22 occurrences

'Stopping' in the Bible

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

And Amasa was stretched out in a pool of blood in the middle of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people were stopping, he took Amasa out of the highway and put him in a field, with a cloth over him, when he saw that everyone who went by came to a stop.

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

He took up with his rulers and men of war the question of stopping up the water-springs outside the town; and they gave him their support.

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

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

My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest,

Verse ConceptsUnceasingContinual Hardship

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)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain