157 occurrences in 13 translations

'Support' in the Bible

Moreover, you have turned back the edge of his sword and did not support him in battle.

They will support you with their handsso that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

Verse ConceptsSustaining ProvidenceStriking RocksBeing Struck With StonesHurthurting

The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;

Verse ConceptsAdoption, Benefits OfAbandonmentGod Not Forsaking

Who will give me help against the sinners? and who will be my support against the workers of evil?

Verse ConceptsSupportwickedness

If I say, “My foot is slipping,”Your faithful love will support me, Lord.

Verse ConceptsPeople StumblingGod Shows His LovingkindnessSupport

Be my support as you have said, and give me life; let not my hope be turned to shame.

Verse ConceptsDoubt, Dealing WithHope, of The SaintsHope, In GodDisappointment

Support me, that I may be saved, and I will carry out your statutes consistently.

Verse ConceptsWanting To Keep The Commandments

Give life to my soul so that it may give you praise; and let your decisions be my support.

Verse ConceptsPraiseSpiritual Life, Described ByGod Help!Praise The Lord!LiveSupport

Better is he who is lightly esteemed and has a servant,Than he who [boastfully] honors himself [pretending to be what he is not] and lacks bread.

Verse ConceptsPretenceServanthood, In SocietyShortagesServants Of PeopleSeeking HonourBeing Gay

So that your trust and reliance and confidence may be in the Lord,I have taught these things to you today, even to you.

Verse ConceptsTeaching The Way Of GodTrust In God!TrustFaith And Trust

For the Lord will give support to their cause, and take the life of those who take their goods.

Verse ConceptsExploitationsGod DefendingGod Suing

Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholSleep, PhysicalThe Insecurity Of The WickedIn The Heart Of The Sea

There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.

Verse ConceptsGoatsMaidsMilkteenager

When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he had fathered a son, then there was nothing to support him.

Verse ConceptsBad LuckBeing Lost

Sustain me with grape-cakes, Support me with citrons, for I am sick with love.

Verse ConceptsLove Towards Christ, The Nature Of

Its pillars he made of silver, Its support of gold, Its seat of purple; The midst thereof was paved with love By the daughters of Jerusalem.

For behold, the Lord God of hosts is going to remove from Jerusalem and JudahBoth supply and support, the whole supply of breadAnd the whole supply of water;

Verse ConceptsPoverty, Causes OfFamine Coming From GodNo Water For PeopleSupport

Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.

Verse ConceptsAcquittalGuiltAcquitting The Guilty

To the increase of the princely power, And of peace, there is no end, On the throne of David, and on his kingdom, To establish it, and to support it, In judgment and in righteousness, Henceforth, even unto the age, The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.

Verse ConceptsIncreaseCovenant, God's with DavidGod, Zeal OfLeaders, PoliticalNewsThroneJusticeChrist's DominionMessianic PropheciesTime Of Peace

Your cords have become loose; they were not able to make strong the support of their sails, the sail was not stretched out: then the blind will take much property, the feeble-footed will make division of the goods of war.

Verse ConceptsShipsDividing The Spoil

Strengthen the feeble hands, and support the stumbling knees.

Verse ConceptsFeeblenessKneesHelp The WeakWeaknesstireduplifting

You say you have a design and strength for war, but these are only words: now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority?

Verse Conceptsemptiness

Look, you must be trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed staff. If someone leans on it for support, it punctures his hand and wounds him. That is what Pharaoh king of Egypt does to all who trust in him!

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceReedsStaffTrusting In Man, Warnings AgainstTrusting Other People

I chirp like a swallow or a crane;I moan like a dove.My eyes grow weak looking upward.Lord, I am oppressed; support me.

Verse ConceptsdovesdiscouragementPrayer In DiscouragementSwallowsCauses of failure in

They carry it on [their] shoulder; they support it and they set it [in] its place, and it stands in position. It cannot be removed from its place; even [when] he cries out to it, it does not answer. It does not save him from his trouble.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionemptinessHearingProtection, Not Found InShouldersCarrying IdolsIdolatryOthers Not AnsweringSalvation By Other Things

Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.

Verse ConceptsFaith, Necessity OfPainSuffering, Encouragements InTrusting In GodTrust In God!God As The Object Of Faith

And he saw that there was no man, and was surprised that there was no one to take up their cause: so his arm gave salvation, and he made righteousness his support.

Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessRevival, Nature OfGod's Salvation Made KnownMessianic PropheciesGod HimselfNo One AvailableGod's InterventionSupportsurprises

I looked, but there was no helper, I was appalled that there was no one to give support; so my own arm brought me victory, and as for my wrath, it supported me.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfHelpfulnessGod AloneGod Has AngerGod HimselfSupport

They have become fat and strong: they have gone far in works of evil: they give no support to the cause of the child without a father, so that they may do well; they do not see that the poor man gets his rights.

Verse ConceptsOpposition, To Sin And EvilOrphansFat PeopleNot Helping The Poorprospering

The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I am going to punish Amon [chief god of the sacred city] of Thebes [the capital of Upper Egypt], and Pharaoh, and Egypt along with her gods and her kings—even Pharaoh and those who put their trust in him [as a shield against Babylon].

Verse ConceptsFalse GodsTrust, Lack OfTrusting Others

For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.

Verse Conceptsdrynessdefence, divineWellsGod Drying Things UpGod DefendingWells, Figurative UseFamineRevenge

Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To GodStretching OutGod's HandDestruction Of All CreaturesGod's Hands Stretched OutBoth Men And Animals KilledUnfaithful

And it will be clear to all the people of Egypt that I am the Lord, because you have been a false support to the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsFalse Confidence

When they reached out to you for support, you tore their hands and dislocated all of their shoulders. When they tried to lean on you, they couldn't control their own bowels.'

Verse ConceptsShouldersBreaking SticksPeople Shakingmuscles

‘Thus says the Lord,“Indeed, those who support Egypt will fallAnd the pride of her power will come down;From Migdol to SyeneThey will fall within her by the sword,”Declares the Lord God.

Verse ConceptsAliancesPride, OriginKilled With The SwordGroups HelpingThe Proud Will Be Abased

It will support all kinds of living creatures that will thrive abundantly wherever the river flows. There will be a great many fish, because this water will flow there and turn the salt water fresh. As a result, everything will live wherever the river flows.

Verse ConceptsFishesKingdom Of God, Characteristics OfThe Water Of LifeGod Giving LifeSweetnessRiversLiveFish

And the residue in length, alongside the holy heave-offering, shall be ten thousand eastward and ten thousand westward: it shall be alongside the holy heave-offering; and the increase thereof shall be for the support of them that serve the city.

Verse ConceptsEast And WestGathering FoodMeasuring Jerusalem And The Land

In that very hour the fingers of a man's hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king's house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing.

Verse ConceptsFingersFinger Of GodHousesInscriptionsPalacesWallsPlasterJudgements WrittenFingers Of PeopleGod Writing With His FingerGod's Intervention

No one has the courage to support me against them except Michael, your prince. However, I will tell you what is recorded in the book of truth. >

Verse ConceptsArchangelsBooks, Metaphorical UseMichael The ArchangelBible, Names OfActing AloneAngelic GuardianshipTelling The Truth

"And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, {I stood} as a support and as a protection for him.

He will resolve to come with the force of his whole kingdom and will reach an agreement with him. He will give him a daughter in marriage to destroy it, but she will not stand with him or support him.

Verse ConceptsMen Of PeaceWomen's StrengthResolving Conflict

I saw the sovereign One standing by the altar and he said, "Strike the tops of the support pillars, so the thresholds shake! Knock them down on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the survivors with the sword. No one will be able to run away; no one will be able to escape.

Verse ConceptsDoorpostsVisions And Dreams In ScriptureNo SurvivorsDestruction Of The TempleGod ShakingThose Who Saw GodNo EscapeGod Will Kill His PeopleTop Of Things

Depart in shameful nakedness,you residents of Shaphir;the residents of Zaanan will not come out.Beth-ezel is lamenting;its support is taken from you.

Verse ConceptsNaked In ShameGoing Outside

Flocks and herds will lie down in the middle of it, as well as every kind of wild animal. Owls will sleep in the tops of its support pillars; they will hoot through the windows. Rubble will cover the thresholds; even the cedar work will be exposed to the elements.

Verse ConceptsBirds, Types Of BirdsThings StrippedPelicansHedgehogsCedar Wood

And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see a light-support, made all of gold, with its cup on the top of it and seven lights on it; and there are seven pipes to every one of the lights which are on the top of it;

Verse ConceptsThe Golden LampstandVisions And Dreams In ScriptureSeven LightsWhat Is This?Forties

And I made answer and said to him, What are these two olive-trees on the right side of the light-support and on the left?

Verse ConceptsWhat Is This?Two Plant ProductsOlive Trees

Then the clans of Judah will say in their hearts, ‘A strong support for us are the inhabitants of Jerusalem through the Lord of hosts, their God.’

Verse ConceptsGod Giving StrengthGod Gives StrengthFamily Strength

Bible Theasaurus

Backing (1 instance)
Backup (1 instance)
Bandage (6 instances)
Basis (50 instances)
Block (12 instances)
Bolster (7 instances)
Floor (76 instances)
Foundation (107 instances)
Ground (663 instances)
Livelihood (6 instances)
Supporting (38 instances)
Sustenance (11 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἀντέχομαι 
Antechomai 
hold to , support , holdfast ,
Usage: 2

ἀντιλαμβάνομαι 
Antilambanomai 
Usage: 3

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