'Used' in the Bible

His sons used to take turns having banquets at their homes. They would send an invitation to their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

{Then when} the days of the feast had run their course, {Job would send}, and he would sanctify them. Thus he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings [according to] the number of all of them, because Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and {cursed} God in their heart." This is what Job used to do {all the time}.

along with kings and counselors of the earth, who used to build for themselves what are now only ruins,

He has no children or descendants among his people,no survivor where he used to live.

he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say, 'Where is he?'

"I wish I could go back to how things were a few months ago; when God used to watch over me,

when his lamp used to shine over my head, so I could walk through the dark,

"I used to say: "I will die in my home. I'm going to live as many days as there are grains of sand on the shore.

My lyre is used for mourningand my flute for the sound of weeping. >

They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.