23 occurrences

'Wet' in the Bible

And of Asher he said, Let Asher have the blessing of children; may he be pleasing to his brothers, and let his foot be wet with oil.

Verse ConceptsProvision Of OilCare Of FeetAcceptanceSons Being A Blessing

Now on the day after, Hazael took the bed-cover, and making it wet with water, put it over Ben-hadad's face, causing his death: and Hazael became king in his place.

Verse ConceptsMoist ThingsChokingKilling KingsCreatures Choked

Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?

Verse ConceptsPlantsReedsMarshesPlants Growing Up

They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.

Verse ConceptsProperty, HousesRocksThe HomelessMoist ThingsStones For ProtectionPurgatory

See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.

Verse ConceptsGodly Fear, DescriptionClayClay, Figurative UseLike People By NatureOther People Of God

It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

Verse ConceptsClaySealsHoly Spirit, Types OfClay, UsesSealing Things

Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.

Verse ConceptsThreshingThings UnderMarshes

The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

Verse ConceptsNightTirednessTearsTired In Activity

I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

Verse ConceptsNames And Titles For The Church

You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?

Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersClayPotterPotteryTurning Upside DownBeing Without UnderstandingMan's Relationship With His CreatorWeedatheismpot

And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual RenewalGrassPapyrusReedsPoolsMetaphorical Springs

I have sent for one from the north, and from the dawn he has come; in my name he will get rulers together and go against them; they will be like dust, even as the wet earth is stamped on by the feet of the potter.

Verse ConceptsClayeastCraftsmenPotterVictory, As An Act Of GodPotteryClay, UsesOut Of The North

Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersArguingClaySurrenderingPresumptionPotteryAuthority, Belonging To GodAnimositySuing GodWoe To The WickedMan's Relationship With His Creatorstriving

So they took Jeremiah and put him into the water-hole of Malchiah, the king's son, in the place of the armed watchmen: and they let Jeremiah down with cords. And in the hole there was no water, but wet earth: and Jeremiah went down into the wet earth.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsInjuryMonotonyPersecution, Forms OfPersecution, Nature OfPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRopesSuffering, Causes OfCisternsLowering PeopleMarshes

See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon's captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep into the wet earth, and they are turned away back from you.

Verse ConceptsMarshesMen DeceivingFriends Failing

She is sorrowing bitterly in the night, and her face is wet with weeping; among all her lovers she has no comforter: all her friends have been false to her, they have become her haters.

Verse ConceptsCheeksBetrayalNightFeelings Of Rejection By GodWeepingAfflictions, Consolation DuringHanding Over PeopleFriends FailingNo ComfortPeople Mourning Catastrophe

They are to have linen head-dresses on their heads and linen trousers on their legs, and they are to have nothing round them to make their skin wet with heat.

Verse ConceptsDressSweatTurban And CapsUndergarments

The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.

Verse ConceptsSaltRiver BanksMarshesSweetnessSourness

But keep its broken end and its roots still in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass; let him have the young grass of the field for food, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his part be with the beasts.

Verse ConceptsIronStumps Of A TreeIron ObjectsRelation Of Animals To Man

That they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and you will be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentdewGrassHistorySeven YearsPeople OstracisedRepulsive FoodMen Similar To AnimalsAuthorityDriven From Men

That very hour the order about Nebuchadnezzar was put into effect: and he was sent out from among men, and had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hair became long as eagles' feathers and his nails like those of birds.

Verse ConceptsMetamorphosisDiseases, Kinds OfSelf RespectAbaseBirds, Types Of BirdsCattleAbasement, Examples OfNailsFinger NailsSuddenlyLong HairPeople OstracisedRepulsive FoodEaglesDriven From Men

And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure.

Verse ConceptsChallengesdewGovernmentGrassPeople OstracisedRepulsive FoodMen Similar To AnimalsWild DonkeysAuthorityDriven From MenKnowing About God's Kingdom

Bible Theasaurus

Loaded (26 instances)
Moisture (8 instances)
Plastered (10 instances)
Smashed (40 instances)
Soaked (18 instances)
Stiff (24 instances)
Tight (14 instances)
Tipsy (1 instance)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain