227 occurrences

'Lord' in the Bible

This man would go up from his town every year to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were the Lord’s priests.

Verse ConceptsPilgrimageSacrifice, In OtWorship, Places OfNames Of GodArk Of The Covenant, EventsEvery YearGod As A Warrior

Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the Lord had kept Hannah from conceiving.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesProvokingReasons For BarrennessTroubling IndividualsSchoolFun

Making a vow, she pleaded, “Lord of Hosts, if You will take notice of Your servant’s affliction, remember and not forget me, and give Your servant a son, I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.”

Verse ConceptsBaby dedicationExamples Of ConsecrationHairsHeadsVowsBirths ForetoldSeparated To GodGod Remembering The NeedyGod As A WarriorGod ReprovingThe Promise Of A Baby

“No, my lord,” Hannah replied. “I am a woman with a broken heart. I haven’t had any wine or beer; I’ve been pouring out my heart before the Lord.

Verse ConceptsA Broken WomanPouringPrayer, Described AsStrong DrinkDrunkennessAntidepressantsStress And Hard TimesA Broken HeartPrayer During Hard Timessoulheartbrokenwomanbeeralcoholism

The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the Lord. Afterward, they returned home to Ramah. Then Elkanah was intimate with his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her.

Verse ConceptsMorning DevotionsOne FleshRising EarlyMarital SexGod Remembering His PeopleMarital Sex BetweenThose Who Rose EarlyIndividuals going homeEarly Rising

After some time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, because she said, “I requested him from the Lord.”

Verse ConceptsAskingChildbirthPrayerfulnessConceptionPeople With Apt NamesMiraculous BirthsWaiting For God's TimingReproduction, After Kind

When Elkanah and all his household went up to make the annual sacrifice and his vow offering to the Lord,

Verse ConceptsEvery Year

Her husband Elkanah replied, “Do what you think is best, and stay here until you’ve weaned him. May the Lord confirm your word.” So Hannah stayed there and nursed her son until she weaned him.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing Mothers

“Please, my lord,” she said, “as sure as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Practicalities OfStandingThis Is Me

I now give the boy to the Lord. For as long as he lives, he is given to the Lord.” Then he bowed in worship to the Lord there.

Verse ConceptsDedicationBeing Devoted to GodGiving Backlent

Those who oppose the Lord will be shattered;He will thunder in the heavens against them.The Lord will judge the ends of the earth.He will give power to His king;He will lift up the horn of His anointed.

Verse ConceptsGod, Sovereignty OfEarth, Judgment OfThunderGod Giving StrengthGod Gives StrengthThunder Expressing God's Judgment

Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy served the Lord in the presence of Eli the priest.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals going home

So the servants’ sin was very severe in the presence of the Lord, because they treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.

Verse ConceptsAbhorGrain OfferingIrreverenceSacrilegeLeaders SinningRegulating Sacrifices

Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife: “May the Lord give you children by this woman in place of the one she has given to the Lord.” Then they would go home.

Verse ConceptsBenedictionsIndividuals going homeExchange Of IndividualsPeople Who Blessed Otherslent

The Lord paid attention to Hannah’s need, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsGrace, In OtGrowing UpThree ChildrenConceptionGod Visiting

If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him, but if a man sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to their father, since the Lord intended to kill them.

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In IsraelRebukeWicked Children, Regard To ParentsGod KillingGod Killing IndividualsGodly ManDeath Of A FatherParents Being Wrong

A man of God came to Eli and said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Didn’t I reveal Myself to your ancestral house when it was in Egypt and belonged to Pharaoh’s palace?

Verse ConceptsGod, Revelation OfAnonymityUnnamed Prophets Of The LordMan Of GodRelationships And Dating

“Therefore, this is the declaration of the Lord, the God of Israel:‘Although I saidyour family and your ancestral housewould walk before Me forever,the Lord now says, “No longer!”I will honor those who honor Me,but those who despise Me will be disgraced.

Verse ConceptsHonorWorthinessDisobedience, To GodHonouring GodMan's Eternal Attributeshonour

The boy Samuel served the Lord in Eli’s presence. In those days the word of the Lord was rare and prophetic visions were not widespread.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Famine,Speech, DivineVisionsWord Of GodDecadenceNo VisionsReceiving God's Wordministering

Before the lamp of God had gone out, Samuel was lying down in the tabernacle of the Lord, where the ark of God was located.

Verse ConceptsLampsArk Of The Covenant, Names ForThe Ark In The TempleLying Down To RestThe Temple At Shiloh

Then the Lord called Samuel, and he answered, “Here I am.”

Verse ConceptsNightBehold Me!God's Call

Once again the Lord called, “Samuel!”Samuel got up, went to Eli, and said, “Here I am; you called me.”“I didn’t call, my son,” he replied. “Go back and lie down.”

Verse ConceptsCalling, Of IndividualsLying Down To RestBehold Me!Others Summoning

Now Samuel had not yet experienced the Lord, because the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.

Verse ConceptsKnowing God, Nature OfGod's Things Concealedpremonitions

Once again, for the third time, the Lord called Samuel. He got up, went to Eli, and said, “Here I am; you called me.”Then Eli understood that the Lord was calling the boy.

Verse ConceptsSensitivityCommunicating Three TimesBehold Me!Others SummoningGod's Call

He told Samuel, “Go and lie down. If He calls you, say, ‘Speak, Lord, for Your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

Verse ConceptsLying Down To RestPaying Attention To God

The Lord came, stood there, and called as before, “Samuel, Samuel!”Samuel responded, “Speak, for Your servant is listening.”

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfListeningMinistry, Qualifications ForPrayer, As A Response To GodDuplicating WordsPaying Attention To Godvocation

The Lord said to Samuel, “I am about to do something in Israel that everyone who hears about it will shudder.

Verse ConceptsGroups TremblingTwo Of Body Parts

So Samuel told him everything and did not hide anything from him. Eli responded, “He is the Lord. He will do what He thinks is good.”

Verse ConceptsAfflicted Saints, Examples OfAfflicted SaintsResignationTelling Of God

All Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was a confirmed prophet of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsNamed Prophets Of The Lord

The Lord continued to appear in Shiloh, because there He revealed Himself to Samuel by His word. >

Verse ConceptsAppearances Of God In OtGod Appearing

When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why did the Lord let us be defeated today by the Philistines? Let’s bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant from Shiloh. Then it will go with us and save us from the hand of our enemies.”

Verse ConceptsWhy Does God Do This?

So the people sent men to Shiloh to bring back the ark of the covenant of the Lord of Hosts, who dwells between the cherubim. Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

Verse ConceptsJudgment SeatCherubim, At God's ThroneGod Sitting In GloryGod As A WarriorCherubim Depicted

When the ark of the covenant of the Lord entered the camp, all the Israelites raised such a loud shout that the ground shook.

The Philistines heard the sound of the war cry and asked, “What’s this loud shout in the Hebrews’ camp?” When the Philistines discovered that the ark of the Lord had entered the camp,

Verse ConceptsShoutingMeaningImmigrants

When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.

Verse ConceptsProstrationRestoring ThingsThose Who Rose EarlyThings Falling

But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. This time, both Dagon’s head and the palms of his hands were broken off and lying on the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso remained.

Verse ConceptsBodyHeadsMorningRising EarlyBeheadingCutting Off Hands And FeetThose Who Rose EarlyThings Fallingstatues

The Lord’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, terrorizing and afflicting the people of Ashdod and its territory with tumors.

Verse ConceptsDiseases, Kinds OfAnger Of God, Examples OfSwellingcancer

When the ark of the Lord had been in the land of the Philistines for seven months,

Verse ConceptsFive Months And More

the Philistines summoned the priests and the diviners and pleaded, “What should we do with the ark of the Lord? Tell us how we can send it back to its place.”

Take the ark of the Lord, place it on the cart, and put the gold objects that you’re sending Him as a restitution offering in a box beside the ark. Send it off and let it go its way.

Verse ConceptsCartsGoldAnimal Sacrifices, Trespass Offering

Then watch: If it goes up the road to its homeland toward Beth-shemesh, it is the Lord who has made this terrible trouble for us. However, if it doesn’t, we will know that it was not His hand that punished us—it was just something that happened to us by chance.”

Verse ConceptsChanceDistinguishingNatural Disasters

Then they put the ark of the Lord on the cart, along with the box containing the gold mice and the images of their tumors.

Verse ConceptsMice

The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there near a large rock. The people of the city chopped up the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsWoodCartsSplitting WoodFirewood

The Levites removed the ark of the Lord, along with the box containing the gold objects, and placed them on the large rock. That day the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsLevitesSacrifice, In Ot

As a restitution offering to the Lord, the Philistines had sent back one gold tumor for each city: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.

Verse ConceptsRestitution

The number of gold mice also corresponded to the number of Philistine cities of the five rulers, the fortified cities and the outlying villages. The large rock on which the ark of the Lord was placed is in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh to this day.

Verse ConceptsVillagesMiceFive PeopleFive ThingsPlaces To This Day

God struck down the men of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the Lord. He struck down 70 men out of 50,000 men. The people mourned because the Lord struck them with a great slaughter.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, FunctionArk Of The Covenant, PurposeDeath penaltyAnger Of God, Examples OfCarnageSacrilegeFifty To Ninety ThousandThe Ark Moved AroundGod KillingGod Killed His PeopleAnointing OilArk Of The Covenant

The men of Beth-shemesh asked, “Who is able to stand in the presence of this holy Lord God? Who should the ark go to from here?”

Verse ConceptsSelf JustificationSelf Righteousness, And The GospelAble To Stand

They sent messengers to the residents of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down and get it.”

So the men of Kiriath-jearim came for the ark of the Lord and took it to Abinadab’s house on the hill. They consecrated his son Eleazar to take care of it.

Verse ConceptsHoliness, As Set Apart For GodArk Of The Covenant, EventsThe Ark Moved Around

Time went by until 20 years had passed since the ark had been taken to Kiriath-jearim. Then the whole house of Israel began to seek the Lord.

Verse Concepts20 To 30 YearsStaying A Long Time

Samuel told them, “If you are returning to the Lord with all your heart, get rid of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths that are among you, dedicate yourselves to the Lord, and worship only Him. Then He will rescue you from the hand of the Philistines.”

Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofCommitment, to Goddouble mindednessReformationSyncretismDivided HeartsUnquestioning ServiceReturning To GodWhole HeartednessIndividuals Saving OthersPutting Away Other GodsServing Asherah

So the Israelites removed the Baals and the Ashtoreths and only worshiped the Lord.

Verse ConceptsBaal Worship, HistoryGod Alone

Samuel said, “Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord on your behalf.”

Verse ConceptsAssemblyReligious AwakeningsPray For UsFasting And Prayer

When they gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out in the Lord’s presence. They fasted that day, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Practice OfAssemblyRepentance, Examples OfShrinesFasting, Accompanied ByReligious AwakeningsDrawing WaterPouring WaterJudging IsraelWe Have Sinned

The Israelites said to Samuel, “Don’t stop crying out to the Lord our God for us, so that He will save us from the hand of the Philistines.”

Verse ConceptsRescueUnceasingAlways PrayingIndividuals Saving OthersPray For Us

Then Samuel took a young lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. He cried out to the Lord on behalf of Israel, and the Lord answered him.

Verse ConceptsBurnt offeringLambsPrayer, Answers ToCrying To GodYoung AnimalGod AnsweredPray For Us

Samuel was offering the burnt offering as the Philistines drew near to fight against Israel. The Lord thundered loudly against the Philistines that day and threw them into such confusion that they fled before Israel.

Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfdefeatThunderAnger Of God, Examples OfGod OvercomingThunder Expressing God's Judgment

Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it upright between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, explaining, “The Lord has helped us to this point.”

Verse ConceptsCeremoniesStonesMonumentsGod Helpshelphelping

Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, he judged Israel there, and he built an altar to the Lord there.

Verse ConceptsHomeAltars, Built ByAltars To The LordBuilding Altars

When they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” Samuel considered their demand sinful, so he prayed to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsPeople Involved In JudgementNot Pleasing PeopleNamed Individuals Who Prayed

But the Lord told him, “Listen to the people and everything they say to you. They have not rejected you; they have rejected Me as their king.

Verse ConceptsAttitudes Of RejectionGovernmentKnowing God, Effects OfRejection Of GodTheocracyRebellion Against God, Shown InPay Attention To People!RejectionListening To God

When that day comes, you will cry out because of the king you’ve chosen for yourselves, but the Lord won’t answer you on that day.”

Verse ConceptsGod Not Answering

Samuel listened to all the people’s words and then repeated them to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsGod Hearing

“Listen to them,” the Lord told Samuel. “Appoint a king for them.”Then Samuel told the men of Israel, “Each of you, go back to your city.”

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To People!

Now the day before Saul’s arrival, the Lord had informed Samuel,

Verse ConceptsThings Revealed

When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord told him, “Here is the man I told you about; he will rule over My people.”

Verse ConceptsCivil authoritiesChoices

Samuel took the flask of oil, poured it out on Saul’s head, kissed him, and said, “Hasn’t the Lord anointed you ruler over His inheritance?

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingAnointing, Performed OnKingsKingship, HumanKissingLeaders, PoliticalOilRankKissesOlive OilThe Act Of AnointingAnointing KingsAnointing Oil

The Spirit of the Lord will control you, you will prophesy with them, and you will be transformed into a different person.

Verse ConceptsPower, HumanPromises Of The Holy SpiritPeople TransformedBeing DifferentBeing Unique

Samuel summoned the people to the Lord at Mizpah

Verse ConceptsCongregationAssembling Israel

and said to the Israelites, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the power of the Egyptians and all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toKingdomsGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptSpecial Revelation

But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions. You said to Him, ‘You must set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and clans.”

Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodTheocracyNatural Disasters

They again inquired of the Lord, “Has the man come here yet?”The Lord replied, “There he is, hidden among the supplies.”

Verse Conceptsenquiring of GodHiding From PeopleBaggage

Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one the Lord has chosen? There is no one like him among the entire population.”And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”

Verse ConceptsVoicesGroups ShoutingUnique Individuals

Samuel proclaimed to the people the rights of kingship. He wrote them on a scroll, which he placed in the presence of the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each to his home.

Verse ConceptsExplanationsBooksBook of the Law

He took a team of oxen, cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout the land of Israel by messengers who said, “This is what will be done to the ox of anyone who doesn’t march behind Saul and Samuel.” As a result, the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they went out united.

Verse ConceptsGesturesHeraldKnivesAnimals Cut In PiecesUnified PeopleTerror Of God

But Saul ordered, “No one will be executed this day, for today the Lord has provided deliverance in Israel.”

Verse ConceptsMercy, Examples OfRescueAmnesty

Here I am. Bring charges against me before the Lord and His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged or mistreated? From whose hand have I taken a bribe to overlook something? I will return it to you.”

Verse ConceptsBlindness, SymbolicStandingOwning LivestockAvoiding BribesBlindingLoss Of DonkeysOther Blinding

He said to them, “The Lord is a witness against you, and His anointed is a witness today that you haven’t found anything in my hand.”“He is a witness,” they said.

Verse ConceptsAppealing To GodThe Witness Of God

Then Samuel said to the people, “The Lord, who appointed Moses and Aaron and who brought your ancestors up from the land of Egypt, is a witness.

Verse ConceptsAaron, As High PriestPast, TheGod Appointing OthersGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Now present yourselves, so I may confront you before the Lord about all the righteous acts He has done for you and your ancestors.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationGod, Righteousness OfStillnessGod Doing RightDoing Right

“When Jacob went to Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the Lord, and He sent them Moses and Aaron, who led your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Answers ToPrayer, As Asking GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

But they forgot the Lord their God, so He handed them over to Sisera commander of the army of Hazor, to the Philistines, and to the king of Moab. These enemies fought against them.

Verse ConceptsForgetting

Then they cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned, for we abandoned the Lord and worshiped the Baals and the Ashtoreths. Now deliver us from the power of our enemies, and we will serve You.’

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsForsaking God, Illustrated ByBaal Worship, HistoryServing AsherahWe Have Sinned

So the Lord sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel. He rescued you from the power of the enemies around you, and you lived securely.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and Judahenemies, of believersGod Saving From Enemies

But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was coming against you, you said to me, ‘No, we must have a king rule over us’—even though the Lord your God is your king.

Verse ConceptsGovernmentKingsKingdom Of God, Coming OfKingship, DivineKingship, HumanTheocracy

“Now here is the king you’ve chosen, the one you requested. Look, this is the king the Lord has placed over you.

If you fear the Lord, worship and obey Him, and if you don’t rebel against the Lord’s command, then both you and the king who rules over you will follow the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodReverence To GodFollowing GodFear God!Obeying God

However, if you disobey the Lord and rebel against His command, the Lord’s hand will be against you and against your ancestors.

Verse ConceptsThreatsDisobedience, To GodGod Opposing

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אדן אדון 
'adown 
Usage: 335

אדני 
'Adonay 
Lord , lord , God
Usage: 438

מרא 
Mare' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 4

κύριος 
Kurios 
Lord , lord , master , sir , Sir ,
Usage: 643

אדּיר 
'addiyr 
Usage: 27

אזן 
'ozen 
Usage: 187

בּעלי בּמות 
Ba`aley Bamowth 
lords of the high places
Usage: 0

גּביר 
G@biyr 
Usage: 2

חללה חלילה 
Chaliylah 
God forbid , far be it , be...far , Lord forbid ,
Usage: 20

יהּ 
Yahh 
LORD , JAH
Usage: 49

יהוה 
Y@hovih 
GOD , LORD
Usage: 302

סרן 
Ceren 
Usage: 22

רב 
Rab (Aramaic) 
Usage: 15

רברבן 
Rabr@ban (Aramaic) 
Usage: 8

רוּד 
Ruwd 
Usage: 4

שׁלשׁ שׁלושׁ שׁלישׁo 
Shaliysh 
Usage: 20

שׂר 
Sar 
Usage: 421

δεσπότης 
Despotes 
Usage: 10

κατακυριεύω 
Katakurieuo 
Usage: 2

κυριακός 
Kuriakos 
Usage: 2

κυριεύω 
Kurieuo 
Usage: 6

μεγιστᾶνες 
megistanes 
Usage: 2

ῥαββονί ῥαββουνί 
Rhabboni 
Usage: 2

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