22 occurrences

'Met' in the Bible

So Esau said, “What do you mean by this whole procession I met?”“To find favor with you, my lord,” he answered.

Verse ConceptsMeaning

They will listen to what you say. Then you, along with the elders of Israel, must go to the king of Egypt and say to him: Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesThree DaysParticular JourneysA Feast In The WildernessPaying Attention To People

Now the Lord had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingKissesIsrael In The WildernessMeeting People

Then they answered, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God, or else He may strike us with plague or sword.”

Verse ConceptsSwordsThree DaysParticular JourneysA Feast In The WildernessGod Might Kill His People

God met with him and Balaam said to Him, “I have arranged seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.”

Verse ConceptsSeven AnimalsSeven ThingsMeeting GodSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

The Lord met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth. Then He said, “Return to Balak and say what I tell you.”

Verse ConceptsSpeaking The Word God Gives

They met you along the way and attacked all your stragglers from behind when you were tired and weary. They did not fear God.

Verse ConceptsReverence, And Social BehaviourTirednessNo Fear Of GodTired In PursuitEnemy Attackstired

their border went up westward to Maralah, reached Dabbesheth, and met the brook east of Jokneam.

When Saul and his attendant arrived at Gibeah, a group of prophets met him. Then the Spirit of God took control of him, and he prophesied along with them.

Verse Conceptsequipping, spiritualThe Spirit Of GodPromises Of The Holy SpiritThe Holy Spirit, Source Of WisdomSchoolgroups

Samuel did what the Lord directed and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked, “Do you come in peace?”

Verse ConceptsTownTremblingFear Of Individuals

As she rode the donkey down a mountain pass hidden from view, she saw David and his men coming toward her and met them.

Verse ConceptsRiding Donkeys

So Joab son of Zeruiah and David’s soldiers marched out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. The two groups took up positions on opposite sides of the pool.

Verse ConceptsPoolsOpposite Sides

During that time, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met Jeroboam on the road as Jeroboam came out of Jerusalem. Now Ahijah had wrapped himself with a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in the open field.

Verse ConceptsFine ClothesUnusedNamed Prophets Of The Lord

When he left, a lion attacked him along the way and killed him. His corpse was thrown on the road, and the donkey was standing beside it; the lion was standing beside the corpse too.

Verse ConceptsRoadsAnimals KillingCorpses Of Other PeopleDeath

While Obadiah was walking along the road, Elijah suddenly met him. When Obadiah recognized him, he fell with his face to the ground and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”

Verse ConceptsWalkingRecognising PeopleIs It Really?

“Harness!” Joram shouted, and they harnessed his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his own chariot, and met Jehu at the plot of land of Naboth the Jezreelite.

Verse ConceptsAttacking With ChariotsPreparing To TravelList Of Kings Of Israel

Jehu met the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?”They answered, “We’re Ahaziah’s relatives. We’ve come down to greet the king’s sons and the queen mother’s sons.”

Verse ConceptsQueensRelatives

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.

Verse ConceptsBad FriendsGood FriendsLove, For One AnotherSympathyVisitingComfort, Of FriendsCondolenceVisiting Of The SickVisitationThree MenMeeting PeopleBest FriendsLosing A FriendLosing FriendsTrue Friends

Your adversaries roared in the meeting placewhere You met with us.They set up their emblems as signs.

Verse ConceptsBanners, Literal UseGroups ShoutingFlags

They said in their hearts,“Let us oppress them relentlessly.”They burned down every place throughout the landwhere God met with us.

Verse ConceptsBurning JerusalemThose Subjected To Peoplerelentless

but from the time we ceased to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to offer her drink offerings, we have lacked everything, and through sword and famine we have met our end.”

Verse ConceptsFamine Killing

Bible Theasaurus

Adjoin (2 instances)
Assemble (88 instances)
Contact (38 instances)
Encounter (23 instances)
Fulfil (37 instances)
Fulfill (118 instances)
Gather (291 instances)
Match (10 instances)
Receive (453 instances)
Satisfy (54 instances)
Suffer (240 instances)

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