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'Seems' in the Bible

See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them what seems good to you. Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof."

Verse ConceptsdaughtersRooftopVirginTwo WomenLeaving People AloneNever Giving UpFather And Daughter RelationshipsProtecting Your FamilyFathers And Daughters

then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, 'There seems to me to be some sort of plague in the house.'

Verse ConceptsGiving Informationmold

Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do."

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Hands

The children of Israel said to Yahweh, "We have sinned: do you to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, please, this day."

Verse ConceptsRescueWe Have SinnedCompetition

Behold, here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. I will bring them out now. Humble them, and do with them what seems good to you; but to this man don't do any such folly."

Verse ConceptsdaughtersGirlsVirginAbusemistressharassmentvirginity

Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seems good to you. Wait until you have weaned him; only may Yahweh establish his word." So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing Mothers

Samuel told him every bit, and hid nothing from him. He said, "It is Yahweh. Let him do what seems good to him."

Verse ConceptsAfflicted Saints, Examples OfAfflicted SaintsResignationTelling Of God

Therefore the men of Jabesh said, "Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you."

Verse ConceptsMan's Action Tomorrow

Saul said, "Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them." They said, "Do whatever seems good to you." Then the priest said, "Let us draw near here to God."

Verse ConceptsDawnPlunderingNearness To God

Then he said to all Israel, "You be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side." The people said to Saul, "Do what seems good to you."

Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, "Does it seems to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, since I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?"

Verse ConceptsInferioritySmallnessUnimportant Things

but if he say thus, 'I have no delight in you;' behold, here am I. Let him do to me as seems good to him."

Verse ConceptsResignationNot Pleasing GodGod's Will Be Done

The king said to them, "I will do what seems best to you." The king stood beside the gate, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.

Verse ConceptsStanding In The Gateway

Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood:

Verse ConceptsThreshingYokesFirewood

Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money."

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalHorticultureCovetousness, Example Of

David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let us send abroad everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather themselves to us;

Verse ConceptsGuidance, God's Promises Of

Be courageous, and let us be strong for our people, and for the cities of our God. May Yahweh do that which seems good to him."

Verse ConceptsBraveryStrength Of PeopleCourage And Strength

The king said to Haman, "The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you."

Verse ConceptsThe Will Of Men

Esther said, "If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him."

He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.

Verse ConceptsBeing FirstDo Not Be RashPerspectiveexams

We have been with child. We have been in pain. We gave birth, it seems, only to wind. We have not worked any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

Verse ConceptsMission, Of IsraelWindBirth Not Being PossibleHaving A Babydeliverancechildbearing

I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Creation OfArmsNatureStrength, DivineMan, Creation OfGifts Of GodGod Showed His PowerOther Gifts Of GodWhat Else God Created

Now, behold, I release you this day from the chains which are on your hand. If it seems good to you to come with me into Babylon, come, and I will take care of you; but if it seems bad to you to come with me into Babylon, don't: behold, all the land is before you; where it seems good and right to you to go, there go.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, Israel Exiled ToArmsChoosing ThingsPeople Set Free By People

Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, [said he], to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the captain of the guard gave him food and a present, and let him go.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
δοκέω 
Dokeo 
Usage: 45

יטב 
Y@tab (Aramaic) 
Usage: 1

נאוה 
Na'veh 
Usage: 10

עין 
`ayin 
Usage: 372

קלה 
Qalah 
Usage: 6

εὐδοκία 
Eudokia 
good pleasure , good will , seem good 9 , desire
Usage: 7

φαίνω 
Phaino 
appear , shine , be seen , seem , think
Usage: 22