153 occurrences

'Nothing' in the Bible

I will accept nothing from you except that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion."

Verse ConceptsFood PermittedSharing Material Things

that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."

Verse ConceptsNames And Titles For The ChristianNot TouchingGoing In PeaceBlessed By God

Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"

Verse ConceptsBeing FairNegotiationServants, Working Conditions OfWagesFree Of Charge

For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."

Verse ConceptsDungeonsKidnappingImmigrants

When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

Verse ConceptsBodyHerdsLimitations Of The BodyIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyShortage Other Than FoodThings Revealed

Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.'"

Verse ConceptsNo Reduction

Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt; and nothing shall die of all that belongs to the children of Israel."'"

Verse ConceptsPlaguesNot DyingGod Differentiating

For they covered the surface of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. There remained nothing green, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsBlackCovering The EarthDarkness During DaytimeGreenRemaining FoodAnimals EatingHarming Trees

You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

Verse ConceptsBurning SacrificesRemaining Offeringscommunion

You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.'"

When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating.

Verse ConceptsEquality In PaymentGathering MuchLittle FoodGathering FoodPlenty For The PoorSurplus

If the sun has risen on him, guilt of bloodshed shall be for him; he shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Nature Of

All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is made of the grapevine, from the seeds even to the skins.

We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

Verse ConceptsCucumbersFruitFishesVegetablesLooking BackwardPeople RememberingFree Of ChargeComplainingFish

but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at."

Verse ConceptsAppetite, PhysicalPhysical HungerLost Appetite

He spoke to the congregation, saying, "Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!"

Verse ConceptsTentsFellowship With WickedEvil AssociationsSeparation From Evil PeopleNot TouchingHaving No Dealings

They came to Balaam, and said to him, "Thus says Balak the son of Zippor, 'Please let nothing hinder you from coming to me:

Verse ConceptsAvoid Being Hindered

For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.

Verse ConceptsLackDesertsGod, The ProviderJourneyThe Number FortyWatchfulness, DivineDivine SuppliesanniversariesGod, All knowing40 To 50 YearsPlenty In The WildernessGod Has Been With YouBlessings From Godwandering

Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand; that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfGod Multipling PeopleGod Will Show Mercyempathy

Beware that there not be a base thought in your heart, saying, "The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand;" and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

Verse ConceptsSabbatical YearThoughtYearsCancellation Of DeptDo Not Be StingyPeople Forgiving OthersPeople Without MercyHelping The Poor

But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;

Verse ConceptsCities Under AttackMassacresbreathingbreathgenocide

but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;

Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand.

Verse ConceptsPower, HumanPowerlessnessPeople's Inability To SaveChildren SufferingUnable To Save

so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.

Verse ConceptsCannibalism

As Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that Yahweh commanded Moses.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, In Life Of Believers

Nothing failed of any good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel. All came to pass.

Verse ConceptsGod, Faithfulness OfGod's PromisesThe promises of GodPromises concerningPromisesfulfillment

only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it:

Verse ConceptsReady For War

His fellow answered, "This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army."

Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Handsgideon

The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat; and he had nothing in his hand: but he didn't tell his father or his mother what he had done.

Verse ConceptsPower, HumanStrength, SpiritualTranceBrawnAnimals Torn To PiecesDeliverance From LionsThose Who Did Not Tell

Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, "It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him."

Verse ConceptsAfflicted Saints, Examples OfAfflicted SaintsResignationTelling Of God

He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so."

Verse ConceptsSmallnessFar Be It!Things RevealedThose Who Did Not Tell

Have I today begun to inquire of God for him? Be it far from me! Don't let the king impute anything to his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for your servant knows nothing of all this, less or more."

Verse ConceptsIgnorant Of Facts

Now David had said, "Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him. He has returned me evil for good.

Verse ConceptsIngratitudeReward, HumanMannersUseless LabourPeople Actually Doing Evil

Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

Verse ConceptsDawnGluttonyFeastingExcessdrinking, abstention fromBanquets, ActivitiesDrunkenness, Examples OfMerrinessRevelryDrunk IndividualsThose Who Did Not Tell

David said in his heart, "I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel. So shall I escape out of his hand."

Verse ConceptsEscaping From PeopleDespair

There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them. David brought back all.

Verse ConceptsLackNo LossMissing SomeoneBeing Lost

but the poor man had nothing, except one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and raised. It grew up together with him, and with his children. It ate of his own food, drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was to him like a daughter.

Verse ConceptsCups, Literal UseNoting What Animals EatPossessing SheepPets

The woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and spread out bruised grain on it; and nothing was known.

Verse ConceptsClothCovering The MouthPeople Hiding PeopleIgnorant Of Facts

in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared this day, that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it would have pleased you well.

Verse ConceptsAmbivalenceDesire For DeathOther Unimportant PeopleHating Individuals

The king said to Araunah, "No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

Verse ConceptsFalse WorshipBuying and sellingNegotiationProperty, LandPurchasingReal EstateFree Of Charge

Those officers provided food for king Solomon, and for all who came to king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsTables

There was nothing in the ark except the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, ContentsArk Of The Covenant, FunctionStonesTabletsEmpty ThingsStone ItemsTwo Stone TabletsCovenant Made At SinaiArk Of The Covenant

Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom.

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveLionsSix ThingsUnique ThingsTwelve Animals

All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

Verse ConceptsCups, Literal UseForestsGoldLuxurySilver

Then Pharaoh said to him, "But what have you lacked with me, that behold, you seek to go to your own country?" He answered, "Nothing, however only let me depart."

Verse ConceptsPlenty In Egypt

He said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." He went up, and looked, and said, "There is nothing." He said, "Go again" seven times.

Verse ConceptsSeven TimesLooking And SeeingDirectionWeather In The Last Days

The king said to him, "How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?"

Verse ConceptsAdjurationGod's Word Is True

Elisha said to her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me: what do you have in the house?" She said, "Your handmaid has nothing in the house, except a pot of oil."

Verse ConceptsWhat Is This?Debthelppothelping

Know now that nothing shall fall to the earth of the word of Yahweh, which Yahweh spoke concerning the house of Ahab. For Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah."

Verse ConceptsMinistry, Nature OfWords To Individuals Fulfilled

Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.

Verse ConceptsGoldHerbs And SpicesPride, Examples OfPride, OriginArmoryFragranceThings RevealedTaking Mixed Metalscredibility

He said, "What have they seen in your house?" Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them."

'Behold, the days come, that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left,' says Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsPossessions Taken To BabylonTaking Possessions

There was nothing in the ark except the two tables which Moses put [there] at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsTabletsTwo Stone Tablets

Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom.

Verse ConceptsTwelve Animals

All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

Verse ConceptsForestsGoldSilverSolomon, Life Of

The king said to him, "How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?"

But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' [houses] of Israel, said to them, "You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us."

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTWhat Have We In Common?

The king said to me, "Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart." Then I was very much afraid.

Verse ConceptsHuman EmotionHeart, HumanAnxiety And DepressionHeartacheDepression

It happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone to his work.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahGod HinderingGods PlanGod's Plan For Us

Then they said, "We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say." Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.

Verse ConceptsPeople Bound By Oaths

Then he said to them, "Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don't be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength."

Verse ConceptsFeastingBeing BlessedLeisure, And PastimesLove FeastPromised JoyEating Before GodSitting In DejectionDo Not MournGod Our StrengthAlcoholic BeveragesJoyStrength In Hard TimesHope And StrengthCelebrationHaving A Good DayBeing Happy And Enjoying Lifestrenghcelebratingfriendliness

"Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn't grow old, and their feet didn't swell.

Verse ConceptsClothingThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsThings Wearing OutGod Providing

Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.

Verse ConceptsHuman FavourMan's CounselWomen's Rolesmakeup

Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

Verse ConceptsEnvy, Example OfSitting In The Gateway

The king said, "What honor and dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?" Then the king's servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him."

Verse ConceptsPraising Specific People

Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken."

Verse ConceptsSitting In The GatewayDistinctive Clothing

You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.

Verse ConceptsNothing MissingNo LossProtecting Your Familynegativity

For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

Verse ConceptsFear Will ComeBeing Scaredfriendliness

"But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

Verse ConceptsAbrasionMountains RemovedNature DecayingMoving To A New Place

There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Verse ConceptsNot Prospering

For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeFalse AccusationsPeople Stripping Peoplelent

If it isn't so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?"

Verse ConceptsThose Who Are Liars

For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.

Verse ConceptsThose Frightened Of Godterrorism

For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'

Verse ConceptsFutilityProfitsInfidelity To God

You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.

Verse ConceptsSelf ControlSpeech, Positive Aspects OfTestingVisions At NightPlea Of InnocenceTestsexamsmotivestrying

His going forth is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.

Verse ConceptsHeatCirclesHot WeatherThings ManifestThe End Of The WorldSunGoing To HeavenSunshineThe Moonenergyhiding

Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Verse ConceptsAdvice, From GodPlansEvil DevicesPlans Of MenNothingGod Hindering

Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

Verse ConceptsPhysical LifeWeights And Measures, LinearVanityMan A Mere BreathPsalm InterjectionsPerspective

You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingFree Of ChargeValue

A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.

Verse ConceptsPerversionEvil AssociationsIgnorance Of Evil

Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.

Verse ConceptsSinlessnessWalking In The Ways Of God

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.

Verse ConceptsTwisted Ways

The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.

Verse ConceptsWantonnessA Good Womanignorancewoman

There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

Verse ConceptsPretencePretendingBlessings Of The PoorPoor Or Richacting

"So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'

Verse ConceptsAdulterersAdultery, Results OfComplacencyMouthsInsensibilityFruits Of SinNo SinPlea Of Innocenceadultry

There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

Verse ConceptsEating And DrinkingGood ActivityCaused By GodFinding LoveSuccess And Hard WorkBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifeuncertaintyhardwork

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

Verse ConceptsContentmentGood ActivityBeing ContentBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Life

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

Verse ConceptsAdding To GodSubtracting From God

Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

Verse ConceptsCareersWithheld KnowledgeUnknown FutureBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying Lifeaccomplishments

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