175 occurrences

'Stretched' in the Bible

And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamGodly Fear, Examples OfThe Only ChildOnly Child Of PeopleIndividuals Fearing GodNot SparingGod ForbiddingLeaving People Alone

Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken?

Verse ConceptsHuntingLions, Figurative Use OfLionsYoung AnimalVigourCrouchingLike Creatures

Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body:

Verse ConceptsBlessings, To IsraelWombGod Will BlessGod HelpsBlessings From GodThe Environmentbreasts

And the Lord said, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the waters of Egypt, and over the rivers and the streams and the pools, and over every stretch of water, so that they may be turned to blood; and there will be blood through all the land of Egypt, in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.

Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesRivers And StreamsStonesWoodPoolsRodsBucketsStretching OutWater ContainersWood And Stone

And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had said; and when his rod had been lifted up and stretched out over the waters of the Nile before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, all the water in the Nile was turned to blood;

Verse ConceptsAaron, PrivilegesBlood, Miracles Connected WithAnger Of God, Examples OfMiracles Of Moses And AaronPollutionsRodsSpectatorsRiver NileRivers

And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the streams and the waterways and the pools, causing frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsStretching Out

And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let your rod be stretched out over the dust of the earth so that it may become insects through all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsDust, Literal UseInsectsFliesThings Changed

And the Lord said to Moses, Now let your hand be stretched out to heaven so that there may be an ice-storm on all the land of Egypt, on man and on beast and on every plant of the field through all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsStretching OutBoth Men And Animals Affected

And Moses said, When I am gone outside the town, my hands will be stretched out to the Lord; the thunders and the ice-storm will come to an end, so that you may see that the earth is the Lord's.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Belonging To GodKnowing God, Nature OfPlaguesPrayer, Practicalities OfProperty, LandStretching OutCessationPraying For SinnersThings StoppingAll Things Belong To God

And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the land of Egypt so that the locusts may come up on the land for the destruction of every green plant in the land, even everything untouched by the ice-storm.

Verse ConceptsSymbolsStretching OutRemaining FoodAnimals Eating

And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; and in the morning the locusts came up with the east wind.

Verse ConceptseastAnger Of God, Examples OfMiracles Of Moses And AaronOne DayOut Of The EastbugsThe East Wind

And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark.

Verse ConceptsStretching Out

And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days;

Verse ConceptsMonotonyMiracles Of Moses And AaronSupernatural DarknessStretching OutThree Days

And let your rod be lifted up and your hand stretched out over the sea, and it will be parted in two; and the children of Israel will go through on dry land.

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Responses ToStretching OutDivision Of WatersDry LandWaters DividedComing To The Red Sea

And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land.

Verse ConceptsRestraintWeather, God's Sovereignty OverStretching OutDivision Of WatersOut Of The EastGod Dispensing WindWaters DividedWaters DividingA Way Through The Red SeaThe Sea DividedThings ChangedThe OceanThe SeaThe East Wind

And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the sea, and the waters will come back again on the Egyptians, and on their war-carriages and on their horsemen.

Verse ConceptsStretching OutComing To The Red Sea

And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesAnger Of God, Examples OfStretching OutDaybreakPeoples Who FledAt Daybreak

When your right hand was stretched out, the mouth of the earth was open for them.

Verse ConceptsRight Hand Of GodStretching OutGod's HandSwallowingGod's Hands Stretched Out

And the Lord said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take some of the chiefs of Israel with you, and take in your hand the rod which was stretched out over the Nile, and go.

Verse ConceptsThe Elders Gathered

And their wings were stretched out over the cover; the faces of the winged ones were opposite one another and facing the cover.

Verse ConceptsWingsCovering The ArkFacingAngel's WingsPropitiatory [Mercy Seat]Cherubim

Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,

Verse ConceptsMaturity, PhysicalTwentyDying In The WildernessDeath As PunishmentDying In The Desert Complaining

But as for you, your dead bodies will be stretched in this waste land.

Verse ConceptsDying In The WildernessDeath As Punishment

They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalSpreadingGardens

He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.

Verse ConceptsCrouchingLying Down To RestLike CreaturesBlessing And CurseBlessing Through God's PeopleCursing Israel

Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Nature OfStrength, DivineArm Of God

And keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out of that land by his strong hand and his stretched-out arm: for this reason the Lord has given you orders to keep the Sabbath day.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfGod, As RedeemerHand Of GodHolidayRememberingCaptivity, Of IsraelAbusive ParentsArm Of GodGod's HandGroups Of SlavesKeeping The SabbathGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

The great punishments which your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders and the strong hand and the stretched-out arm, by which the Lord your God took you out: so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples who are the cause of your fears.

Verse ConceptsArm Of GodGod's HandStrength Of GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

But still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great power and by your stretched-out arm.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfArmsGod, Power OfStrength Of GodPeople Belong To God

And be certain in your minds this day; for these words are not said to your children, who have had no experience of the training of the Lord your God, and who have not seen his great power or his strong hand and his stretched-out arm,

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In OtDiscipline Child

But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

Verse ConceptsApproval To KillFirst To ActDeath Of A Family Member

And the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand and a stretched-out arm, with works of power and signs and wonders:

Verse ConceptsArm Of GodGod's HandStrength Of GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

And the Lord said to Joshua, Let your spear be stretched out against Ai; for I will give it into your hands. So Joshua took up his spear, stretching it out in the direction of the town.

Verse ConceptsSpearsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

Then the secret force came quickly from their place, and running forward when they saw his hand stretched out, went into the town and took it, and put fire to it straight away.

Verse ConceptsSpearsGroups RunningBurning Cities

And they went on waiting till they were shamed, but the doors were still shut; so they took the key, and, opening them, saw their lord stretched out dead on the floor.

Verse ConceptsKeys

Then Jael went out, and meeting Barak going after Sisera, said to him, Come, and I will let you see the man you are searching for. So he came into her tent and saw, and there was Sisera stretched out dead with the tent-pin in his head.

Verse ConceptsPeople Made KnownThose Looking For People

Bent at her feet he went down, he was stretched out; bent at her feet he went down; where he was bent down, there he went down in death.

Verse ConceptsPeople Tumbling

When Gideon came there, a man was giving his friend an account of his dream, saying, See, I had a dream about a cake of barley bread which, falling into the tents of Midian, came on to the tent, overturning it so that it was stretched out flat on the earth.

Verse ConceptsGrainTentsCakesTurning Upside DownDreams Involving Unusual Imagesgideon

Then Gideon said, Because of this, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hands, I will have you stretched on a bed of thorns of the waste land and on sharp stems, and have you crushed as grain is crushed on a grain-floor.

Verse ConceptsWhipsWhipping

Then at the dawn of day the woman came, and, falling down at the door of the man's house where her master was, was stretched there till it was light.

Verse ConceptsDaybreakPeople TumblingAt Daybreak

In the morning her master got up, and opening the door of the house went out to go on his way; and he saw his servant-wife stretched on the earth at the door of the house with her hands on the step.

Now in the middle of the night, the man awaking from his sleep in fear, and lifting himself up, saw a woman stretched at his feet.

Verse ConceptsMidnight

But after they had taken it away, the hand of the Lord was stretched out against the town for its destruction: and the signs of disease came out on all the men of the town, small and great.

And he took off his clothing, acting like a prophet before Samuel, and falling down he was stretched out, without his clothing, all that day and all that night. This is the reason for the saying, Is even Saul among the prophets?

Verse ConceptsWorship Day And NightNudityNaked In ShameIndividual ProphetsOld Sayingssaul

Never will my hand be stretched out against the man marked with the holy oil; but take the spear which is by his head and the vessel of water, and let us go.

Verse ConceptsOpposition, To Sin And EvilThe Lord's AnointedFar Be It!

And when they came into the house, Ish-bosheth was stretched on his bed in his bedroom; and they made an attack on him and put him to death, and, cutting off his head, they took it with them and went by the road through the Arabah all night.

Verse ConceptsBedroomsBeheadingWalking All NightBeds

And he overcame the Moabites, and he had them measured with a line when they were stretched out on the earth; marking out two lines for death and one full line for life. So the Moabites became servants to David and gave him offerings.

Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersLengthTaxationTributesDividing Into Three GroupsThose Subjected To People

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

I have sent destruction on them and given them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

Verse ConceptsFeetDownfallPeople Overcoming

And when the hand of the angel was stretched out in the direction of Jerusalem, for its destruction, the Lord had regret for the evil, and said to the angel who was sending destruction on the people, It is enough; do no more. And the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Verse ConceptsRegretUnhappinessAngels, Ot AppearancesDestruction Of JerusalemGod Changing His MindMore Than EnoughAngels Activities Among Unbelievers

Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:

Verse ConceptsSelf Knowledgesupplication

(For they will have news of your great name and your strong hand and your out-stretched arm;) when he comes to make his prayer, turning to this house:

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfStrength Of God

Then Solomon, after making all these prayers and requests for grace to the Lord, got up from his knees before the altar of the Lord, where his hands had been stretched out in prayer to heaven;

Verse ConceptsKneelingPrayer, Practicalities OfThe Altar Of The LordLifting Hands

Then the king, hearing the man of God crying out against the altar at Beth-el, put out his hand from the altar, saying, Take him prisoner. And his hand, stretched out against him, became dead, and he had no power of pulling it back.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesLimbs WitheredDiseased Hands

And he went on his way; but on the road a lion came rushing at him and put him to death; and his dead body was stretched in the road with the ass by its side, and the lion was there by the body.

Verse ConceptsRoadsAnimals KillingCorpses Of Other PeopleDeath

And some men, going by, saw the body stretched out in the road with the lion by its side; and they came and gave news of it in the town where the old prophet was living.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Happenings

And he went and saw the dead body stretched out in the road with the ass and the lion by its side: the lion had not taken the body for its food or done any damage to the ass.

Verse ConceptsAnimals Eating PeopleCorpses Of Other People

And when Elisha came into the house he saw the child dead, stretched on his bed.

Verse ConceptsDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsThe Death Of BabiesDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A Mother

And over Jerusalem will be stretched the line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab; Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face.

Verse ConceptsPlumb LineTurning Upside DownClean Objects

And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord there between earth and heaven, with an uncovered sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the responsible men, clothed in haircloth, went down on their faces.

Verse ConceptsHeaven And EarthProstrationSackcloth And AshesStanding

And in the same way, the wings of the other, five cubits long, were stretched out, one touching the wall and the other meeting the wing of the first winged one.

Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:

Verse ConceptsStretching Out

And Judah came to the watchtower of the waste land, and looking in the direction of the army, they saw only dead bodies stretched on the earth; no living man was to be seen.

Verse ConceptsObliteration

And at the evening offering, having made myself low before God, I got up, and with signs of grief, falling down on my knees, with my hands stretched out to the Lord my God,

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesCloaksHigh Priest, In OtKneelingPrayer, Practicalities OfReverence, And ObedienceLifting HandsThose Who Tore Clothes

And in every part of the kingdom, wherever the king's word and his order came, there was great sorrow among the Jews, and weeping and crying and going without food; and numbers of them were stretched on the earth covered with dust and haircloth.

Verse ConceptsProvincesAshesWailingPeople Mourning Catastrophe

It is common knowledge among all the king's servants and the people of every part of the kingdom, that if anyone, man or woman, comes to the king in his inner room without being sent for, there is only one law for him, that he is to be put to death; only those to whom the king's rod of gold is stretched out may keep their lives: but I have not been sent for to come before the king these thirty days.

Verse ConceptsOne MonthDeath Penalty For Violence

Then the king came back from the garden into the room where they had been drinking; and Haman was stretched out on the seat where Esther was. Then the king said, Is he taking the queen by force before my eyes in my house? And while the words were on the king's lips, they put a cloth over Haman's face.

Verse ConceptsBedsPeople Tumbling

By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:

Verse ConceptsChaosCreation Of The Physical HeavensCreation Of The SkyEclipsefootprints

Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,

By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

Verse ConceptsClouds, God's PresenceAstronomyThe Moon

Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

Verse ConceptsBrokennessDisastersCrying For Help

And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

Verse ConceptsClouds, God's PresenceThunderUnderstanding

By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

Verse Conceptsmeasurement

When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?

Verse ConceptsDensDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of Creatures

I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

Verse ConceptsDownfallPeople Overcomingcrushes

If the name of our God has gone out of our minds, or if our hands have been stretched out to a strange god,

Verse ConceptsNeglecting God's Thingslukewarm

For our souls are crushed down to the dust: our bodies are stretched out on the earth.

Verse ConceptsBody

My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfBitingLionsSpeech, Power And Significance OfSuffering, Of Jesus ChristTeethSharpnessEnemies Surrounding

In the day of my trouble, my heart was turned to the Lord: my hand was stretched out in the night without resting; my soul would not be comforted.

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofNo ComfortHealing And ComfortOvercoming Hard TimesGetting Through Hard TimesFeeling Lostproblemssoultired

A cloud was stretched over them for a cover; and he sent fire to give light in the night.

Verse ConceptsCoveringDivine ManifestationsLight, NaturalGod Appearing In Fireclouds

I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

Verse ConceptsShadowsTime Passing

And so that my hands may be stretched out to you; and I will give thought to your rules.

Verse ConceptsLifting HandsLoving God's Things

To him by whom the earth was stretched out over the waters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

Verse ConceptsNetsInstinctUseless LabourThings Manifest

Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;

Verse ConceptsThe Call Of GodSelf WillStretching OutRejectionListening To Godconsequencesanswersattention

And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

Verse ConceptsGod, Revelation OfHearingSpreadingPrayer, And God's WillPrayer, Practicalities OfRejection Of God, Results OfResponseSin, Effects OfSinnersWhy Prayer Is UnansweredUnanswered PrayerKilling Many PeopleGod Answering Prayers

For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead bodies were like waste in the open places of the town.

Verse ConceptsdirtRoadsGod's HandMountains QuakingNo BurialsGod's Hands Stretched Out

Aram on the east, and the Philistines on the west, who have come against Israel with open mouths. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Verse ConceptseastHand Of GodGod's HandEast And WestGod's Hands Stretched Outsyria

For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Verse ConceptsOrphansSin, Nature OfWidowsDecadenceGod's HandVirtues Of Young PeopleGod's Hands Stretched OutLack Of RejoicingNot Helping WidowsHypocrisy

Manasseh was making a meal of Ephraim, and Ephraim of Manasseh; and together they were attacking Judah. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Verse ConceptsGod's HandGod's Hands Stretched OutDisunity

... For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Verse ConceptsGod's HandCrouchingGod's Hands Stretched Out

And in that day the hand of the Lord will be stretched out the second time to get back the rest of his people, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the sea-lands.

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDHand Of GodIslandsRemnantRestoring NationsThe Prophecy Towards AssyriaThe Prophecy Towards EgyptDoing Things TwiceSurvivors FavouredRecovery

And the Lord will make the tongue of the Egyptian sea completely dry; and with his burning wind his hand will be stretched out over the River, and it will be parted into seven streams, so that men may go over it with dry feet.

Verse ConceptsdrynessRivers And StreamsWindThe Prophecy Towards EgyptSeven ThingsGod Drying Things UpOther References To The Red SeaRiver Euphrates

But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadCovering The BodyPitsWicked Described AsUnburied BodiesPits As A Term For Graves

This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the hand stretched out over all nations.

Verse ConceptsNationsGod's HandGod's Hands Stretched Out

Bible Theasaurus

Adulterate (1 instance)
Debase (8 instances)
Extend (105 instances)
Stretch (86 instances)
Stretched (252 instances)
Unfold (5 instances)

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