12 occurrences

'Release' in the Bible

May God Almighty cause the man to be merciful to you so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin to you. As for me, if I am deprived of my sons, then I am deprived.”

Verse ConceptsGod, Power OfBereavementPeople Showing MercyPeople Releasing Others

He will then sprinkle the blood seven times on the one who is to be cleansed from the skin disease. He is to pronounce him clean and release the live bird over the open countryside.

Verse ConceptsSprinklingSprinkling BloodSeven TimesDiseasecleansing

Then he is to release the live bird into the open countryside outside the city. In this way he will make atonement for the house, and it will be clean.

Verse ConceptsOutside The CityPriests Atoning

The goat will carry on it all their wrongdoings into a desolate land, and he will release it there.

Verse ConceptsCarrying SinPreparing For Actionliberation

This is how to cancel debt: Every creditor is to cancel what he has lent his neighbor. He is not to collect anything from his neighbor or brother, because the Lord’s release of debts has been proclaimed.

Verse ConceptsDebtlent

Then Ben-hadad said to him, “I restore to you the cities that my father took from your father, and you may set up marketplaces for yourself in Damascus, like my father set up in Samaria.”Ahab responded, “On the basis of this treaty, I release you.” So he made a treaty with him and released him.

Verse ConceptsCovenant RelationshipsAgreements, LegalCovenant breakersFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsMarketsRestitutionTradeTreatyCities In Israel

So the commanders of hundreds did everything Jehoiada the priest commanded. They each brought their men—those coming on duty on the Sabbath and those going off duty on the Sabbath—for Jehoiada the priest did not release the divisions.

who turned the world into a wilderness,who destroyed its citiesand would not release the prisoners to return home?”

Verse ConceptsPrisonersCities Under AttackImprisonments

This is what the Lord of Hosts says:Israelites and Judeans alike have been oppressed.All their captors hold them fast;they refuse to release them.

Verse ConceptsThose OppressedMisleading Childrenliberation

“So this is what the Lord God says: I will release a windstorm in My wrath. Torrential rain will come in My anger, and hailstones will fall in destructive fury.

Verse ConceptsWindGod Sending RainGod Dispensing WindFloods

Bible Theasaurus

Departure (21 instances)
Discharge (34 instances)
Dismissal (3 instances)
Firing (3 instances)
Freeing (9 instances)
Release (142 instances)
Relinquish (1 instance)
Spill (9 instances)
Unloose (5 instances)

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