'Though' in the Bible

And when Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them the way of the land of the Philistines, though it [was] nearer, because God said, "Lest the people change their mind when they see war and return to Egypt."

Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, "Even though Balak gives to me his house full of silver and gold, I am not able to go beyond {the command of Yahweh} my God to do a little or a lot.

And then when he hears the words of this oath, then {he will assure himself} in his heart, {saying}, '{Safety shall be mine even though I go in the stubbornness of my heart},' thereby destroying the well-watered [land] [along] with the parched.

[the] hill country will be yours. Even though it [is] a forest, you will clear it, and it will be yours [to] its farthest borders. You will drive out the Canaanites, even though they have iron chariots and [are] strong."

But to Hannah he would give {a double portion}, because he loved Hannah, though Yahweh had closed her womb.

Therefore,' {declares} Yahweh the God of Israel, 'though I solemnly said that your house and the house of your ancestor would walk before me forever, but now,' {declares} Yahweh, 'far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me, I will treat with contempt!

Samuel said, "Even though you [are] small in your [own] eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh has anointed you as king over Israel.

even though the men [were] very good to us; we were not mistreated and did not miss anything all the days we went about with them {while we were} in the field.

He said to me, 'Please stand over me and kill me, for convulsions have seized me, even though my life [is still] in me.'

I [am] weak today even though anointed king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, [are] crueler than I [am]. May Yahweh pay them back for doing wickedness according to their [own] wickedness."

And Mephibosheth [was] living in Jerusalem, because he [was] continually eating at the table of the king, [even though] he [was] lame in both of his feet.

Though you did this in secret, I will do this thing before all of Israel {in broad daylight}!'"

Yahweh will return his blood on his head, because he fell upon two men, more righteous and better than he, and he killed them with the sword, even though my father did not know it; [namely] Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

So then, O Yahweh, you are my God. You have made your servant king in place of David my father [though] I [am] a young boy. I do not know going out or coming in.

And it will happen that I will go from you and the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you up to where I do not know. Then I will come to tell Ahab, but he will not find you, and then he will kill me, [even though] your servant has feared Yahweh from my youth.

though Judah became strong among his brothers and a chief [came] from him, but the birthright belonged to Joseph).

And Hosah, from the sons of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (though he was not firstborn, his father appointed him as chief),

Though the army of Aram came with few men, Yahweh gave a very large army into their hand, for they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. And they inflicted punishment on Joash.

everyone whose heart is set to seek God, Yahweh the God of his ancestors, though not according to the cleansing for the sanctuary."

But if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, even though all of your outcasts are at the furthest parts of heaven, I will gather them and bring them to the place which I have chosen to make my name dwell.'

Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that no gap was left in it--though up to that time I had not erected doors in the gates--

So Yahweh {asked} Satan, "Have you {considered} my servant Job? Indeed, there is no one like him on the earth--a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil. And still he persists in his blamelessness {even though} you incited me against him to destroy him for nothing."

Though your beginning was small, your end will be very great.

whom I cannot answer, even though I am righteous? From my judge I must implore grace.

Even though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me; [even though] I [am] blameless, yet it would pronounce me guilty.

Though {I say}, 'I will forget my complaint; I will change my expression, and I will rejoice,'

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been brought from [the] womb to the grave.

Look, [though] he kill me, I will hope in him; however, I will defend my ways {before him}.

though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the dust,

Even though his stature mounts up to the heaven, and his head reaches to the clouds,

"Though wickedness tastes sweet in his mouth, [and] he hides it under his tongue,

[though] he spares it and does not let it go [and] holds it back in the midst of his palate,

Should I lie concerning my justice? [Though I am] without transgression, my wound caused by an arrow is incurable.'

Look, [if the] river is turbulent, it is not frightened; it is confident even though [the] Jordan rushes against its mouth.

All who do evil--do they not know, [they] who eat my people [as though] they were eating bread? They do not call on Yahweh.

Though they have {plotted} evil against you, [though] they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail.

Though an army encamp against me, my heart will not fear. Though war arise against me, [even] in this I [will] remain confident.

I {behaved} as [though he were] a friend [or] as a brother to me. As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down [in] mourning.

Though he fall, he will not be cast headlong, for Yahweh supports [him with] his hand.

All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.

Therefore we will not fear though [the] earth change, and though the mountains totter into [the] {midst} of [the] sea,

though its waters roar [and] foam, though mountains shake with its surging [water]. Selah

Though he congratulated his soul while he was living --and [people] will praise you when you do well for yourself--

Do not evildoers know, [they] who eat my people [as though] they were eating bread? They do not call on God.

Let them run [away] like water [that] runs off. [When] he bends [the bow], let his arrows [be] as though they were cut off.

Though you [men] lie down between the sheepfolds, [you will be like the] wings of a dove covered in silver and its pinions in yellow gold."

But as for me, [though] I [am] afflicted and pained, your salvation will protect me, O God.

My mouth will tell of your righteousness, your salvation {all day long}, though I do not know [the full] sum [of them].

They mock and speak maliciously of oppression; they speak [as though] from on high.

when your ancestors tried me. They put me to the test, [even] though they had seen my work.

They ascended [the] mountains [and] drained though the valleys to [the] place that you established for them.

In return for my love they accuse me, though I [am in] prayer.

Even [though] princes sit [and] speak against me, your servant meditates on your statutes.

Though Yahweh [is] high, yet he sees [the] lowly, but [the] proud he perceives at a distance.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve me alive. You stretch out your hand against the anger of my enemies, and you save me [with] your right hand.

He will not accept {any compensation}, and he will not be willing, though the bribe is large.

Though hatred is covered with guile, its evil will be exposed in the assembly.

For there is a [proper] time and right [procedure] for every matter, even though the trouble of man [weighs] heavy upon him.

Meanwhile, I saw the wicked being [honorably] buried, but those who came and went from the holy place were forgotten in the city, even though they had done so. This also [is] vanity!

And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I [will] not be listening. Your hands are full of blood.

"Come now, and let us argue," says Yahweh. "Even though your sins are like scarlet, they will be white like snow; even though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

For though your people Israel was like the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of it will return. Annihilation [is] determined, overflowing [with] righteousness.

And you will say on that day, "I will give you thanks, Yahweh, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, and you comforted me.

[Though the] wicked person is shown compassion, he does not learn righteousness; he acts unjustly in [the] land [of] uprightness, and he does not see the majesty of Yahweh.

Yahweh, [though] your hand reaches high, they do not see [it]. Let them see, and let them be ashamed of [the] zeal of people. Indeed, let the fire of your enemies consume them.

Bring out [the] people blind yet with eyes, and deaf, though they have ears.

for the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen one. And I call you by your name; I give you a name of honor, though you do not know me.

I [am] Yahweh, and there is none besides [me]; besides me there is no god. I gird you though you do not know me,

To whom will you liken me, and count as equal, and compare with me, as though we were alike?

And though they say, '{As Yahweh lives},' {therefore} they swear falsely."

{Therefore} thus says Yahweh, "I [am] about to bring on them disaster from which they will not be able to escape. Though they cry out to me, yet I will not listen to them.

For even your relatives, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they call {loudly} after you. You must not trust in them, though they speak kindly to you.

{Therefore} thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophecy in my name though I have not sent them, yet they [are] saying, "Sword and famine will not be in this land." "By the sword and by the famine those prophets will perish.

And [though] Yahweh has sent all his servants the prophets to you {over and over again} you have not listened, and you have not inclined your ear to hear,

to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I have sent to you, {over and over again}, though you have not listened,

"Send to all the exiles, {saying}, 'Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: "Because Shemaiah prophesied to you, though I have not sent him, and he has made you trust in a lie,"

not like the covenant that I {made} with their ancestors on the day of my grasping [them] by their hand, bringing them out from the land of Egypt, my covenant that they themselves broke, though I myself was a master over them," {declares} Yahweh.

Yet you have said to me, Lord Yahweh, "Buy for yourself the field with the money, and call witnesses as witness," though the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'"

And they have turned to me [their] backs and not [their] faces, though {I have taught them over and over again}, but they [were] not listening to accept discipline.

You must not be afraid, my servant Jacob," {declares} Yahweh, "for I [am] with you. For I will make a complete destruction in all the nations where I scattered you, but you I will not make a complete destruction, though I will chastise you to the measure, and I will certainly not leave you unpunished."

Your terror has deceived you, the pride of your heart, [O you who] dwell in the clefts of the rock, [you who] seize [the] height of [the] hill. Though you make your nest high like the eagle, from there I will bring you down," {declares} Yahweh.

"Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my inheritance, though you frisk about like a heifer on the grass, and you neigh like the powerful stallions,

For neither Israel nor Judah [is] a widower from their God, from Yahweh of hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel."

Though Babylon goes up [to] the heavens, and though she fortifies the high place of her strength, from me destroyers will come to her," {declares} Yahweh.

Then the city was breached, and all {the soldiers} fled and went out from the city [by] night [by the] way of [the] gate between the two walls that [are] at the garden of the king, though [the] Chaldeans [were] all around the city. And they went [in] the direction of the Jordan Valley.

Though I cry out for help, he shuts out my prayers.

For even though he causes grief he has compassion according to the greatness of his royal love.

Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Though I have removed them [far away] among the nations and though I have scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary to them [for a] little while in the countries {to which they have gone}.'"

And look! [Though] it is planted, will it prosper? {When the east wind strikes it}, will it not dry up completely? On the garden bed of its vegetation it will dry up!" '"

(though he did not do all of these [things]), for [the son] also eats on the mountains and he defiles the wife of his neighbor.

"And though Oholibah her sister saw, yet in her lust {she behaved more corruptly than her}, and her whoring [was] more than the prostitution of her sister.

"But you his {successor}, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart {even though} you knew all this.

Even though you, Israel, [are] playing the whore, do not let Judah become guilty; do not enter Gilgal, or go up [to] Beth-aven; and do not swear, "{As Yahweh lives}!"

Even though they have sold themselves to the nations, now I will gather them. They will soon writhe from the burden of kings and princes.

Even though they bring up their children, I will bereave them before maturity. Woe to them indeed, when I depart from them!

I drew them {with human ties}, with the bands of love. I was to them like one who lifted up a yoke on their jaws, [though] I bent down to them [and] let them eat.

Yahweh says this: "Even though [they are] powerful and likewise many, even so they will be cut off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no longer.

What value [is] an idol when its carver has fashioned it, a molten idol, a teacher of lies? For [he who] fashioned his creation trusts in it, [though] making mute idols!

Though the fig tree [does] not blossom, nor there be fruit on the vines; the yield of [the] olive tree fails, and the cultivated fields do not yield food; [the] flock is cut off from the animal pen, and there is no cattle in the stalls,

Though I sow them among the nations, in the distant places they will remember me, and they will stay alive with their children, and they will return.