89 occurrences in 12 translations

'Direct' in the Bible

The total number of persons belonging to Jacob—his direct descendants, not including the wives of Jacob’s sons—who came to Egypt: 66.

Verse ConceptsSixties

And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

"If a man strikes his male or female servant with a stick and he or she dies as a direct result, the master must be punished.

Verse ConceptsFloggingBeating PeopleManslaughterJudicial PunishmentStriking People With A StaffPropertyslaveryAbuseNervousness

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Come up unto Me to the mount, and be there, and I give to thee the tables of stone, and the law, and the command, which I have written to direct them.'

Verse ConceptsFinger Of GodGod, Will OfLaw, Ten CommandmentsMountainsStonesTabletsGoing Up MountainsThe Law Given By GodWood And StoneGod Writing With His Fingercommandments

'And to direct He hath put in his heart, he and Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan;

Verse ConceptsTeaching The Way Of God

to direct in the day of being unclean, and in the day of being clean; this is the law of the leprosy.'

Verse ConceptsClean And Uncleanmold

except for his direct relative closest to him: his mother and his father, and his son and his daughter, and his brother,

Verse ConceptsHonouring Parents

They may assist their brothers in the Tent of Meeting to keep an obligation, but they shall do no [heavy or difficult] work. Thus you shall deal with the Levites concerning their obligations.”

Verse ConceptsGroups Helping

Now the daughters of Hepher's son Zelophehad, Gilead's grandson, who had been fathered by Machir, who had been fathered by Manasseh, from the tribe of Manasseh, the direct son of Joseph, were named Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. They approached

and thou hast done according to the tenor of the word which they declare to thee (they of that place which Jehovah doth choose; and thou hast observed to do according to all that they direct thee.

Verse ConceptsKeeping Man's Word

'According to the tenor of the law which they direct thee, and according to the judgment which they say to thee thou dost do; thou dost not turn aside from the word which they declare to thee, right or left.

Verse ConceptsNot Turning AsideTurning To Right And LeftKeeping Man's Word

Gideon raised 70 sons as his direct descendants, since he had many wives.

Verse ConceptsPolygamySeventiesgideon

And Manoah maketh entreaty unto Jehovah, and saith, 'O, my Lord, the man of God whom Thou didst send, let him come in, I pray thee, again unto us, and direct us what we do to the youth who is born.'

Verse ConceptsGod TeachingMan Of GodNamed Individuals Who PrayedRaising Children

Then the Spirit of the Lord began to direct him in the Camp of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

Verse ConceptsInspiration Of The Holy Spirit, Means OfMoving On

Then Samuel told the whole house of Israel, "If you're returning to the LORD with all your heart, then remove the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, direct your hearts back to the LORD, and serve him only. Then he will deliver you from the control of the Philistines."

Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofCommitment, to Goddouble mindednessReformationSyncretismDivided HeartsUnquestioning ServiceReturning To GodWhole HeartednessIndividuals Saving OthersPutting Away Other GodsServing Asherah

My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place where you direct me, and I will have them broken up there, and you shall carry them away. Then you shall accomplish my desire by giving food to my household.”

Verse ConceptsRafts

"The time will come when the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, and turn away from their sin because you punish them,

Verse ConceptsLack Of RainSigns Of RepentanceSin Brings ImpoverishmentSin Producing Afflictions

When they hear about your great reputation and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds, they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfStrength Of God

"When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, and they direct their prayers to the Lord toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,

Verse ConceptsPrinciples Of WarA Place For God's Name

When they return to you with all their heart and being in the land where they are held prisoner, and direct their prayers to you toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor,

Verse ConceptsBuilding God's DwellingWhole HeartednessA Place For God's Name

And Ahab saith, 'By whom?' and he saith, 'Thus said Jehovah, By the young men of the heads of the provinces;' and he saith, 'Who doth direct the battle?' and he saith, 'Thou.'

Verse ConceptsCommanderOfficersWho Is The Doer?First To Fight

Chenaniah, the leader of the Levites in music, was to direct the music because he was skillful.

Verse ConceptsSingingSkillChoirsSingersPeople Teaching

David said, "Of these, 24,000 are to direct the work of the Lord's temple; 6,000 are to be officials and judges;

Verse ConceptsSix ThousandTwenty Thousand And Up

LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our ancestors, keep your purposes and thoughts constantly in the hearts of your people and direct their hearts toward you,

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersHeart, And Holy SpiritHeart, HumanLoyaltyHuman Desiresimagination

He assigned 70,000 of them to carry loads and 80,000 to quarry stone in the mountain, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.

Verse ConceptsMasonsStonesThree Thousand And UpFifty To Ninety Thousand

"The time will come when the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, and turn away from their sin because you punish them,

Verse ConceptsClosing Up

"Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your great reputation and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds; they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfForeignersArmsHand Of GodStrangers in israelAliens

"When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, and they direct their prayers to you toward this chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,

When they return to you with all their heart and being in the land where they are held prisoner and direct their prayers toward the land you gave to their ancestors, your chosen city, and the temple I built for your honor,

But the people conspired against him, and at the direct orders of the king they stoned him to death in the courtyard of the LORD's Temple.

Verse ConceptsCourtyardMartyrdom Of The SaintsDeath penaltyTrapConspiracy

In the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jehozadak began [their work], and the remainder of their brothers the priests and the Levites and all who came from the captivity to Jerusalem. They appointed the Levites {from twenty years and older} to direct the work of the house of Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsJudaismMaturity, PhysicalMiddle AgeTwentyAge Ranges Of Levites

For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has intermingled with the peoples of the lands. Indeed, the officials and chief men have been foremost in this unfaithful act and direct violation [of God’s will].”

Verse ConceptsMixing People

(His closest advisors were: Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven officials of Persia and Media who had direct access to the king and who held the highest rank in the kingdom.)

Verse ConceptsSeven People

let him not direct a rebuke toward me. I won't be responding to him with your arguments.

Verse ConceptsOthers Not Answering

Turn your footsteps [quickly] toward the perpetual ruins;The enemy has damaged everything within the sanctuary.

Verse ConceptsRuinsDestruction Of Jerusalemfootsteps

Teach me Your way, O Lord,I will walk and live in Your truth;Direct my heart to fear Your name [with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder].

Verse ConceptsWalking In The TruthKnowing God's WaysGuidance, Receiving God'sGod's WaysMotives, Importance OfWalkingGod TeachingWhole HeartednessGod's TruthBeing Devoted to GodPurityFocusdevotion

God is Jehovah, and He giveth to us light, Direct ye the festal-sacrifice with cords, Unto the horns of the altar.

Verse ConceptsHolidayHornsGod Giving LightSacrifice On The Bronze AltarBinding As AnimalsRegulating SacrificesThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

For evil's scepter will not rest on the land that has been allotted to the righteous, and so the righteous will not direct themselves to do wrong.

Verse ConceptsIniquity, Believer's Relation ToWicked RulersRighteous, TheSceptreRestwickedness

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

Verse ConceptsGod's WaysThe Insecurity Of The WickedDistinctives Of Righteousnesswickedness

Thou, my son, hear and be wise, and direct thy heart in the way.

Verse ConceptsWisdom, Human Importance

If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

Verse ConceptsAxesSharpeningBenefits Of WisdomSuccess Through GodSuccess And Hard Workenergy

[Direct those people] to the law and to the testimony! If their teachings are not in accord with this word, it is because they have no dawn.

Verse ConceptsFalse ProphetsStudyOvertaken By DarknessExcellent LawLighttestimony

The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct the path of the just.

Verse ConceptsGod, Perfection OfPaths Of BelieversUprightnessStraight PathsSmoothnessSmoothPathsweight

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.

Verse ConceptsBuilding CitiesVictory, As An Act Of GodStraight PathsFree Of Chargefree

For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Verse ConceptsCovenant, the newGod, Justice OfHatredJusticeRobberyDo Not StealGod Will RequiteLater Covenants With GodInjustice

“How well you prepare your pathTo seek and obtain [adulterous] love!Even the most wicked of womenHave learned [indecent] ways from you.

Verse ConceptsSkillDegradationDecadenceMisteachingFinding Lovelovers

Jehovah said, Did I not direct thee for good? Did not I intercede for thee in a time of evil, And in a time of adversity, with the enemy?

Verse ConceptsProtection From EnemiesGetting Through Hard Times

“Set up for yourself roadmarks,Place for yourself guideposts;Direct your mind to the highway,The way by which you went.Return, O virgin of Israel,Return to these your cities.

Verse ConceptsHighwayReturning to their landHighwaysroadblocksvirginity

“Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and direct your [prophetic] word against the sanctuaries; prophesy against the land of Israel

Verse ConceptsProphesy!

Turn O sword and cut right or cut left, whichever way your thirst for blood and your edge direct you.

Verse ConceptsRight Sides

I will direct my jealous anger against you, and they will deal with you in rage. They will cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors will die by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your survivors will be consumed by fire.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGod, Zeal OfJealousyMutilationNosesDisfigurementSurvivors DestroyedKilled With The SwordBurning PeopleChildren SufferingSevering Body Parts

He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his iron tools.

Verse ConceptsAxesBattering ramsTowers

Therefore, look! I'm bringing foreigners in your direction, the most terrifying of nations! They will direct their violence against the grandeur that you've created by your wisdom.

Verse ConceptsForeignersSuffering From ForeignersLosing HonourPeople Without Mercy

for ships of Chittim shall come against him; and he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation against the holy covenant; and will practise; and he shall return and direct his attention to those that forsake the holy covenant.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentSeafaringShipsShips For AttackingBreaking The CovenantAngry PeopleCovenant Made At Sinaiventing

They feed on the sin of My peopleAnd direct their desire toward their iniquity.

Verse ConceptsContinuing In Sin

“Speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah, saying, ‘I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.

Verse ConceptsGod ShakingThe Universe Destroyed

This is the one who was mentioned by the prophet Isaiah when he said,“The voice of one shouting in the wilderness,‘Prepare the road for the Lord,Make His highways straight (level, direct)!’”

Verse ConceptsDesertsJohn The BaptistWildernessMessiahStraight PathsIndividuals ShoutingMaking RoadsIn Order Of RankScriptures FulfilledNamed Prophets Of The LordPaths

Leave both to grow together until the harvest, and at harvest-time I will direct the reapers, Collect the darnel first, and make it up into bundles to burn it, but bring all the wheat into my barn.'"

Verse ConceptsBinding cornHarvestSicklesBindingEternal JudgmentMixed MultitudeJoining ThingsGathering FoodBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesPlants Growing UpGrowing

Now the betrayer had agreed upon a sign with them, to direct them. He had said, "The one whom I kiss is the man: lay hold of him."

Verse ConceptsKissing ChristJudas Betraying ChristArresting ChristSigns Attending Christtraitors

He also told them a parable: “Can a blind man guide [another] blind man? Will they not both fall into a hole in the ground?

Verse ConceptsFools, In Teaching Of Jesus ChristDitchesBlindness, SymbolicPitsParables Of ChristPeople Falling From A HeightHoles In The GroundBlindness

'The tabernacle of the testimony was among our fathers in the wilderness, according as He did direct, who is speaking to Moses, to make it according to the figure that he had seen;

Verse ConceptsDivine PlansDesignThe Tabernacle

But some of the sect of the Pharisees who had believed stood up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to direct them to observe the Law of Moses.”

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessCircumcision, physicalBelieversHeresiesJudaismSectsNecessity Of CircumcisionThose Who Believed In ChristKeep The Commandments!pharisees

So setting sail from Troas, we ran a direct course to Samothrace, and the next day [went on] to Neapolis;

Verse ConceptsIslandsSeafaringThe Next Daysailing

After we tore ourselves away from them and set sail, we came by a direct route to Cos, the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

Verse ConceptsIslandsStraight Pathssailinggoodbyes

It took several days of slow sailing for us to come with difficulty off Cnidus; from which point, as the wind did not allow us to get on in the direct course, we ran under the lee of Crete by Salmone.

Verse ConceptsSlownessHard Tasks

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building upon [it]. But each one must direct his attention to how he is building upon [it].

Verse ConceptsFoundationsCraftsmenGrace, And Christian LifePaul, Apostle To GentilesGod, Grace OfNames And Titles For The ChurchThe Foundation Of The ChurchBuilding Up The ChurchTaking HeedThe Grace Given To MenWise Men In The Churchconstruction

For even if you were to have ten thousand teachers [to guide you] in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers [who led you to Christ and assumed responsibility for you], for I became your father in Christ Jesus through the good news [of salvation].

Verse ConceptsGuardsPaul, Apostle To GentilesNew Birth, The Means OfSpiritual FathersFathers BirthdayparentingDadsSchoolParenting Responsibilities

if not, as God did distribute to each, as the Lord hath called each -- so let him walk; and thus in all the assemblies do I direct:

Verse ConceptsOrderliness In Personal DevotionWork, As Ordained By GodChurch OrderAssignmentThe churchChurch Of GodLife PurposeServing The Church

For [godly] sorrow that is in accord with the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation; but worldly sorrow [the hopeless sorrow of those who do not believe] produces death.

Verse ConceptsContritionGuilt, Human Aspects OfRevelation, Responses ToSin, Accepting Forgiveness OfAttitudes Of RepentanceChanged HeartHow Death Is InevitableRepentanceSigns Of RepentanceThe Gospel Of SalvationRegrettingConvictionSin Producing Afflictionsgrieving

For indeed I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a [direct] revelation of Jesus Christ.

Verse ConceptsKnowing God, Nature OfMaking Christ KnownEducationPositive Thinkingdiscriminationmanchrist

and that by [divine] revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I have already written in brief.

Verse ConceptsGod Revealing MysteriesConcisenessWriting Letters

And tell Archippus, "Direct your attention to the ministry that you received in the Lord, in order that you may complete it."

Verse ConceptsThe Completion Of RedemptionCompletionMinistry, In The ChurchAdmonition, Of ChristiansTaking HeedMan's Work FinishedMinistry

Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.

Verse ConceptsTrinity

Now if we put the bits into the horses’ mouths so that they will obey us, we direct their entire body as well.

Verse ConceptsBinding As AnimalsOther References To MouthsThe TongueDirectionobeying

Bible Theasaurus

Address (23 instances)
Bead (1 instance)
Calculate (7 instances)
Command (517 instances)
Conduct (150 instances)
Convince (15 instances)
Direct (89 instances)
Directly (56 instances)
Govern (33 instances)
Manage (14 instances)
Organize (1 instance)
Steer (1 instance)
Straight (220 instances)
Target (19 instances)
Train (18 instances)

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
הגין 
Hagiyn 
Usage: 1

ירא ירה 
Yarah 
Usage: 83

ישׁר 
Yashar 
Usage: 26

כּוּן 
Kuwn 
Usage: 217

כּשׁר 
Kasher 
Usage: 3

נכח 
Nokach 
against , before , directly , for , on , over
Usage: 24

ערך 
`arak 
Usage: 76

תּכן 
Takan 
Usage: 18

κατευθύνω 
Kateuthuno 
Usage: 3

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