30 occurrences in 12 translations

'Urged' in the Bible

But he urged them so strongly that they followed him and went into his house. He prepared a feast and baked unleavened bread for them, and they ate.

Verse ConceptsCooking, MethodsImportunity, Towards PeopleProperty, HousesYeastThose Who Provided A Meal

At daybreak the angels urged Lot on: “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

Verse ConceptsDawnIniquity, Punishment ForEvil AssociationsDaybreakDestruction Of CitiesAt DaybreakGod UrgingAngels Providing Protection

Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.

Verse ConceptsAffluenceBlessed By God

And the taskmasters urged them, saying, Fulfil your labours, the daily work, as when there was straw.

The Egyptian officials urged the people to send them out of the land quickly, because they were saying, "We'll all be dead!"

Verse ConceptsDeath Due To God's PresenceHurrying Others On

That prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has urged rebellion against the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the place of slavery, to turn you from the way the Lord your God has commanded you to walk. You must purge the evil from you.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerBad InfluenceGod's WaysPurity, Moral And SpiritualRebellion, Against GodSatan, Agents OfSatan, As DeceiverMisleading DreamsFalse Prophets DenouncedGroups Of SlavesWalking In God's WayDeath Penalty For HeresyGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptDreams And False Prophets

And it came to pass as she came, that she urged him to ask of her father a field; and she sprang down from the ass. And Caleb said to her, What wouldest thou?

Later on, after she had arrived, she urged Othniel to ask her father for a field. As she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, "What do you want for yourself?"

Verse ConceptsDismounting

And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

Verse ConceptsAsceticism, TypesIrritationTroubling Individualsnagging

His father-in-law, the young woman's father, urged him to stay with him three days; and they ate and drank, and they spent the night there.

Verse ConceptsThree DaysFathers In Laws

And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.

Verse ConceptsPeople Who Delayed

He said, 'Permit me to go, for we are having a family sacrifice in the city, and my brother urged me to be there. So now, if I have found favor with you, let me go to see my brothers.' For that reason he has not come to the king's table."

Verse ConceptsBrothersethics, personalTown

Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave. Some urged me to kill you; but I spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh's anointed.

Verse ConceptsThe Lord's AnointedGiven Into One's Hands

He refused, saying, “I won’t eat,” but when his servants and the woman urged him, he listened to them. He got up off the ground and sat on the bed.

Verse ConceptsLost AppetiteBeds

Both his servants and the woman urged him, and so he listened to them. He got up off the ground and sat on the bed. The woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

Verse ConceptsFlourFoodCooking, MethodsBakingKilling Domesticated AnimalsEating CattleBaking BreadKneading Dough

The king replied to Absalom, “No, my son, we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he wasn’t willing to go, though he did bless him.

But Absalom urged him, so he sent Amnon and all the king’s sons.

The king said, "Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?" The woman answered, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right hand or to the left from anything that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab, he urged me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your handmaid;

Verse ConceptsSpokesmenTurning To Right And Left

(There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed to doing evil in the sight of the Lord, urged on by his wife Jezebel.

Verse ConceptsBad ExampleBad Wives ExamplesTemptressesUnique IndividualsNamed Wivesjezebel

And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.

Verse ConceptsembarrassmentFiftiesThree DaysNot Finding

It happened one day that Elisha passed through to Shunem where there [was] a wealthy woman, and she urged him to eat bread; so it happened each time he passed through, he would stop there to eat.

Verse ConceptsBedroomsHospitalityTravellers

But he said, As the LORD liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

Verse ConceptsFraudNot GivingNot Receiving

And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.

Verse ConceptsPeople Giving ClothesTwo Other ThingsCarrying Other LoadsTwo Other MenTalents

Meanwhile, Elisha urged the woman whose son he had restored to life, "You must get up and leave with your household to go live wherever you can, because the LORD has called for a famine, and it's going to come over the land for seven years."

Verse ConceptsFamine, Kinds OfSeven Years

And after certain years he went down to Ahab, to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that were with him, and urged him to go up against Ramoth-Gilead.

Verse ConceptsVisiting

The couriers went out, urged on by the king's command, and the edict was issued in Susa the capital. The king and Haman sat down to drink, while the city of Susa was thrown into confusion.

Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfPuzzlement

The couriers, mounted on the royal steeds, left quickly, urged on by the king's command. The edict was also issued in Susa the capital.

Verse ConceptsMules

“Then my cousin Hanamel came to the guard’s courtyard as the Lord had said and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’ Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsNegotiationRedemption, In Everyday Life

Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah had urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

Bible Theasaurus

Advocate (13 instances)
Barrack (1 instance)
Cheer (35 instances)
Exhort (44 instances)
Inspire (2 instances)
Press (49 instances)
Recommend (6 instances)
Urged (65 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אלץ 
'alats 
Usage: 1

חצף 
Chatsaph (Aramaic) 
Usage: 2

פּצר 
Patsar 
Usage: 7

ἐνέχω 
Enecho 
have a quarrel with , urge , entangle with
Usage: 3

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