37 occurrences

'Taken' in the Bible

And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?

Verse ConceptsBehaviourJustice, In Believers' LivesServants Of The LordNames And Titles For SatanAcclaimingUnique IndividualsIndividuals Fearing Godservanthoodshunning

And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesInciting To EvilServants Of The LordFear Of God, Examples OfUnique IndividualsIndividuals Fearing Godshunning

Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

Verse ConceptsHarvestNot Reaping What You SowOvercoming Obstacles

If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing People

Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

Verse ConceptsGod, Feminine Descriptions OfStriving With GodRegretting BirthDesire For DeathUnseenGod As A MidwifeNever Giving Up

And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheUnborn FetusesNever Being Born

For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

Verse ConceptsGoadsShrewdnessCraftiness

Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?

Verse ConceptsFalse WisdomListening To God

I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.

Verse ConceptsGod Appointed AfflictionsTargetsThose At Ease

His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

Verse ConceptsHeels

He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.

Verse ConceptsSecurityFear, Of DeathFear Of DeathDeath

Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.

Verse ConceptsNetsGod TrappingIs God Unjust?

He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.

Verse ConceptsFamily And Friends

Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPoverty, Causes OfPeople Abandoning PeopleOppressorsNot Helping The PoorTaking Possessions

The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

Verse ConceptsChaosPeople Possessing Other Things

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

Verse ConceptsStrawWicked Described AsLight As ChaffHurricanes

He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.

Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeFalse AccusationsPeople Stripping Peoplelent

You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

Verse ConceptsOrphansPoverty, Attitudes TowardsNot Helping Widows

Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

Verse ConceptsChaosThe DelugeEarly Death

By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;

Verse ConceptsTasteIs God Unjust?Bitterness

Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.

Verse ConceptsIronMinerals

The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.

By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

Verse ConceptsTeethDentistryBreaking TeethIndividuals Saving Others

If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

Verse ConceptsDisappointmentA Broken Heart

In order that man may be turned from his evil works, and that pride may be taken away from him;

Verse ConceptsCausing People To Turn

For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;

Verse ConceptsIs God Unjust?Plea Of Innocence

Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.

Verse ConceptsMidnightSudden Death

And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,

Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.

Verse ConceptsThings Revealed

Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow.

Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.

Verse ConceptsPeople With General Knowledge

For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.

Verse ConceptsForgetting Things

Who has ever taken off his outer skin? who may come inside his inner coat of iron?

Verse ConceptsHorsesOuter GarmentsScales

Bible Theasaurus

Acquire (44 instances)
Adopt (6 instances)
Assume (14 instances)
Choose (144 instances)
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Occupy (45 instances)
Require (110 instances)
Select (39 instances)

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