304 occurrences

'Right' in the Bible

If you do what is right, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”

Verse ConceptsAcceptance, divineAcceptance, From GodAbel and CainDoorsSin, Causes OfCrouchingEvil DesiresThe Entrance Of SinAcceptanceDoing The Right ThingSmiling

Isn’t the whole land before you? Separate from me: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”

Verse ConceptsPeople PartingTurning To Right And Left

And he said to him, “All right, I’ll grant your request about this matter too and will not demolish the town you mentioned.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CitiesAcceptance

Then I bowed down, worshiped the Lord, and praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who guided me on the right way to take the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.

Verse ConceptsBowing Heads Before GodGod Has GuidedBlessed Be God!

You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me.”

Judah recognized them and said, “She is more in the right than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not know her intimately again.

Verse ConceptsRecognising ThingsGiving In Marriage

Then Joseph took them both—with his right hand Ephraim toward Israel’s left, and with his left hand Manasseh toward Israel’s right—and brought them to Israel.

But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger, and crossing his hands, put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

Verse ConceptsFirstbornHandsLaying On Of HandsFirstborn SonsHands On HeadsLeft HandsLaying On Hands To HealBlessings For The Right Hand

When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he thought it was a mistake and took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s.

Verse ConceptsHands On HeadsBlessings For The Right HandTroubling Individuals

Joseph said to his father, “Not that way, my father! This one is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”

Verse ConceptsFirstborn SonsHands On HeadsLaying On Hands To HealDissentBlessings For The Right Hand

The scepter will not depart from Judahor the staff from between his feetuntil He whose right it is comesand the obedience of the peoples belongs to Him.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalSceptreStaffUnity, God's Goal OfProphecies Concerning ChristMessianic PropheciesGathered By God

But Moses said, “It would not be right to do that, because what we will sacrifice to the Lord our God is detestable to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice what the Egyptians detest in front of them, won’t they stone us?

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbominations, PracticesFear Of StoningHating Peoplescats

and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with the waters like a wall to them on their right and their left.

Verse ConceptsGod's ProvisionFigurative Walls

But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with the waters like a wall to them on their right and their left.

Verse ConceptsMoses, Life OfFigurative WallsWalking Through WaterDry Land

He said, “If you will carefully obey the Lord your God, do what is right in His eyes, pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, I will not inflict any illnesses on you that I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am Yahweh who heals you.”

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfTemporal BlessingsAbolitionBlessings, To IsraeldoctorsdiseasesCommands, in OTHealingGod As DoctorI Am The LordGod HealsHealth PromisedNames Involving GodPay Attention To God!Results Of Keeping The CommandmentsDiseaseGod Healing Our LandSicknessIllnessHealth And Healing

If she is displeasing to her master, who chose her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners because he has acted treacherously toward her.

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In Everyday LifeLaws Restricting ForeignersNot Pleasing PeopleUnfaithful

Slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, on his sons’ right earlobes, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Sprinkle the remaining blood on all sides of the altar.

Verse ConceptsEarsThumbsToesOther Right Parts

“Take the fat from the ram, the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails, the fatty lobe of the liver, the two kidneys and the fat on them, and the right thigh (since this is a ram for ordination);

Verse ConceptsLiversConsecrationAnimal Sacrifices, Wave OfferingTailsResidueThighs Of AnimalsFat Of The SacrificesGod Appointing OthersOther Right Partslungs

You are to give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from your fellowship sacrifices.

Verse ConceptsShouldersThighs Of AnimalsOther Right PartsPeace offerings

The son of Aaron who presents the blood of the fellowship offering and the fat will have the right thigh as a portion.

Verse ConceptsThighs Of AnimalsFat Of The SacrificesPriests Possessing

Moses slaughtered it, took some of its blood, and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

Verse ConceptsFeetEarsSprinklingThumbsToesKilling SacrificesOther Right Parts

Moses also presented Aaron’s sons and put some of the blood on their right earlobes, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Then Moses sprinkled the blood on all sides of the altar.

Verse ConceptsThumbsToesSprinkling BloodOther Right Parts

He took the fat—the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the fatty lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat—as well as the right thigh.

Verse ConceptsTailsResidueThighs Of AnimalsTwo Of Body PartsFat Of The Sacrifices

From the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat portions and the right thigh.

Verse ConceptsWafersOil On Sacrifices

but he waved the breasts and the right thigh as a presentation offering before the Lord, as Moses had commanded.

Verse ConceptsWave OfferingsAnimal Sacrifices, Wave OfferingSwingingThighs Of AnimalsOther Right Partsbreasts

The priest is to take some of the blood from the restitution offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

Verse ConceptsThumbsToesOther Right Parts

The priest will dip his right finger into the oil in his left palm and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFingersSevenSprinkling OilSeven TimesLeft HandsApplied With The FingerOther Right Parts

From the oil remaining in his palm the priest will put some on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the restitution offering.

Verse ConceptsThumbsToesAnointed By PeopleOther Right Parts

After he slaughters the male lamb for the restitution offering, the priest is to take some of the blood of the restitution offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

Verse ConceptsThumbsToesKilling SacrificesOther Right Parts

With his right finger the priest will sprinkle some of the oil in his left palm seven times before the Lord.

Verse ConceptsSprinkling OilSeven TimesLeft HandsApplied With The FingerOther Right Parts

The priest will also put some of the oil in his palm on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the same place as the blood of the restitution offering.

Verse ConceptsThumbsToesAnointed By PeopleOther Right Parts

“If a man sells a residence in a walled city, his right of redemption will last until a year has passed after its sale; his right of redemption will last a year.

Verse ConceptsRelationships And Dating

But houses in villages that have no walls around them are to be classified as open fields. The right to redeem such houses stays in effect, and they are to be released at the Jubilee.

Verse ConceptsVillagesThe CountrysideReversion Of Things

“Concerning the Levitical cities, the Levites always have the right to redeem houses in the cities they possess.

he has the right of redemption after he has been sold. One of his brothers may redeem him.

Verse ConceptsRedemptionredeemed

I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

Verse ConceptsNatureRainWeather, God's Sovereignty OverGifts From God, TemporalGod Sending Rainsisterhood

If You are going to treat me like this, please kill me right now. If You are pleased with me, don’t let me see my misery anymore.”

Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceUniversality Of DeathDepression, SymptomsUnwise PrayersApproval To Kill Oneself

The Amalekites and Canaanites are right in front of you, and you will fall by the sword. The Lord won’t be with you, since you have turned from following Him.”

Verse ConceptsConversion, God's demands forKilled With The Sword

But their meat belongs to you. It belongs to you like the breast of the presentation offering and the right thigh.

Verse ConceptsBodies Of AnimalsAnimal Sacrifices, Wave OfferingSwingingThighs Of AnimalsFood For Priests DefinedOther Right Parts

Please let us travel through your land. We won’t travel through any field or vineyard, or drink any well water. We will travel the King’s Highway; we won’t turn to the right or the left until we have traveled through your territory.’”

Verse ConceptsHighwayPassing ThroughRoadsVineyardWellsNot Turning AsideMan Providing Water

he sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the Euphrates in the land of his people. Balak said to him: “Look, a people has come out of Egypt; they cover the surface of the land and are living right across from me.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyMessengers Sent Out

The Angel of the Lord went ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn to the right or the left.

Verse ConceptsNarrow ThingsNo RoomTurning To Right And Left

So Moses commanded the Israelites at the word of the Lord, “What the tribe of Joseph’s descendants says is right.

Verse ConceptsGod's Orders

‘Let us travel through your land; we will keep strictly to the highway. We will not turn to the right or the left.

Verse ConceptsHighwayPassing ThroughNot Turning Aside

“The Lord heard your words when you spoke to me. He said to me, ‘I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. Everything they have said is right.

Verse ConceptsGod Paid Attention To Them

“Be careful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or the left.

Verse ConceptsOrthodoxy, In OtMoving ForwardNot Turning Aside

Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight, so that you may prosper and so that you may enter and possess the good land the Lord your God swore to give your fathers,

Verse ConceptsOaths, DivineDoing RightDoing The Right ThingDoing Your Best

“You are not to do as we are doing here today; everyone is doing whatever seems right in his own eyes.

Verse ConceptsAnarchyDoing The Right ThingDoing Your Best

Do not eat it, so that you and your children after you will prosper, because you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.

Verse ConceptsPeople Consuming BloodPersonal GoodForbidden Food

Be careful to obey all these things I command you, so that you and your children after you may prosper forever, because you will be doing what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsTemporal BlessingsPersonal GoodObeying God

This will occur if you obey the Lord your God, keeping all His commands I am giving you today, doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God.

Verse ConceptsKeep The Commandments!

You must abide by the instruction they give you and the verdict they announce to you. Do not turn to the right or the left from the decision they declare to you.

Verse ConceptsNot Turning AsideTurning To Right And LeftKeeping Man's Word

Then his heart will not be exalted above his countrymen, he will not turn from this command to the right or the left, and he and his sons will continue ruling many years over Israel.

Verse ConceptsNot Turning AsideAction For A Long TimeDo Not Be ProudTurning To Right And LeftAuthority

You must purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, for you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.

Do not turn aside to the right or the left from all the things I am commanding you today, and do not go after other gods to worship them.

Verse ConceptsObedience To GodNot Turning AsideDifferent GodsDo Not Have Other gods

He said:The Lord came from Sinaiand appeared to them from Seir;He shone on them from Mount Paranand came with ten thousand holy ones,with lightning from His right hand for them.

Verse ConceptsSouthTens Of ThousandsThousands Of Angels Worship God

Above all, be strong and very courageous to carefully observe the whole instruction My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or the left, so that you will have success wherever you go.

Verse ConceptsCourage, In Facing EnemiesBeing ConfidentSuccessMoving ForwardStrength Of PeopleNot Turning AsideBe Courageous!Be Strong!Keep The Commandments!Success Through GodCourageCourage And Strength

Now we are in your hands. Do to us whatever you think is right.”

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Hands

“Be very strong and continue obeying all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you do not turn from it to the right or left

Verse ConceptsBook of the LawLibertinismMoses, Significance OfThe Authority Of ScriptureWord Of GodBraveryNot Turning AsideStanding FirmKeep The Commandments!

Ehud made himself a double-edged sword 18 inches long. He strapped it to his right thigh under his clothes

Verse ConceptsThighsTwo SidedDimensions Of Other ThingsOther Right Parts

Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and plunged it into Eglon’s belly.

Verse ConceptsMurderStomachsThighsOther Right Parts

She reached for a tent peg,her right hand, for a workman’s mallet.Then she hammered Sisera—she crushed his head;she shattered and pierced his temple.

Verse ConceptsHeadsHandsPegsSharp ToolsKilling Named Individuals

The three companies blew their trumpets and shattered their pitchers. They held their torches in their left hands, their trumpets in their right hands, and shouted, “A sword for Yahweh and for Gideon!”

Verse ConceptsShoutingBattle CriesGod's Swordgideon

Samson took hold of the two middle pillars supporting the temple and leaned against them, one on his right hand and the other on his left.

The redeemer replied, “I can’t redeem it myself, or I will ruin my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption, because I can’t redeem it.”

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions Concerning

At an earlier period in Israel, a man removed his sandal and gave it to the other party in order to make any matter legally binding concerning the right of redemption or the exchange of property. This was the method of legally binding a transaction in Israel.

Verse ConceptsCustomGesturesMarketsTraditionsApprovalContracts

If that man said to him, “The fat must be burned first; then you can take whatever you want for yourself,” the servant would reply, “No, I insist that you hand it over right now. If you don’t, I’ll take it by force!”

The cows went straight up the road to Beth-shemesh. They stayed on that one highway, lowing as they went; they never strayed to the right or to the left. The Philistine rulers were walking behind them to the territory of Beth-shemesh.

Verse ConceptsNot Turning AsideDirectionNatural Disasters

Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I’ll make one with you on this condition: that I gouge out everyone’s right eye and humiliate all Israel.”

Verse ConceptsBlindness, Causes OfdisabilitiesNegotiationUnkindnessEyes HarmedBlindingOther BlindingOther Right PartsSurrendercredibility

His armor-bearer responded, “Do what is in your heart. You choose. I’m right here with you whatever you decide.”

Verse ConceptsHuman AffectionHeart, HumanUnity, Of God's PeopleArmorbearerFighting Togetherarmor

“All right,” Jonathan replied, “we’ll cross over to the men and then let them see us.

Verse ConceptsPeople Made Known

So Saul said to the Lord, “God of Israel, give us the right decision.” Jonathan and Saul were selected, and the troops were cleared of the charge.

Verse ConceptsCasting LotsPrayer, As Asking GodUrim And Thummim

Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?”“There is still the youngest,” he answered, “but right now he’s tending the sheep.” Samuel told Jesse, “Send for him. We won’t sit down to eat until he gets here.”

Verse ConceptsDavid, Early LifeChildren, examples ofSheepShepherds, As OccupationsThe Youngest ChildThose Who Kept Stock

Then she said to her male servants, “Go ahead of me. I will be right behind you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Did Not Tell

He chased Abner and did not turn to the right or the left in his pursuit of him.

Verse ConceptsNot Turning Asiderelentless

Abner said to him, “Turn to your right or left, seize one of the young soldiers, and take whatever you can get from him.” But Asahel would not stop chasing him.

Verse ConceptsPlunderingNot Turning AsideChanging Direction

But Asahel refused to turn away, so Abner hit him in the stomach with the end of his spear. The spear went through his body, and he fell and died right there. When all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, they stopped,

Verse ConceptsBackSpearsStomachsPiercingsMotionlessnessComing To RestStriking To Death

The messenger reported to David, “The men gained the advantage over us and came out against us in the field, but we counterattacked right up to the entrance of the gate.

The king asked, “Did Joab put you up to all this?”The woman answered. “As you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or left from all my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave orders to me; he told your servant exactly what to say.

Verse ConceptsSpokesmenTurning To Right And Left

Then Absalom said to his servants, “See, Joab has a field right next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set fire to it!” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

Verse ConceptsGrainArsonBurning Plants

Absalom said to him, “Look, your claims are good and right, but the king does not have anyone to listen to you.”

Verse ConceptsClaims

When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba, Mephibosheth’s servant, was right there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with 200 loaves of bread, 100 clusters of raisins, 100 bunches of summer fruit, and a skin of wine.

Verse ConceptsFruitFoodFig treeRaisinsStewardshipWaitingOne HundredThe Number Two HundredSummer Fruit

He threw stones at David and at all the royal servants, the people and the warriors on David’s right and left.

Verse ConceptsGuardsStoningThrowing Stones

“You just saw him!” Joab exclaimed. “Why didn’t you strike him to the ground right there? I would have given you 10 silver pieces and a belt!”

Verse ConceptsArmourBeltsArmor ProtectionPeople Giving Clothes

The king asked, “Is the young man Absalom all right?”Ahimaaz replied, “When Joab sent the king’s servant and your servant, I saw a big disturbance, but I don’t know what it was.”

Verse ConceptsConfusionCareServanthood, In Society

The king asked the Cushite, “Is the young man Absalom all right?”The Cushite replied, “May what has become of the young man happen to the enemies of my lord the king and to all who rise up against you with evil intent.”

Verse ConceptsEmotions, Kinds OfLike Bad People

For my grandfather’s entire family deserves death from my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. So what further right do I have to keep on making appeals to the king?”

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of Deathgrandfathers

Joab asked Amasa, “Are you well, my brother?” Then with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingConfidence BetrayedBeardsHealthKissesSalutationsFacial Hair

That is not my intention. There is a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, who has rebelled against King David. Deliver this one man, and I will withdraw from the city.”The woman replied to Joab, “All right. His head will be thrown over the wall to you.”

Verse ConceptsHanding Over People

So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him about Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, sat down on his throne, and had a throne placed for the king’s mother. So she sat down at his right hand.

Verse ConceptsQueensRespect, For Human BeingsThroneRight Sides

The door for the lowest side chamber was on the right side of the temple. They went up a stairway to the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third.

Verse ConceptsStairwaysRight SidesSteps

He set up the pillars at the portico of the sanctuary: he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin; then he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz.

Verse ConceptsPillarsPillars For Solomon's TempleRight SidesLeft Hand SidePeople Naming Things

He set five water carts on the right side of the temple and five on the left side. He put the reservoir near the right side of the temple toward the southeast.

Verse ConceptsFive Things

the pure gold lampstands in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right and five on the left; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;

Verse ConceptsLampsFive ThingsTen Things

For they have abandoned Me; they have bowed the knee to Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Milcom, the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and to carry out My statutes and My judgments as his father David did.

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsForsaking GodServing Asherah

“‘After that, if you obey all I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and My commands as My servant David did, I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give you Israel.

Verse Conceptsethics, and graceCommands, in OTBuildingKingsGod Will Be With YouKeep The Commandments!The Dynasty Of David

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Compensate (7 instances)
Conscientious (8 instances)
Correct (48 instances)
Equal (81 instances)
Rectify (1 instance)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
δεξιός 
Dexios 
Usage: 36

ימן 
Yaman 
Usage: 4

ימני 
Y@maniy 
Usage: 32

מישׁר 
meyshar 
Usage: 19

נכחה 
N@kochah 
Usage: 4

צדּיק 
Tsaddiyq 
Usage: 206

אמן 
'aman 
turn to the right
Usage: 1

אמת 
'emeth 
Usage: 127

גּאלּה 
G@ullah 
Usage: 14

ימין 
Yamiyn 
Usage: 139

ישׁר 
Yashar 
Usage: 26

ישׁר 
Yosher 
Usage: 14

ישׁר 
Yashar 
Usage: 119

כּוּן 
Kuwn 
Usage: 217

כּשׁר 
Kasher 
Usage: 3

כּשׁרון 
Kishrown 
Usage: 3

מישׁר מישׁור 
Miyshowr 
Usage: 23

משׁפּט 
Mishpat 
Usage: 421

נכח 
Nakoach 
Usage: 4

צדק 
Tsadaq 
Usage: 41

צדקה 
Tsidqah (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

צדקה 
Ts@daqah 
Usage: 157

δικαιοκρισία 
Dikaiokrisia 
Usage: 1

δίκαιος 
Dikaios 
Usage: 57

δικαιοσύνη 
Dikaiosune 
Usage: 83

δικαιόω 
Dikaioo 
Usage: 35

δικαίωμα 
Dikaioma 
Usage: 10

δικαίως 
Dikaios 
Usage: 4

ἐξουσία 
Exousia 
Usage: 79

εὐθύς 
Euthus 
Usage: 12

εὐθύτης 
Euthutes 
Usage: 1

ὀρθοτομέω 
Orthotomeo 
Usage: 1

ὀρθῶς 
Orthos 
Usage: 2

σωφρονέω 
Sophroneo 
be in right mind , be sober , be sober minded , soberly
Usage: 6

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