'Severely' in the Bible
But Abram said to Sarai, “Look, your maid is entirely in your hands and subject to your authority; do as you please with her.” So Sarai treated her harshly and humiliated her, and Hagar fled from her.
but after them seven years of famine are ahead, during which all of the abundance will be forgotten throughout the land of Egypt. The famine will ravage the land so severely that
The archers have severely grieved him, shot at him, and persecute him:
Now, listen carefully! The cry of the Israelis has come to my attention about how severely the Egyptians have been oppressing them.
and so that you may tell your son and grandson how severely I dealt with the Egyptians and performed miraculous signs among them, and you will know that I am Yahweh.”
"Look now! I AM, and there is no other god besides me. I myself cause death and I sustain life; I wound severely and I also heal; from my power no one can deliver.
Wherever they went, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had spoken and as the Lord had sworn to them, so that they were severely distressed.
The sons of Israel cried to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron chariots, and he oppressed the sons of Israel severely for twenty years.
Israel was so severely weakened by Midian that the Israelites cried out to the Lord for help.
And the men of Ephraim say unto him, 'What is this thing thou hast done to us -- not to call for us when thou didst go to fight with Midian?' and they strive with him severely;
She wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it happened on the seventh day, that he told her, because she pressed him severely; and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.
Wherever you die, I will die -- and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me severely if I do not keep my promise! Only death will be able to separate me from you!"
Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the Lord had kept Hannah from conceiving.
“What was the message He gave you?” Eli asked. “Don’t hide it from me. May God punish you and do so severely if you hide anything from me that He told you.”
The Lord’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod, terrorizing and afflicting the people of Ashdod and its territory with tumors.
When the men of Ashdod saw how things were, they said, "Don't let the Ark of the God of Israel stay with us, because he is severely attacking us and our god Dagon."
So they assembled all the leaders of the Philistines and said, "Get the ark of the God of Israel out of here! Let it go back to its own place so that it won't kill us and our people!" The terror of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there.
Why then do you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When He had severely dealt with them, did they not allow the people to go, and they departed?
Meanwhile, Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been severely oppressing the descendants of Gad and descendants of Reuben, gouging out their right eyes and not allowing Israel to have a deliverer. No one was left among the Israelis across the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out. However, 7,000 men had escaped from the Ammonites and entered Jabesh-gilead.
Saul declared to him, “May God punish me and do so severely if you do not die, Jonathan!”
but when Saul saw that he [was] very successful, {he was severely threatened by him}.
If my father intends to bring evil on you, may God punish Jonathan and do so severely if I do not tell you and send you away so you may go in peace. May the Lord be with you, just as He was with my father.
{David took these words seriously} and {felt severely threatened by} Achish the king of Gath.
God will severely punish David, if I leave alive until morning even one male from all those who belong to him!"
When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers caught up with him and severely wounded him.
May God punish Abner and do so severely if I don’t do for David what the Lord swore to him:
Then they came to urge David to eat bread while it was still day, but David took an oath: “May God punish me and do so severely if I taste bread or anything else before sunset!”
And tell Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me and do so severely if you don’t become commander of the army from now on instead of Joab!’”
And look, Shimei the son of Gera the son of the Benjaminite from Bahurim is with you. Now he {cursed me severely} when I went to Mahanaim, but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, so I swore to him by Yahweh, 'I surely will not kill you with the sword.'
Then Solomon took an oath by the Lord: “May God punish me and do so severely if Adonijah has not made this request at the cost of his life.
So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “May the gods punish me and do so severely if I don’t make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow!”
Then Ben-hadad sent messengers to him and said, “May the gods punish me and do so severely if Samaria’s dust amounts to a handful for each of the people who follow me.”
He found another man and said, "Wound me!" So the man wounded him severely.
Meanwhile, somebody drew his bow aimlessly and struck the king of Israel between the scales where his armor breastplates joined, so he instructed his chariot driver, "Turn around and take me out of the battle, because I've been severely wounded."
He announced, “May God punish me and do so severely if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today.”
When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers found him and severely wounded him.
Then David said to God, "I have sinned severely [in] that I have done this thing. But now, please forgive the sin of your servant, for I have been very foolish."
And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, he fell {severely} ill in his feet. But even in his illness he did not seek Yahweh, but [only] among the healers.
Meanwhile, somebody drew his bow and struck the king of Israel at a weak spot where his armor plates joined, so he instructed his chariot driver, "Turn around and take me out of the battle, because I've been severely wounded."
So look, the Lord is about to severely afflict your people, your sons, your wives, and all you own.
For Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he had dealt wantonly in Judah, and trespassed severely against Yahweh.
The archers shot King Josiah, and he said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am severely wounded!”
It grieved me severely: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the room.
“These ten times you have insulted me;You are not ashamed to wrong me [and harden your hearts against me].
I am faint and severely crushed;I groan because of the anguish of my heart.
You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)
My heart is severely pained within me. The terrors of death have fallen on me.
The Lord disciplined me severelybut did not give me over to death.
I am severely afflicted;Lord, give me life through Your word.
Lord, after all this, will You restrain Yourself?Will You keep silent and afflict severely?
Woe to me because of my brokenness—I am severely wounded!I exclaimed, “This is my intense suffering,but I must bear it.”
“The heart is deceitful above all thingsAnd it is extremely sick;Who can understand it fully and know its secret motives?
“Is it nothing to all you who pass this way?Look and see if there is any pain like my painWhich was severely dealt out to me,Which the Lord inflicted on the day of His fierce anger.
Because his father {oppressed severely}; {he stole from his brother}; [that] which [is] not good he did in the midst of his people, and look! He will die through his guilt.
They severely oppress the people of the land, and {they committed robbery}, and they mistreated [the] needy and [the] poor, and they oppressed the alien {without} justice.
I'll take vengeance on them, punishing them severely in my anger. They'll know that I am the LORD when I take my vengeance on them."'"
“As a result, I have begun to strike you severely,bringing desolation because of your sins.
On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who try to lift it will injure themselves severely when all the nations of the earth gather against her.
Suddenly, a Canaanite woman from that territory came near and began to shout, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed!"
“Lord,” he said, “have mercy on my son, because he has seizures and suffers severely. He often falls into the fire and often into the water.
and will turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged severely and crucified. Yet on the third day, he will be raised."
He who falls on this stone will be severely hurt; but he on whom it falls will be utterly crushed."
Then his master will punish him severely and assign him a place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.
Jesus sternly warned them [again and again] not to tell who He was.
They will mock him, spit on him, flog him severely, and kill him. Yet after three days, he will rise again."
Many sternly rebuked him, telling him to keep still and be quiet; but he kept on shouting out all the more, “Son of David (Messiah), have mercy on me!”
and they, having taken him, did severely beat him, and did send him away empty.
A spirit seizes him, and he suddenly screams; it throws him into convulsions and causes him to foam at the mouth. It hardly ever leaves him alone, torturing him severely.
Even while the boy was coming, the demon slammed him down and threw him into a [violent] convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy and gave him back to his father.
But He turned and rebuked them [and He said, “You do not know what kind of spirit you are;
the master of that servant will come on a day when he doesn't expect him and at an hour that he doesn't know. Then his master will punish him severely and assign him a place with unfaithful people.
And that slave who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it will be severely beaten.
They will flog him severely and kill him. Yet on the third day he will rise again."
Every one who falls on that stone will be severely hurt, but on whomsoever it falls, he will be utterly crushed."
who swallow up the property of widows and mask their wickedness by making long prayers. They will be punished far more severely than others."
But that it be not further spread among the people, let us threaten them severely no longer to speak to any man in this name.
After they had beaten them severely, they threw them into prison and commanded the jailer to guard them securely.
Then the people all set upon Sosthenes, the Warden of the synagogue, and beat him severely in front of the court. Gallio did not concern himself in the least about this.
Because we were being severely battered by the storm, they began to jettison the cargo the next day.
But if someone has caused [all this] sorrow, he has caused it not to me, but in some degree—not to put it too severely—[he has distressed and grieved] all of you.
Because of this, I am writing these [things] [although I] am absent, in order that [when I] am present I may not have to act severely according to the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.
who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people,
This testimony is true; for which cause rebuke them severely, that they may be sound in the faith,
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more severely than others.
I tell you that I am about to cast her upon a bed of sickness, and I will severely afflict those who commit adultery with her, unless they repent of conduct such as hers.
The first went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and severely painful sores broke out on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.
People were [severely] burned by the great heat; and they reviled the name of God who has power over these plagues, but they did not repent [of their sin] and glorify Him.