17 occurrences

'Wide' in the Bible

The feast-day dresses, and the robes, and the wide skirts, and the handbags,

Verse ConceptsMantlesPursesRich ApparelDressDistinctive ClothingMoney Box

For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheThe Glory Of ManThe Fact Of Death

And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesExile In Prospect

For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.

Verse ConceptsPruningKnivesToolsCutting Off Branches

Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you out into a wide country: there you will come to your end, and there will be the carriages of your pride, O shame of your lord's house!

Verse ConceptsTrusting In ChariotsRollingShame Has Come

You have made the nation great, O Lord, you have made it great; glory is yours: you have made wide the limits of the land.

Verse ConceptsBoundariesEnlargementGod Multipling People

For the bed is not long enough for a man to be stretched out on: and the cover is not wide enough for him to be covered with.

Verse ConceptsCovering The BodyNarrownessAccommodationsSmall ThingsBeds

And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

Verse ConceptsFutureCowsBreadthSowing And ReapingWeather, God's Sovereignty OverGifts From God, TemporalLand ProducingGod Sending RainGod Feeds All The EarthPlanting SeedsSeedsspringtimesowing

For a place of fire has long been ready; yes, it has been made ready for the king; he has made it deep and wide: it is massed with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of fire, puts a light to it.

Verse ConceptsPitsTheophanyBrimstonePreparation For BurialSulphurA Place Prepared

But there the Lord will be with us in his glory, ... wide rivers and streams; where no boat will go with blades, and no fair ship will be sailing.

Verse ConceptsBreadthShipssailing

For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.

Verse ConceptsWaste Places RestoredFar From Here

The children to whom you gave birth in other lands will say in your ears, The place is not wide enough for me: make room for me to have a resting-place.

Verse Conceptsspace

Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords long, and your tent-pins strong.

Verse ConceptsDevelopmentStretching OutRopesCordsEnlargementSpiritual ProgressPegsspacecredibility

For I will make wide your limits on the right hand and on the left; and your seed will take the nations for a heritage, and make the waste towns full of people.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingCities In IsraelMaking Decisionslimitationscredibility

Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

Verse ConceptsMockeryNosesTongueInfidelity To GodDisdainChildren Of EvilScoffersThe TongueSportsFunrebellion

And on the back of the doors and on the pillars you have put your sign: for you have been false to me with another; you have made your bed wide, and made an agreement with them; you had a desire for their bed where you saw it

Verse ConceptsCoveringNakednessPagansBedsmanhood

Bible Theasaurus

All-Embracing (1 instance)
Astray (134 instances)
Blanket (6 instances)
Encompassing (6 instances)
Extensive (21 instances)
Spacious (12 instances)
Widely (17 instances)

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