35 occurrences in 7 translations

'Stopping' in the Bible

The steward searched, beginning with the eldest and ending with the youngest, and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

Verse ConceptsBrothersBeginningSeeking For Concrete ThingsFinding Things

Then Pharaoh said, "Look, the people in the land are now numerous, and you are stopping them from working."

Verse ConceptsMany In Israel

Then the angel of the Lord went further, stopping in a narrow place where there was no room for turning to the right or to the left.

Verse ConceptsNarrow ThingsNo RoomTurning To Right And Left

The river Kishon took them violently away, stopping their flight, the river Kishon. Give praise, O my soul, to the strength of the Lord!

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsDeterminationRiver Kishon

And he said to his servant, Come, let us go on to one of these places, stopping for the night in Gibeah or Ramah.

Verse ConceptsStaying Temporarily

And they went off the road there with the purpose of stopping for the night in Gibeah: and he went in, seating himself in the street of the town, for no one took them into his house for the night.

Verse ConceptsHospitality, Examples OfInhospitalityCity SquaresNot Welcoming PeopleStaying Temporarily

Then the Levite, the husband of the dead woman, said in answer, I came to Gibeah in the land of Benjamin, I and my servant-wife, for the purpose of stopping there for the night.

Verse ConceptsStaying Temporarily

Now Amasa was writhing in his blood in the middle of the highway, and the man had seen that all the people stopped. So he moved Amasa from the highway to the field and threw a garment over him because he realized that all those who encountered Amasa were stopping.

Verse ConceptsMotionlessnessComing To RestCovered With BloodTragedy On The StreetsCorpses Of Other People

And you are to put every walled town to destruction, cutting down every good tree, and stopping up every water-spring, and making all the good land rough with stones.

Verse ConceptsFortified CitiesTownEcological ConcernsConquestFelling TreesCities Under AttackPeople Drying Things UpHarming Trees

Pulling down the towns, covering every good field with stones, stopping up all the water-springs, and cutting down all the good trees; they went on driving Moab before them till only in Kir-hareseth were there any Moabites; and the fighting-men went round the town raining stones on it.

Verse ConceptsSlingsFelling TreesCities Under AttackThrowing StonesPeople Drying Things UpHarming Treescrusades

And in the morning he went out and, stopping, said to all the people there, You are upright men: it is true that I made designs against my master, and put him to death; but who is responsible for the death of all these?

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesInnocence, Examples Of

And Menahem got the money from Israel, from all the men of wealth, fifty silver shekels from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria went back without stopping in the land.

Verse ConceptsTax To Be Paid

so he consulted with his officials and his warriors about stopping up the waters of the springs that were outside the city, and they helped him.

But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.

Verse ConceptsUnkindnessCharacter Of WickedPitilessnessPitilessness CondemnedPeople StumblingNot Knowing PeopleRejoicing In Evil

Trying to keep her in check is like stopping a wind storm or grabbing oil with your right hand.

Verse Conceptsnagging

This very day he is stopping at Nob; he is shaking his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsHillsWaving The Hand

Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,

Verse ConceptsAcceptance Of BribesEyes, GuardedBeing FairFinancial AdviceAvoiding Bribes

‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and You do not see it?Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not notice?’Hear this [O Israel], on the day of your fast [when you should be grieving for your sins] you find something you desire [to do],And you force your hired servants to work [instead of stopping all work, as the law teaches].

Verse ConceptsFasting, Of HypocritesMastersOppression, Nature OfHow To FastPointless FastingHumbling OneselfFastingFasting And PrayerAbuse

Hope of Israel,its Savior in time of distress,why are You like a foreigner in the land,like a traveler stopping only for the night?

Verse ConceptsGod, Titles And Names OfHope, As ConfidenceHope, Results OfTravellersCitizenshipReckoned As Foreigners

They left, stopping in Geruth Chimham, which is near Bethlehem, in order to make their way into Egypt,

Then give ear now to the word of the Lord, O you last of Judah: the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, If your minds are fixed on going into Egypt and stopping there;

Such will be the fate of all the men whose minds are fixed on going into Egypt and stopping there; they will come to their end by the sword, by being short of food, and by disease: not one of them will keep his life or get away from the evil which I will send on them.

Verse ConceptsPestilenceNo SurvivorsFamine Killing

And I will take the last of Judah, whose minds are fixed on going into the land of Egypt and stopping there, and they will all come to their end, falling in the land of Egypt by the sword and by being short of food and by disease; death will overtake them, from the least to the greatest, death by the sword and by need of food: they will become an oath and a cause of wonder and a curse and a name of shame.

Verse ConceptsKilled With The SwordFamine KillingMade A Horror

And it hath come to pass, in that day, I give to Gog a place there -- a grave in Israel, the valley of those passing by, east of the sea, and it is stopping those passing by, and they have buried there Gog, and all his multitude, and have cried, O valley of the multitude of Gog!

Verse ConceptsBurying places

His forces will rise up and profane the fortified sanctuary, stopping the daily sacrifice. In its place they will set up the abomination that causes desolation.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsAbolitionAbomination Of DesolationAnimal Sacrifices, Sin OfferingImage Of The Beast

They do not push each other;each man proceeds on his own path.They dodge the arrows, never stopping.

Verse ConceptsIn Order Of RankDo Not Hinder

This is what the Lord says: "Because Edom has committed three crimes -- make that four! -- I will not revoke my decree of judgment. He chased his brother with a sword; he wiped out his allies. In his anger he tore them apart without stopping to rest; in his fury he relentlessly attacked them.

Verse ConceptsTemperUnkindnessAbominations, Judgments OfPitilessnessPitilessness CondemnedHatred Between RelativesThree Or FourEternal JudgementPeople Without Mercyrelentless

And Jesus, stopping, sent for them, and said, What would you have me do to you?

Verse ConceptsCessationStopping StillChrist SummoningRight Desires

And Jesus, stopping, gave orders that he was to come to him, and when he came near, he said to him,

Verse ConceptsCessationStopping StillDrawing Near To ChristChrist EnquiringChrist's Orders

Then stopping, and looking sadly at him, one of them, named Cleopas, said to him, Are you the only man living in Jerusalem who has not had news of the things which have taken place there at this time?

Verse ConceptsVisitingNot Knowing About Christ

But with loud cries, and stopping their ears, they made an attack on him all together,

Verse ConceptsVoicesSealing ThingsGroups RunningGroups ShoutingRefusing To Hear

Erastus was stopping at Corinth; but Trophimus, when I last saw him was at Miletus, ill.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesHealingSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, Nature OfSick Individuals

Bible Theasaurus

Arrest (38 instances)
Barricade (4 instances)
Block (12 instances)
Blockade (1 instance)
Check (14 instances)
Contain (24 instances)
Discontinue (1 instance)
Fillet (1 instance)
Finish (80 instances)
Intercept (3 instances)
Stopping (35 instances)
Terminate (2 instances)

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