24 occurrences in 11 translations

'Somebody' in the Bible

Now after these things somebody told Abraham, "Look, Milcah has given birth to sons for your brother Nahor.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Testing And Victory

"Look!" somebody reported to Tamar, "Your father-in-law is going to Timnah to shear his sheep."

Verse ConceptsSheep ShearingTelling Of Movements

Some time later, somebody informed Joseph, "Your father is ill!" So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him to visit Jacob.

Verse ConceptsDeathbedsSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, Nature OfGoing TogetherSick Individuals

Meanwhile, certain riff-raff among the people had an insatiable appetite for food. As a result, they wept and turned back, and the Israelis cried out, "If only somebody would feed us some meat!

Verse ConceptsMixed MultitudeWhat Foreigners DoMourning In RegretGreedComplaining

{For example}, when somebody goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood, and the iron [head] slips from the handle [of the tool] and strikes his neighbor and he dies, [then] he may flee to one of these cities, and [so] he may live.

Verse ConceptsForestsToolsWoodCarpentry ToolsFelling TreesSharp ToolsIron Objects

"If a man is {caught} kidnapping somebody from [among] his countrymen, the {Israelites}, and he treats him as a slave or he sells him, then that kidnapper shall die, and [so] you shall purge the evil {from among you}.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentKidnappingCommerceDeath Penalty For Violencerelaxation

While the descendants of Benjamin were learning that the Israelis had gone up to Mizpah, the Israelis asked, "Somebody tell us how this evil could happen?"

"Hey look!" somebody informed Solomon. "Adonijah is terrified of King Solomon! He's gone out, grabbed hold of the horns of the altar, and now he's begging King Solomon, "Swear to me that you won't put your servant to death with a sword!'"

Verse ConceptsFear Of IndividualsPeople Bound By Oaths

Somebody informed King Solomon, "Joab just ran to the LORD's tent and now he's standing beside the altar!" But Solomon ordered Jehoiada's son Benaiah, "Go kill him!"

Verse ConceptsDeath penalty

Somebody told Shimei, "Look! Your servants went to Gath!" So Shimei got up, saddled a donkey, and traveled to Gath to find his servants. He found them and brought them back from Gath.

Verse ConceptsPreparing To TravelSaddling DonkeysThose Looking For People

"Somebody get me a sword." So they brought a sword to the king.

Starting about noon, Elijah began to tease them: "Shout louder! "He's a god, so maybe he's busy. "Maybe he's relieving himself. "Maybe he's busy someplace. "Maybe he's taking a nap and somebody needs to wake him up."

Verse ConceptsGod, As SpiritHourHumourIronyRidicule, Nature OfSleep, SpiritualFundistractionsawakeningjokingvacation

The young men who served as officials within the provinces led the charge, and somebody informed Ben-hadad, "Some men have come out from Samaria."

Verse ConceptsFirst To Fight

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."

Verse ConceptsBreastplatesBow And Arrows, Uses OfArmourDeath Of The Wicked, Examples OfArchers, Men Shot ByChancearmorlungs

Somebody went out into the fields to grab some herbs, found a wild vine, and gathered a lap full of wild gourds, which he came and sliced up into the stew pot, but nobody else knew.

Verse ConceptsUnknown ThingsHerbsWeedpot

So the king ordered, "Go and discover where he is, so I may send men to take him into custody." Later somebody told him, "Look! He's in Dothan!"

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."

Verse ConceptsBreastplatesBow And Arrows, Uses OfArmour

"Will you get offended if somebody tries to talk to you? Who can keep from speaking at a time like this?

[Is] it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who [then] [is] he [who] would stand {before it}?

Verse ConceptsAble To StandFierce Men

Better is a person of humble standing who nevertheless has a servant, than one who pretends to be somebody important yet has no food.

Verse ConceptsPretenceServanthood, In SocietyShortagesServants Of PeopleSeeking HonourBeing Gay

And if someone overpowers one person, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not easily broken.

Verse ConceptsCordsAn Overpowering PresencePlaitingTwo PeopleThreefoldknots

And [so] I sought for them somebody, one repairing [the] wall and standing in the breach {before me} on behalf of the land not to destroy it, but I did not find [anyone],

Verse ConceptsPrayerlessnessWallsGapsFigurative WallsNo One AvailableMasculinitybridges

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Individual (61 instances)
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