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so they gather together thither all the flocks, and roll away the stone from off the mouth of the well, and water the sheep, - and put hack the stone upon the mouth of the well, to its place.

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As OccupationsGathering CreaturesThe Act Of OpeningOpening PitsStopping WellsRolling

And they said, We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well, and we water the sheep.

Verse ConceptsGathering CreaturesRollingUnable To Do Other Things

And it shall be when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, and Jacob will come near, and will roll away the stone from the mouth of the well, and will water the sheep of Laban his mother's brother.

Verse ConceptsRollingPossessing Sheep

and the men are afraid because they have been brought into the house of Joseph, and they say, 'For the matter of the money which was put back in our bags at the commencement are we brought in -- to roll himself upon us, and to throw himself on us, and to take us for servants -- our asses also.'

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyLoss Of DonkeysWhy People Did ThingsFear Of Individuals

He is to speak to the people for you as your spokesman and you are to act in the role of God for him.

Verse ConceptsSpokesmenMen As GodsSpeaking With The Mouth

that the inheritance of the children of Israel roll not from tribe to tribe. But that the children of Israel may abide, every man, in the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

Verse ConceptsReal Estate

And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them:

Verse ConceptsRolling

And the men have not been willing to hearken to him, and the man taketh hold on his concubine, and bringeth her out unto them without, and they know her, and roll themselves upon her all the night, till the morning, and send her away in the ascending of the dawn;

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofActing All Night

When they took roll call, they noticed none of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead were there.

Verse ConceptsCensus

Saul said to the troops that [were] with him, "Please call the roll and see who has gone from us." So they called the roll {and found that} Jonathan and {his armor bearer} were not [present].

Verse ConceptsCounting SoldiersGone Away

Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against the LORD, in that they eat with the blood. And he said, Ye have transgressed: roll a great stone to me this day.

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To GodRollingForbidden FoodGod's People SinningEating Meat

so he sent messengers to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, "Please play the role of a mourner, wear the clothes of a mourner, and refrain from using makeup. Act like a woman who's been in mourning for the dead for many days.

Verse ConceptsAnointing With OilBereavement, Expression OfMourningOintmentUnhappinessAnointing OneselfPretendingDistinctive Clothing

Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out completely). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews, and they continue in that role to this very day.

Verse ConceptsForced LabourRelationships To This Day

Elijah took off his ornamented cloak, wrapped it up in a roll, struck the water, and all of a sudden the water divided into two parts! One side of the river stood still opposite the other until the two of them crossed over on dry ground.

Verse ConceptsMantlesCloaksMiracles Of ElijahDivision Of WatersOuter GarmentsDry LandWaters Divided

Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews and they continue in that role to this very day.

Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, that went out to war by divisions, according to the number on their roll by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.

Verse ConceptsSecretary

And there was found at Achmetha in the fortress that is in the province of Media a roll, and therein was a record thus written:

Verse ConceptsArchivesScrollsHistorical Books

So then my God put it into my heart, and I gathered together the nobles and the deputies and the people, to register their genealogy, - then found I a register roll, of them who came up at the first, and found written therein: -

Verse ConceptsArchivesNobles

How doth thine own heart carry thee away, and how thine eyes do roll!

Verse ConceptsCountenanceRash People

They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyGaps

'Roll unto Jehovah, He doth deliver him, He doth deliver him, for he delighted in him.'

Verse ConceptsDelighting, Right Kinds OfTrust, Importance OfChrist Pleasing GodGod As A Source Of Delight

Then said I, 'Lo, I have come,' In the roll of the book it is written of me,

Verse ConceptsScrollsBible, Names OfBook of the LawThe Fact Of His Coming

Also in heart ye will work evil; in the earth ye will roll the violence of your hands.

Verse ConceptsPursuing ViolenceInjustice

Roll off from me reproach and contempt; for I observe thy testimonies.

Verse ConceptsI Keep The Commandments

I tried to understand, examine, and comprehend the role of wisdom in the scheme of things, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the insanity of folly.

Verse ConceptsInvestigatingStudying Insanity

Moreover, the LORD said to me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

Verse ConceptsPensScrollsTabletsWritingSpeedAlphabetMaking The Message Clear

and roll on throughout Judah - overflow and pass along, till unto the neck, he shall reach, - and it shall be, that, the stretching out of his wings, shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel!

Verse ConceptsNecksPresent, TheGod With You

For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Verse ConceptsForestsBriersDebaucheryThornsFruits Of SinFire Of Evil

Lo! Yahweh, is about to hurl thee, with a hurl, O mighty man, - And roll thee with a roll;

Verse ConceptsThrowing People

Rolling thee up completely, he will roll thee as a ball into a wide country: there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, O shame of thy lord's house!

Verse ConceptsTrusting In ChariotsRollingShame Has Come

and all the host of heaven shall rot. And the skies shall roll up like scroll, and all their host shall wither like the withering of a leaf from a vine, or like [the] withering from a fig tree.

Verse ConceptsdrynessAstronomyHost Of HeavenScrollsSkyStarsVinesFigsThe Universe DestroyedNature DecayingAffecting Sun Moon And StarsLucifer

"You should fear me!" says the Lord. "You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary."

Verse ConceptsBoundariesSandSeaAttitudes Of RespectOceansAweWavesDivine Power Over NatureBarriersEternal WorldLimits For The SeaSand And GravelFear God!

O daughter of my people, gird yourself [with] sackcloth, and roll about in the ashes in mourning, a mourning ceremony [as for] an only child. Make for yourself wailing of bitterness, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Verse ConceptsAshesLamentingSuddenlyThose Who DestroyAshes Of HumiliationOthers Mourning

Wail, you shepherds, and cry out. And roll about in mourning [in the dust], O leaders of the flock. For your days of slaughter and your dispersions have arrived, and you will fall like a vessel of desire.

Verse ConceptsWeeping

The Lord has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. He promises it as the one who is known as the Lord who rules over all.

Verse ConceptsFate, And FatalismAstronomyCommands, in OTLight, NaturalMoonNatureOceansOrderly PatternsGod As A WarriorHis Name Is The LordSun Moon And Stars Before GodThe Sea Stirred UpSunshineThe Moon

Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

Verse ConceptsCommunicationBooksScrollsBooks Of ProphecyInspiration

Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Jehovah, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.

Verse ConceptsBooksLiteracyOld Testament Claims Inspirationmovement

therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of Jehovah in the ears of the people in Jehovah's house upon the fast-day; and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

Verse ConceptsReading The ScripturesFasting Regularly

Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thy hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.

And they went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.

Verse ConceptsPrivate Rooms

So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll; and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes that stood beside the king.

Verse ConceptsStandingReading The ScripturesPrivate Rooms

And it came to pass, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

Verse ConceptsKnifesKnivesPensScrollsRejection Of God's WordRejecting God's WordThree Or FourReading The ScripturesBroken Things

Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll; but he would not hear them.

Then the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,

Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.

Verse ConceptsDoing Repeatedly

And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah thou shalt say, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?

Verse ConceptsLand Becoming EmptyBoth Men And Animals KilledKings of judah

Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides unto them many like words.

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Methods Of OtAdding To GodBooks Of ProphecyOld Testament Claims InspirationJournalizing

Get you to horseback, roll forth the Chariots, come forth ye worthies: ye Ethiopians, ye Libyans with your bucklers, ye Libyans with your bows:

Verse ConceptsHorsesAttacking With Chariots

Behold me! against thee, O destroying mountain Declareth Yahweh, That destroyest all the earth, - Therefore will I stretch out my hand over thee, And roll thee down from the crags, And make of thee a burning mountain:

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of The WorldGod OpposingSeven Mountains

Moreover he said to me, Son of man, eat what thou findest; eat this roll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.

Verse ConceptsSon Of ManBooks, Metaphorical UseSpeaking As From God

And he said to me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

Verse ConceptsStomachsTasteSweetnessFilling PeopleBooks In Prophecy

And make loud lament over thee, with their voice, And make biter outcry,- And shall lift up dust on their heads, In ashes, shall roll themselves;

Verse ConceptsSorrowSprinklingVoicesDust On The HeadAshes Of Humiliation

Therefore, I will make Samaria
a heap of ruins in the countryside,
a planting area for a vineyard.
I will roll her stones into the valley
and expose her foundations.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsPlanting VineyardsDestruction Of CountriesThe CountrysideFoundations Of NationsThings StrippedBuilding Stones Rejected

In Gath tell ye not -- in Acco weep not, In Beth-Aphrah, in dust roll thyself.

Verse ConceptsDo Not MournDo Not Tell

The chariots roll upon the streets, and welter in the highways. They are to look upon like cressettes of fire, and go swiftly as the lightning.

Verse ConceptsChariotsLightningRoadsStreetsCity SquaresAttacking With ChariotsSpeedSparklingUsing RoadsSteelAutomobilesLightning Used Metaphorically

And I lifted up mine eyes again, and saw, and behold, a flying roll.

Verse Conceptsflying

And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I see a flying roll: the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.

Verse ConceptsBreadthVisions And Dreams In ScriptureLong ThingsDimensions Of Other Thingsflying

They say to him, 'Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?'

Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTCertificate of divorceBills Of DivorceDivorce PermittedWhy Do Others Do This?

and lo, there came a great earthquake, for a messenger of the Lord, having come down out of heaven, having come, did roll away the stone from the door, and was sitting upon it,

Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordearthquakesTombsRollingAngels Doing God's WorkOthers Going Down

And they brought him to him. And [when he] saw him, the spirit immediately convulsed him, and falling on the ground, he began to roll around, foaming at the mouth.

Verse ConceptsPeople TumblingRollingConvulsionsFoamsThe First Sight Of Christ

And, they, said - Moses permitted, to write, a roll of dismissal, and to divorce.

Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTCertificate of divorceWritingBills Of DivorceDivorce Permitted

who taking down the body, wrapped it in a fine linnen cloth, which he had bought, and laid it in a sepulchre, which was hewn out of a rock, and roll'd a stone for a door to the sepulchre: and Mary Magdalene,

Verse ConceptsThe DeadFuneralsClothembalmingLinenTombsExcavationLowering PeopleRollingJesus Tomb

(for it was very great.) but when they were near in view, they perceiv'd that the stone was roll'd away.

Verse ConceptsBarriersBig ThingsRolling

And all went to be inscribed in the census roll, each to his own city:

Verse ConceptsCensusActing For OneselfNativity of Jesus ChristJesus Birth

to be inscribed in the census roll with Mary who was betrothed to him as his wife, she being great with child.

Verse ConceptsCensusEngagementNativity of Jesus ChristJesus BirthHaving A Babymatrimony

The roll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him, and He unrolled it and found the place where it was written:

Verse ConceptsScrollsThe Act Of OpeningOpening DocumentsFinding ThingsWritten In The ProphetsBooks Of Prophecy

Then He rolled up the roll and gave it back to the attendant and took His seat. Now the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were gazing at Him.

Verse ConceptsCongregationSealing The MessageSitting To TeachWatching ChristBooks Of Prophecy

"Roll away the stone," said Jesus. "Master," said Martha, the sister of the dead man "he is offensive by this time, for he has been four days in the tomb."

Verse ConceptsDead bodiesCorruption Of BodyembalmingdoubtersSmellsUnbelief, And Life Of FaithFour Or Five Dayslazarus

And Nicodemus came (he who had first come to Jesus by night) with a roll of myrrh and aloes mixed, about a hundred pounds.

Verse ConceptsDuring One NightWeights Of Other Thingsweight

What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given.

Verse ConceptsEncouraging Faith In ChristOpportunity

(What I am now going to say is not inspired by the Lord: I am in the role of a 'fool,' now, on this business of boasting.

Verse ConceptsFoolish PeoplePeople Lacking AuthorityBoasting

I am quite ashamed to say I was not equal to that sort of thing! But let them vaunt as they please, I am equal to them (mind, this is the role of a fool!).

Verse ConceptsFoolish PeopleBeing Strongassertiveness

Do not allow anyone, who delights in acting humble [i.e., living an ascetic life] and who worships angels, to rob you of your reward [in heaven]. [Note: This "angel worship" could mean holding angels in high regard because of their role as God's messengers, or the claim that God can be approached only through angelic intermediaries]. He places great importance on what he [claims to] see [i.e., visions], being inflated with pride by his fleshly mind for no [good] reason.

Verse ConceptsAdoration, FalseFutilityThe Carnal MindDelighting, Wrong Kinds OfHealthMind, The HumanPrizesSelf DisciplineSyncretismHumility In The Christians LifeIdolatry Consists OfSelf AbasementArtificialnessLiving For The MaterialFalse VisionsEvil HeartsAngelsBe Humble!Evil AngelsAngels Not To Be WorshippedVolunteeringcheaterspietyrealityOccultism Being Forbidden

Keep the young widows off this roll, for when they get to indulging their lower nature in opposition to Christ, they want to marry,

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to God's peopledesiresdefeatDedication In NtRemarriageLimitations Of Youth

when you come, bring the cloke and books, but especially the roll, which I left with Carpus at Troas.

Verse ConceptsCloaksClothing, Need OfBooksLeisure, And PastimesPaul, Life OfDressOuter GarmentsSimplicityPapyrus

And thou will roll them up as a mantle, and they will be changed. But thou are the same, and thy years will not cease.

Verse ConceptsendGod Is UnchangeablePermanenceRollingGod Is Unchanging

For when every commandment in the Law had been read by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of the calves and goats [which had been sacrificed], together with water and scarlet wool and with a bunch of hyssop, and he sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people,

Verse ConceptsCrimsonBranches, Types OfSprinklingWoolRed MaterialSacrificing Cattle Sheep And Goats

Their case is that described in the true proverb, "A dog returns to what he has vomited," and also in the other proverb, "The sow has washed itself and now goes back to roll in its filth."

Verse ConceptsdogsWicked Described AsDegradationSwinePigsUnclean SpiritsOld SayingsUnclean AnimalsBacksliderspork

say, "Write what you see in a roll and send it to the seven churches??o Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea."

Verse ConceptsScrollsWritingChurch, Examples OfPreeminence Of ChristSeven PeopleWriting The New TestamentInspiration

Then I saw lying in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a roll with writing on both sides, sealed with seven seals.

Verse ConceptsBooksScrollsThroneSevenSeven ThingsInside And OutSealing The MessageGod Sitting In GloryBooks In ProphecyFront And Back

But no one in heaven or on earth or underneath the earth could open the roll or look into it.

Verse ConceptsWithheld KnowledgeSecret ThingsGoing To Heavenrevelation

Then I cried bitterly because no one could be found fit to open the roll or look into it.

Verse ConceptsWeepingWorthinessMourning In Regret

But one of the elders said to me, "Do not cry! See! The lion who is of the tribe of Judah, of the line of David, has been victorious so that he can open the roll and break its seals."

Verse ConceptsdefeatLions, Figurative Use OfLionsRootsSealsNames And Titles For ChristJesus As Son Of DavidPromised VictorySeven ThingsThe Act Of OpeningOpening DocumentsChrist OvercomingDo Not MournPeople Of JudahLion Of The Tribe Of Judah

He came and took the roll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne.

Verse ConceptsGod Sitting In GloryBooks In Prophecy

When he took the roll, the four animals and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each with a harp and gold bowls full of incense, that is, of the prayers of God's people.

Verse ConceptsSweet Odoursequipping, physicalMusical Instruments, types ofPriesthood, In NtPriests, Tasks In Nt TimesHeaven, Glimpsed By HumansFour CreaturesHarpsTwenty SomeBowing Before MessiahElders In HeavenTwenty Four Elders

And the heaven was taken away like the roll of a book when it is rolled up; and all the mountains and islands were moved out of their places.

Verse ConceptsScrollsCataclysmMountains RemovedRollingThe Universe DestroyedSky, Figurative UseThe End Of The WorldEnd TimesMoving To A New Place

So I took the roll out of the angel's hand and ate the whole of it; and in my mouth it was as sweet as honey, but when I had eaten it I found it very bitter.

Verse ConceptsBitter FoodSweetnessSlaves Of GodVoice Of The Archangel