23 occurrences

'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

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?

Still Jesus said, "Somebody touched me, because I know that power has gone out of me."

Verse ConceptsGod, Power OfPower, God's SavingTouching For Healingenergy

For it is rare for anyone to die for a righteous person, though somebody might be brave enough to die for a good person.

Verse ConceptsGood FriendsBrotherly LovePossibilities For PeopleImpossible For PeopleGood PeopleDeath Of God's PeoplePossible For PeopleDyingA Good Manrisk

If anyone speaks in a foreign language, only two or three at the most should do so, one at a time, and somebody must interpret.

Verse ConceptsIn TurnTwo Or ThreeLanguageThe Tonguespeakinggroups

For a will is in force only when somebody has died, since it never takes effect as long as the one who made it is alive.

Verse ConceptsThe Fact Of Deathlosing a loved oneDeath Of Loved OneLife After Death

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Individual (61 instances)
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