graze among the reeds.

when seven well-fed, healthy-looking cows came up from the Nile and began to graze among the reeds.

When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you keep looking at each other?

Looking all around and seeing no one, he struck the Egyptian dead and hid him in the sand.

They had wings spread out. They faced each other and covered the mercy seat with their wings. The faces of the cherubim were looking toward the mercy seat.

or without looking drops a stone that could kill a person and he dies, but he was not his enemy and wasn’t trying to harm him,

If your brother does not live near you or you don’t know him, you are to bring the animal to your home to remain with you until your brother comes looking for it; then you can return it to him.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.

When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come and I will show you the man you are looking for.” So he went in with her, and there was Sisera lying dead with a tent peg through his temple!

In those days, there was no king in Israel, and the Danite tribe was looking for territory to occupy. Up to that time no territory had been captured by them among the tribes of Israel.

Today when you leave me, you’ll find two men at Rachel’s Grave at Zelzah in the land of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you went looking for have been found, and now your father has stopped being concerned about the donkeys and is worried about you, asking: What should I do about my son?’

He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Hosts, but the Israelites have abandoned Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are looking for me to take my life.”

“I have been very zealous for the Lord God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have abandoned Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they’re looking for me to take my life.”

Then the king of Israel called for all the elders of the land and said, “Think it over and you will see that this one is only looking for trouble, for he demanded my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold, and I didn’t turn him down.”

Now the men were looking for a sign of hope, so they quickly picked up on this and responded, “Yes, it is your brother Ben-hadad.”Then he said, “Go and bring him.”So Ben-hadad came out to him, and Ahab had him come up into the chariot.

Then Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will take you to the man you’re looking for.” And he led them to Samaria.

Mordecai was the legal guardian of his cousin Hadassah (that is, Esther), because she didn’t have a father or mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was extremely good-looking. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter.

I am weary from my crying;my throat is parched.My eyes fail, looking for my God.

Turn my eyesfrom looking at what is worthless;give me life in Your ways.

My eyes grow wearylooking for what You have promised;I ask, “When will You comfort me?”

My eyes grow weary looking for Your salvationand for Your righteous promise.

Those who linger over wine,those who go looking for mixed wine.

Y Come back, come back, Shulammite!Come back, come back, that we may look at you!M Why are you looking at the Shulammite,as you look at the dance of the two camps? >

Your neck is like a tower of ivory,your eyes like pools in Heshbonby the gate of Bath-rabbim.Your nose is like the tower of Lebanonlooking toward Damascus.

And He replied:Go! Say to these people:Keep listening, but do not understand;keep looking, but do not perceive.

They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.

I chirp like a swallow or a crane;I moan like a dove.My eyes grow weak looking upward.Lord, I am oppressed; support me.

young men without any physical defect, good-looking, suitable for instruction in all wisdom, knowledgeable, perceptive, and capable of serving in the king’s palace—and to teach them the Chaldean language and literature.

yet he said to Daniel, “My lord the king assigned your food and drink. I’m afraid of what would happen if he saw your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age. You would endanger my life with the king.”

I was left alone, looking at this great vision. No strength was left in me; my face grew deathly pale, and I was powerless.