21 occurrences

'Suppose' in the Bible

suppose the 50 righteous lack five. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?”He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find 45 there.”

Then he spoke to Him again, “Suppose 40 are found there?”He answered, “I will not do it on account of 40.”

Then he said, “Let the Lord not be angry, and I will speak further. Suppose 30 are found there?”He answered, “I will not do it if I find 30 there.”

Then he said, “Since I have ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose 20 are found there?”He replied, “I will not destroy it on account of 20.”

Then he said, “Let the Lord not be angry, and I will speak one more time. Suppose 10 are found there?”He answered, “I will not destroy it on account of 10.”

The servant said to him, “Suppose the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Should I have your son go back to the land you came from?”

But I said to my master, ‘Suppose the woman will not come back with me?’

Suppose my father touches me. Then I will be revealed to him as a deceiver and bring a curse rather than a blessing on myself.”

Suppose we do go,” Saul said to his attendant, “what do we take the man? The food from our packs is gone, and there’s no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”

Suppose you say to me: We trust in the Lord our God. Isn’t He the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem: You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem?’

Suppose someone says to God,“I have endured my punishment;I will no longer act wickedly.

Suppose you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God.’ Isn’t He the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You are to worship at this altar’?

“Now suppose a man is righteous and does what is just and right:

“Now suppose the man has a violent son, who sheds blood and does any of these things,

“Now suppose he has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, and though he sees them, he does not do likewise.

“Son of man, speak to your people and tell them: Suppose I bring the sword against a land, and the people of that land select a man from among them, appointing him as their watchman,

Simon answered, “I suppose the one he forgave more.”“You have judged correctly,” He told him.

He also said to them: “Suppose one of you has a friend and goes to him at midnight and says to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which, if they were written one by one, I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written.

For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it’s only nine in the morning.

For example, a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and a poor man dressed in dirty clothes also comes in.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
δοκέω 
Dokeo 
Usage: 45

λογίζομαι 
Logizomai 
Usage: 40

νομίζω 
Nomizo 
suppose , think , be wont
Usage: 12

οἴομαι οἶμαι 
Oiomai 
Usage: 3

ὑπολαμβάνω 
Hupolambano 
Usage: 4

ὑπονοέω 
Huponoeo 
Usage: 3

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