18 occurrences in 12 translations

'Slowly' in the Bible

And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.

Verse ConceptsFive Months And MoreWaters Subsiding

Let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a pace suited to the livestock and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”

Verse ConceptsSlownessPeople Going Before

Then Moses told the LORD, "Please, LORD, I'm not eloquent. I never was in the past nor am I now since you spoke to your servant. In fact, I talk too slowly and I have a speech impediment."

Verse ConceptsExcusesEloquenceMoses, Significance OfMutenessHumility, Examples OfSelf AbasementSpeech ImpedimentsNervousnessSpeech

He slowly will dislodge these nations before you, but he won't destroy them quickly, so the wild animals won't multiply around you.

Verse ConceptsInvasionsGraduallyWild Beasts SubduedThe Lord Will Drive Them OutGradual Conquest Of The Land

You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor. (Selah)

Verse ConceptsInsectsRebukeBeauty, Temporal Nature OfVanityPossessions DecayingMothsMan A Mere BreathPsalm InterjectionsGod Requite Them!Time Passing

These things I [vividly] remember as I pour out my soul;How I used to go along before the great crowd of people and lead them in procession to the house of God [like a choirmaster before his singers, timing the steps to the music and the chant of the song],With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a great crowd keeping a festival.

Verse ConceptsCrowdsMultitudesJoy In WorshipShouting For JoyHolidayPraise, Manner And Methods OfThanksgivingPrayer, Offered WithGoing TogetherProcessionsPeople Going BeforePeople RememberingThanking GodFestivals Observed

So your poverty will come like an approaching prowler who walks [slowly, but surely]And your need [will come] like an armed man [making you helpless].

Verse ConceptsBanditsAvoiding Poverty

Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.

Verse ConceptsThe Cool Of The DayUntil DaybreakDeer Etc.

Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

Verse ConceptsFrankincenseThe Cool Of The Day

Because these people rejectedthe slowly flowing waters of Shiloahand rejoiced with Rezinand the son of Remaliah,

Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodTrust, Lack Of

What can I say?He has spoken to me,and He Himself has done it.I walk along slowly all my yearsbecause of the bitterness of my soul,

Verse ConceptsHumilityBitterness

(Lamed) Children say to their mothers, "Where are food and drink?" They faint like a wounded warrior in the city squares. They die slowly in their mothers' arms.

Verse ConceptsAppetite, PhysicalPhysical HungerWineSeeking FoodEarly DeathFaintingWoundsMotherhood

Those who die by the sword are better off than those who die from starvation, who slowly waste away like those pierced through for lack of food from the fields.

Verse ConceptsWasteNo FoodPersonal GoodKilling Will Happenhunger

"Son of Man, what's this proverb you have concerning Israel's land that says, "The days pass slowly and every vision ends in nothing.'?

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodFalse VisionsOld SayingsUnfulfilled Word

“Then I will make their waters quiet and clear;I will make their rivers run [slowly and smoothly] like oil,”Says the Lord God.

Verse ConceptsTransparency

And he took me out by the north doorway, and made me go round to the outside of the doorway looking to the east; and I saw waters running slowly out on the south side.

Verse ConceptsComing To GatesNorth GatesFacing East

Then they were willing to take Him on board the boat, and immediately the boat reached the [shore of the] land to which they were going.

Verse ConceptsBoatsMiracles Of ChristAstral ProjectionDestinationsWelcoming Christ

And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;

Verse ConceptsSlownessHard Tasks

Bible Theasaurus

Deliberately (19 instances)
Leisurely (2 instances)
Slowly (18 instances)

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ארך 
'arek 
Usage: 15

כּבד 
Kabed 
Usage: 40

ἀργός 
Argos 
Usage: 4

βραδυπλοέω 
Braduploeo 
Usage: 1

βραδύς 
Bradus 
Usage: 2

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