48 occurrences

'Men' in the Bible

The Nephilim were on the earth in those days (and also after this) when the sons of God were having sexual relations with the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men.

Verse ConceptsGiantsAntediluviansBefore The FloodWarriorsMarital SexAngels As Sons Of GodMarital Sex BetweenAngels Interacting With PeoplePeople Have HonourInterracial MarriageSame Sex Marriageheroes

Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTThe King's Orders

When Abram heard that his nephew had been taken captive, he mobilized his 318 trained men who had been born in his household, and he pursued the invaders as far as Dan.

Verse ConceptsSkillViolenceWarfare, Strategies InAbraham, Testing And VictoryBodyguardsThree To Four HundredThree Hundred And AboveBorn In One's HouseOvercoming Adversitytraining

I will take nothing except compensation for what the young men have eaten. As for the share of the men who went with me -- Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre -- let them take their share."

Verse ConceptsFood PermittedSharing Material Things

All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

Verse ConceptsGroups Of Slaves

Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordBowingSalutationsThree MenIndividuals RunningTrinity

When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom. (Now Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And VictoryGoing TogetherSetting Out

The two men turned and headed toward Sodom, but Abraham was still standing before the Lord.

Before they could lie down to sleep, all the men -- both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom -- surrounded the house.

Verse ConceptsEnemies Surrounding

They shouted to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!"

Verse ConceptsSelf IndulgenceVulgarityHomosexualitySexual Union IntendedWhere Are People?sex

Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. Only don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."

Verse ConceptsdaughtersRooftopVirginTwo WomenLeaving People AloneNever Giving UpFather And Daughter RelationshipsProtecting Your FamilyFathers And Daughters

So the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house as they shut the door.

Verse ConceptsStretching OutShutting DoorsPulling People

Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, with blindness. The men outside wore themselves out trying to find the door.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGod BlindingNot Finding

When Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the Lord had compassion on them. They led them away and placed them outside the city.

Verse Conceptsdelay, humanHandsHesitationSafetyUnbelief, As Response To GodGod's Mercy, Example OfOutside The CityPulling PeopleTaking By The HandPeople Who DelayedBringing People Out Of Other PlacesGod Showed Mercy

So Abraham's servant went to the house and unloaded the camels. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet.

Verse ConceptsBathing, For CleansingGuestsMangersStrawWaterFeet WashingThings StrippedEntering HousesFeeding AnimalsMan Providing WaterClean FeetCare Of Feet

After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. When they got up in the morning, he said, "Let me leave now so I can return to my master."

Verse ConceptsLeisure, And PastimesEating And DrinkingPeople Sending People

So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham's servant and his men.

Verse ConceptsBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningMarriage, The BrideNamed SistersPeople Sending People

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, "She is my sister." He was afraid to say, "She is my wife," for he thought to himself, "The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful."

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitdoubtersAsking Particular QuestionsMisrepresentationOther WivesBeautiful Women

Then Abimelech exclaimed, "What in the world have you done to us? One of the men might easily have had sexual relations with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?

Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms.

Verse ConceptsSealing A CovenantRising EarlyThose Who Rose EarlyGoing In Peace

The messengers returned to Jacob and said, "We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him."

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutFour To Five HundredMeeting PeopleFour And Five Hundred

"No longer will your name be Jacob," the man told him, "but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed."

Verse ConceptsTypes Of ChristChanged NamesGod Naming PeopleGod Renaming PeopleHuman Nature, OvercomingStruggles

Jacob looked up and saw that Esau was coming along with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants.

Verse ConceptsFour To Five HundredFour And Five HundredSeeing PeopleFamily Conflict

So Esau said, "Let me leave some of my men with you." "Why do that?" Jacob replied. "My lord has already been kind enough to me."

Verse ConceptsGoing Together

So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city,

Verse ConceptsBusiness At The Gateway

"These men are at peace with us. So let them live in the land and travel freely in it, for the land is wide enough for them. We will take their daughters for wives, and we will give them our daughters to marry.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Stewardship OfLiving In The LandMen Of Peace

Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.

Verse ConceptsUnified PeopleBecoming Like PeopleConsentLiving In The LandNecessity Of Circumcision

All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Making AgreementsBusiness At The GatewayConsent

He asked the men who were there, "Where is the cult prostitute who was at Enaim by the road?" But they replied, "There has been no cult prostitute here."

Verse ConceptsWhere Are People?whores

So he returned to Judah and said, "I couldn't find her. Moreover, the men of the place said, 'There has been no cult prostitute here.'"

Verse ConceptsNowhere To Be Found

In the morning he was troubled, so he called for all the diviner-priests of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.

Verse ConceptsDivination, Practiced ByMorningRestlessnessWisdom, Human NatureMagiciansWise MenKings SummoningNo One AvailableTelling Dreams

We are all the sons of one man; we are honest men! Your servants are not spies."

Verse ConceptsSpyingvulnerability

If you are honest men, leave one of your brothers confined here in prison while the rest of you go and take grain back for your hungry families.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPeople Providing Food

But we said to him, 'We are honest men; we are not spies!

Verse ConceptsSpying

"Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'This is how I will find out if you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for your hungry households and go.

Verse ConceptsPeople Abandoning People

But bring your youngest brother back to me so I will know that you are honest men and not spies. Then I will give your brother back to you and you may move about freely in the land.'"

Verse ConceptsTradeThe Youngest ChildSpyingReinstating People

So the men took these gifts, and they took double the money with them, along with Benjamin. Then they hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.

Verse ConceptsDouble MoneyIndeterminate Sums Of Money

When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the servant who was over his household, "Bring the men to the house. Slaughter an animal and prepare it, for the men will eat with me at noon."

Verse ConceptsHourMealsNoonStewardshipDinnerKilling Domesticated AnimalsSeeing People

The man did just as Joseph said; he brought the men into Joseph's house.

But the men were afraid when they were brought to Joseph's house. They said, "We are being brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks last time. He wants to capture us, make us slaves, and take our donkeys!"

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyLoss Of DonkeysWhy People Did ThingsFear Of Individuals

The servant in charge brought the men into Joseph's house. He gave them water, and they washed their feet. Then he gave food to their donkeys.

Verse ConceptsAblutionGuestsWaterFeet WashingFeeding AnimalsClean Feet

They sat before him, arranged by order of birth, beginning with the firstborn and ending with the youngest. The men looked at each other in astonishment.

Verse ConceptsBanquets, CharaceristicsFirstbornBrothersBirthrights

He instructed the servant who was over his household, "Fill the sacks of the men with as much food as they can carry and put each man's money in the mouth of his sack.

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of Money

When morning came, the men and their donkeys were sent off.

Verse ConceptsDaybreakAt Daybreak

They had not gone very far from the city when Joseph said to the servant who was over his household, "Pursue the men at once! When you overtake them, say to them, 'Why have you repaid good with evil?

Verse ConceptsIngratitudePeople Not Far AwayRepaying Evil For Good

The men are shepherds; they take care of livestock. They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.'

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As Occupations

The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best region of the land. They may live in the land of Goshen. If you know of any highly capable men among them, put them in charge of my livestock."

Verse ConceptsAbilityCompetence

O my soul, do not come into their council, do not be united to their assembly, my heart, for in their anger they have killed men, and for pleasure they have hamstrung oxen.

Verse ConceptsIrritationParticipation, In SinAnger Of Man, CauseSelf WillEvil AssociationsObstinate IndividualsReady To KillSports

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Definition
Usage
גּבּר גּבּור 
Gibbowr 
Usage: 159

אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

אחר 
'acher 
Usage: 166

אישׁ 
'iysh 
man , men , one , husband , any ,
Usage: 692

אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 1

אציל 
'atsiyl 
Usage: 2

אראל אריאל 
'ariy'el 
Usage: 2

בּחר 
Bachar 
Usage: 169

בּחרים בּחוּרות בּחרות 
B@churowth 
Usage: 3

בּליּעל 
B@liya`al 
Usage: 27

גּדוּד 
G@duwd 
Usage: 33

דּוה 
Daveh 
Usage: 5

המּון המּו 
himmow 
them , set , are , those , men
Usage: 9

זכוּר 
Zakuwr 
Usage: 4

זכר 
Zakar 
Usage: 231

חכם 
Chakam 
Usage: 137

חלל 
Chalal 
Usage: 142

חלץ 
Chalats 
Usage: 44

חמשׁ 
Chamush 
Usage: 4

ים 
Yam 
Usage: 396

ישׁישׁ 
Yashiysh 
Usage: 4

כּבּיר 
Kabbiyr 
Usage: 10

מנא 
mene' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 3

מנחם 
M@nachem 
Usage: 8

מת 
Math 
men , few , few , friends , number , persons , small , with
Usage: 21

מתם 
M@thom 
Usage: 4

נשׁק 
Nashaq 
Usage: 35

עוּר 
`ivver 
Usage: 26

עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

רק ריק 
Reyq 
Usage: 14

שׁבעה שׁבע 
Sheba` 
Usage: 395

שׁוּר שׁירo 
Shiyr 
Usage: 86

שׁמוּעה 
Sh@muw`ah 
Usage: 27

ἀλλότριος 
Allotrios 
Usage: 10

ἀνδρίζομαι 
Andrizomai 
Usage: 1

ἀνθρωπάρεσκος 
Anthropareskos 
Usage: 2

ἀσεβής 
Asebes 
Usage: 9

καταρτίζω 
Katartizo 
Usage: 11

Μαΐνάν 
Mainan 
Usage: 1

μεγιστᾶνες 
megistanes 
Usage: 2

μνεία 
Mneia 
Usage: 7

μνημονεύω 
Mnemoneuo 
Usage: 13

πᾶς 
Pas 
all , all things , every , all men , whosoever , everyone , whole , all manner of , every man , no Trans , every thing , any , whatsoever , whosoever 9 , always , daily , any thing , no , not tr ,
Usage: 704

τούτους 
Toutous 
Usage: 21

φιλάγαθος 
Philagathos 
Usage: 1

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