3 occurrences in 12 translations

'Rather' in the Bible

Won’t the Day of the Lordbe darkness rather than light,even gloom without any brightness in it?

Verse ConceptsThe SunThe Fact Of That DayAstronomical SignsCosmic Disturbances

So Amos answered Amaziah, “I was not a prophet or the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman, and I took care of sycamore figs.

Verse ConceptsProphets, Lives OfSycamoresTreesFarmersSons Of The ProphetsNot The OneThose Who Kept StockBelittlingSchoolFarming

"Look! The days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "when I will send a famine throughout the land not a famine of food or a thirst for water but rather a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Kinds Ofdrought, spiritualLonging For GodPoverty, SpiritualSpiritual DestitutionHearing God's WordReceiving God's WordShortage Other Than FoodFamineBreadDaysEnd Of Dayshungerrumors

Bible Theasaurus

Instead (589 instances)
Quite (92 instances)
Rather (291 instances)
Sooner (22 instances)

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