'Once' in the Bible
And let me bring a piece of bread, then refresh {yourselves}. Afterward you can pass on, {once} you have passed by with your servant." Then they said, "Do so as you have said."
And {once again he spoke} to him and said, "What if forty are found there?" And he answered, "I will not do [it] on account of the forty."
And he said, "Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak only once more. What if ten are found there?" And he answered, "I will not destroy [it] for the sake of the ten."
Once Jacob cooked a thick stew, and Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted.
And once again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. And he was in Chezib when she bore him.
And they said, "Please, my lord, we surely came down once before to buy food,
But if you destroy this people {all at once}, the nations that will have heard your message will say,
You will march around the city, all the warriors circling the city once; you will do so for six days.
And the ark of Yahweh went around the city, {circling once}, and they came [into] the camp and spent the night in the camp.
And they marched around the city once on the second day, and they returned [to] the camp. They did [this] for six days.
So Yahweh left those nations; he did not drive them out at once, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
And Gideon said to God, "{Do not let your anger burn} against me; let me speak once more. Please let me test once more with the fleece; let the fleece be dry, and let there be dew on the ground."
Once again Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the {Ammonites},
and Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, [was] standing {before it} [to minister] in those days), saying, "Should we go out once more to battle against the descendants of Benjamin our relatives, or should we stop?" And Yahweh said, "Go up tomorrow; I will give them into your hand."
But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, "Once the boy [is] weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear before Yahweh; and he will remain there forever."
So Abner said to Asahel {once again}, "{For your own sake}, turn aside {from following me}. Why should I strike you down to the ground? How could I {show my face} to Joab your brother?"
{Once again} [the] Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
Once again there [was] battle at Gath, and there [was] {a man of great size}. The fingers of his hand and the toes of his feet [were] six and six, twenty-four in number. He [was] also born to the Raphah.
For the fleet of Tarshish belonged to the king [and was] on the sea with the fleet of Hiram; once every three years the fleet of Tarshish used to come carrying gold and silver, ivory, apes, and baboons.
For the ships of the king went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram. Once {every three years} the ships of Tarshish came carrying gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
So the merchants and the sellers of merchandise spent the night outside of Jerusalem once or twice.
Once I have spoken, and I will not answer; even twice, but I will not proceed."
In peace I will lie down and sleep {at once}, for you alone, O Yahweh, make me dwell safely.
Once God has spoken; twice I have heard this: that strength [belongs] to God.
Once I have sworn by my holiness, 'I will surely not lie to David,
Do not be terrified of his presence! Go at once and do not delay when a matter [is] unpleasant, for he can do anything that he desires.
{And then} after my driving them out, I will once again have compassion on them, and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance, and each one to his land.
How desolate the city sits [that] was full of people! She has become like a widow, [once] great among the nations! Like a woman of nobility in the provinces, she has become a forced laborer.
They answered once more and said, "Let the king tell the dream to his servants and we will make the explanation known."
Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold {all at once} broke into pieces and they became like chaff from the summer threshing floor, and the wind carried them away and any trace of them could not be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and it filled the whole earth.
Where [now] [is] the den of [the] lions and [the] cave of the fierce lions? There the lioness, the cub, and the lion once {prowled}, {and no one disturbed them}.
For thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Once again, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and dry land.
And other [seed] fell on the rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once because it did not have [any] depth of soil.
And if anyone says anything to you, you will say, 'The Lord {needs them},' and he will send them at once."
And seeing a single fig tree by the road, he went to it and found nothing on it except leaves only. And he said to it, "May there be no more fruit from you {forever}, and the fig tree withered at once.
And [when they] saw [it], the disciples were astonished, saying, "How did the fig tree wither at once?"
Or do you think that I cannot call upon my Father, and he would put at my disposal at once more than twelve legions of angels?
Now Simon's mother-in-law was lying down, suffering with a fever, and at once they told him about her.
And other [seed] fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once, because it did not have [any] depth of soil.
And if anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' say 'The Lord has need of it, and will send it here again at once.'"
And he also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud coming up in the west, you say at once, 'A rainstorm is coming,' and so it happens.
when once the master of the house has gotten up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock [on] the door, saying, 'Lord, open [the door] for us!' And he will answer [and] say to you, 'I do not know where you are from!'
"And which of you who has a slave plowing or shepherding [sheep] who comes in from the field will say to him, 'Come here at once [and] recline at the table'?
And when you hear about wars and insurrections, do not be terrified, for these [things] must happen first, but the end [will] not [be] at once."
but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail. And you, [when] once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers."
Therefore I sent for you at once, and you {were kind enough to come}. So now we all are present before God to hear all the things that have been commanded to you by the Lord."
And behold, at once three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea approached the house in which we were [staying].
And [after they] had passed the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads to the city, which opened for them by itself, and they went out [and] went forward [along] one narrow street, and at once the angel departed from him.
And when he had seen the vision, we wanted at once to go away to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them.
And he took them at that [very] hour of the night [and] washed [their] wounds, and he himself was baptized at once, and all those of his [household].
Now the brothers sent away both Paul and Silas at once, during the night, to Berea. {They} went into the synagogue of the Jews [when they] arrived.
So then the brothers sent Paul away at once to go to the sea, and both Silas and Timothy remained there.
For that [death] he died, he died to sin once and never again, but that [life] he lives, he lives to God.
And I was alive once, apart from the law, but [when] the commandment came, sin sprang to life
then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, the majority of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep.
Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked. A day and a night I have spent in the deep water.
But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones who once were far away, have become near by the blood of Christ.
Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see {my circumstances}.
in which also you once lived, when you used to live in them.
For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.
Once he [was] useless to you, but now [he is] useful to you and to me,
For [it is] impossible [concerning] those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and become sharers of the Holy Spirit,
who does not {need every day} like the former high priests to offer up sacrifices for his own sins [and] then for the [sins] of the people, because he did this once for all [when he] offered up himself.
but only the high priest [enters] into the second [tent] once a year, not without blood, which he offers on behalf of himself and the [sins] of the people committed in ignorance.
and not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered once for all into the [most] holy place, obtaining eternal redemption.
since it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times from the foundation of the world, but now he has appeared once at the end of the ages for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of himself.
And {just as} it is destined for people to die once, and after this, judgment,
thus also Christ, having been offered once in order to bear the sins of many, will appear for the second time without reference to sin to those who eagerly await him for salvation.
For otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the ones who worship, having been purified once and for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sins?
by which will we are made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
whose voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once [more] I will shake not only the earth but also heaven."
Now the [phrase] "yet once [more]" indicates the removal of what is shaken, namely, things that have been created, in order that the things that are not shaken may remain.
who once [were] not a people, but now [are] the people of God, the ones [who were] not shown mercy, but now are shown mercy.
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, in order that he could bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,
Dear friends, [although I] was making every effort to write to you concerning our common salvation, I considered [it] a necessity to write to you to encourage [you] to contend for the faith delivered once and for all to the saints.
Now I want to remind you, [although] you know everything once and for all, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, the second time destroyed those who did not believe.