106 occurrences in 12 translations

'Beneath' in the Bible

So God made a canopy that separated the water beneath the canopy from the water above it. And that is what happened:

Verse ConceptsBefore The FloodThings UnderWaters DividingThings On HighWhat Else God CreatedAtmospheredivisionspacecrusadesThe Vastness Of Nature

Then God said, "Let the water beneath the sky come together into one area, and let dry ground appear!" And that is what happened:

Verse ConceptsContinentsDry LandCreation Of The EarthGod SpeakingThe OceanGod's Creationcrusades

Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and got up and went on his way. In this way Esau scorned his birthright.

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodVegetablesThose Who Provided A Meallent

But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfNursesTreesOaksMourning Death

From the God of your father who helps you,And by the Almighty who blesses youWith blessings of heaven above,Blessings of the deep that lies beneath,Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

Verse ConceptsBlessings, To IsraelWombGod Will BlessGod HelpsBlessings From GodThe Environmentbreasts

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

Verse ConceptsGod, As Spiritethics, personalIdolsIdolatry Consists OfCarvingLike CreaturesAvoiding IdolatrySecond CommandmentSelf ImageTaking Care Of The Earthstatuesimage

and they saw the God of Israel. Beneath His feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire stone, as clear as the sky itself.

Verse ConceptsFeetSkyTheophanyColors, BluePrecious StonesThose Who Saw GodPavementsClean ObjectsSky, Figurative UseJewellery And GodPurityThe Rainbow

And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

Verse ConceptsCornersDoubled OverBeing Single

And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar.

Verse ConceptsHalf Of Things

and thou hast made two rings of gold, and hast put them on the two shoulders of the ephod, beneath, over-against its front, over-against its joining, above the girdle of the ephod,

Verse ConceptsShoulder PiecesGold Items For The Tabernacl

“And you shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

Verse ConceptsColors, BlueBlue Cloth

And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:

Verse ConceptsBellsPomegranatesRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothGold Items For The TabernaclBlue Purple And Scarlet

And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.

Verse ConceptsDoubled Over

And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.

Verse ConceptsHalf Of ThingsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

The priest will make an examination, and if the spot seems to be beneath the skin and the hair in it has turned white, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a skin disease that has broken out in the boil.

Verse ConceptsThe Hair Of The BodyWhite Hair

But when the priest examines it, if there is no white hair in it, and it is not beneath the skin but is faded, the priest must quarantine him seven days.

Verse ConceptsShallownessSeven DaysThe Hair Of The BodyWhite HairSeven Days For Legal Purposes

But when the priest examines it, if there is no white hair in the spot and it is not beneath the skin but is faded, the priest must quarantine him seven days.

Verse ConceptsShallownessSeven DaysThe Hair Of The BodyWhite HairSeven Days For Legal Purposes

He will examine it, and if the contamination in the walls of the house consists of green or red indentations that appear to be beneath the surface of the wall,

Verse ConceptsGreenRed Parts Of The BodyDepressionmold

"Every single Israeli is to encamp beneath his standard with the emblem of his ancestral house. The Israelis are to encamp in front of and surrounding the Tent of Meeting."

Verse ConceptsBanners, Literal UseWeights And Measures, DistancesFlags

The Nazirite will shave off [the hair of] {his consecrated head} [at] the doorway of the tent of assembly, and he will take the hair of {his consecrated head}, and he will put [it] on the fire that [is] beneath the sacrifice of the fellowship offering.

Verse ConceptsHairsShavingBurning Sacrifices

Just as he finished speaking all these words, the ground beneath them split open.

Verse ConceptsThe Ground Being Split

The Arabah and the Jordan River were also a border, from the sea of Chinnereth to the sea of the Arabah (that is, the Salt Sea), beneath the watershed of Pisgah to the east.

Verse ConceptsDead Sea

The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

Verse ConceptsGod, Present EverywhereGod, Sovereignty OfGod, Uniqueness OfOrthodoxy, In OtNo Other Is GodThe Lord Is GodThe Lord [Yahweh] Is God

including all the Arabah of the Transjordan in the east to the sea of the Arabah, beneath the watershed of Pisgah.)

Verse ConceptsDead SeaBeyond Jordan

Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

Verse Conceptsethics, personalIdolatry Consists OfLike CreaturesAvoiding Idolatryimage

And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:

Verse ConceptsTailsHead As ChiefKeep The Commandments!Never Giving Up

And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,

Verse Conceptsdew

And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.

Verse ConceptsGod, Sovereignty OfHeart, HumanHuman EmotionBraveryLosing CourageThe Lord [Yahweh] Is GodCourageCourage And Strength

So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

Verse ConceptsTrumpetTrumpets For BattleSending people homegideon

He parted the heavens and came down,a dark cloud beneath His feet.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfGod Going Down

I wipe them out and crush them,and they do not rise;they fall beneath my feet.

Verse ConceptsFeetDownfallPeople Overcoming

The God who keeps on avenging me, subjugating people beneath me,

Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:

and knops beneath its brim round about are compassing it, ten by the cubit, going round the sea round about; in two rows are the knops, cast in its being cast.

Verse ConceptsSculptureThings SurroundingTwo Plant Products

And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.

Verse ConceptsLionsCherubim Depicted

Each cart had four bronze wheels equipped with bronze axles with four support feet. Beneath the basin were cast support structures made like wreaths on each side.

Verse ConceptsBasinsWheelsFour SupportsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

The priests brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the most holy place beneath the wings of the cherubim.

Verse ConceptsSanctuaryThe Ark In The Temple

And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:

Verse ConceptsGod, Uniqueness OfGod's WaysLoyaltyMonotheismNo One Is Like GodGod Keeps Covenant

For they also built for themselves high places and sacred pillars and Asherim on every high hill and beneath every luxuriant tree.

Verse ConceptsHillsSacred PlacesPolytheismObelisksServing Asherah

When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes—now he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body.

Verse ConceptsBodySackcloth And AshesThose Who Tore Clothes

And it hath continued -- The escaped of the house of Judah That hath been left -- to take root beneath, And hath made fruit upward.

Verse ConceptsRootsSurvivors FavouredPotential Of FruitGod's People Planted

Underneath, figurines resembling oxen encircled the circular sea beneath it, ten oxen every cubit, and encircling the sea completely. The oxen were in two rows, cast all at the same time.

Verse ConceptsSculpture

The priests brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the most holy place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.

Verse ConceptsSanctuary

And Hezekiah himself hath stopped the upper source of the waters of Gihon, and directeth them beneath to the west of the city of David, and Hezekiah prospereth in all his work;

Verse ConceptsWater Irrigation

But {he considered it beneath him} to lay hands on Mordecai only, for they told him of Mordecai's people, and Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who [were] in the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

Verse ConceptsVindictivenessJews Under ThreatKilling IsraelitesIdentity

God does not hold back His anger;Rahab’s assistants cringe in fear beneath Him!

Verse ConceptsHumbling The Proud

His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

Verse ConceptsPeople Withered

The departed spirits tremblebeneath the waters and all that inhabit them.

Verse ConceptsAgony, DeathState Of The Dead

They bray among the shrubs;they huddle beneath the thistles.

Verse ConceptsNettles

He lets it loose beneath the entire sky;His lightning to the ends of the earth.

Verse ConceptsLightningFlat Earth

"Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds; he tears through muddy ground like a threshing sledge through grain.

Verse ConceptsThreshingThings UnderMarshes

I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.

Verse ConceptsNightTirednessTearsTired In Activity

He parted the heavens and came down,a dark cloud beneath His feet.

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions OfGod Going Downclouds

I crush them, and they cannot get up;they fall beneath my feet.

Verse ConceptsDownfallPeople Overcomingcrushes

He subdued nations beneath us and countries under our feet.

Verse ConceptsFeetAll Enemies Under God's Feet

“Who is this coming up from the wildernessLeaning on her beloved?” “Beneath the apple tree I awakened you;There your mother was in labor with you,There she was in labor and gave you birth.

Verse ConceptsApplesOther Supporting

Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheGreetingsSpiritsThroneDeath Of The Wickedwelcome

Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the noise of your harps. Maggots are spread out beneath you, and worms are your covering."

Verse ConceptsHarpsCovering The BodyMusical Instruments, types ofHumbling The ProudPeople Eaten By WormMaggotsNo Musicworms

The earth lies defiled beneath its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

Verse ConceptsCovenant breakersCovenant, God's with NoahGod, The EternalEcological ConcernsPolluting The LandBreaking The CovenantBreaking God's LawDefilement

For the LORD's power will rest on this mountain, but the Moabites will be trodden down beneath him, just as straw is trodden down in the slime of a manure pit.

Verse Conceptsdung and manureStrawThe Prophecy Towards EdomGod's HandTrampling PeopleDefecationGod's Hands In Opposition

Then you [Jerusalem] will be brought low,You will speak from the earth,And from the dust where you lie face downYour muffled words will come.Your voice will also be like that of a spirit from the earth [like one produced by a medium],And your speech will whisper and squeak from the dust.

Verse ConceptsNecromancyAbasing PeopleSpeechghostsdust

And it hath continued -- the escaped Of the house of Judah that hath been left -- To take root beneath, And it hath made fruit upward.

Verse ConceptsSurvivors FavouredPotential Of FruitGod's People Planted

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

Verse ConceptsFailture, God Will Nevereternity, nature ofAstronomyInsectsEarth, Destruction OfSmokeEcological ConcernsImputed RighteousnessSalvation, Described AsEternal DeliveranceThe Universe DestroyedDisappearanceThings Wearing OutLooking At God's WorksAbrasionSmoke Used Poetically

Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

Verse ConceptsHeaven, Nature OfEarth's FoundationFinding ThingsGod Not ForsakingThe EarthRejectionisraelexploringmeasurement

So Ebed-melech took the men under his authority and went into the king’s palace to a place beneath the storeroom and took from there worn-out clothes and worn-out rags and let them down by ropes into the cistern to Jeremiah.

Verse ConceptsDungeonsPutting Things Down

The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve brazen oxen that are beneath the bases, that king Solomon made for the house of Jehovah, there was no weighing of the brass of all these vessels.

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveAnimals, Types OfTwo Parts Of ConstructionsTwelve Animals

ל LamedCrushing all the prisoners of the landbeneath one’s feet,

Verse ConceptsFeetTrampling Peoplecrushes

The Lord spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with hot coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” So he went in as I watched.

Verse ConceptsLinenWheelsCherubim

These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the Chebar Canal, and I recognized that they were cherubim.

Verse ConceptsCosmic CreaturesRecognising People

Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and beneath their wings was the form of human hands.

Verse ConceptsAngels HandsHeavenly FacesAngel's WingsPeople Are The SameFour Other ThingsLike Men

I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it, and you will know that I am the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsDestruction Of The WickedFoundations Of NationsPlasterThings StrippedWhitewashingMoral Decay

All the birds of the skynested in its branches,and all the animals of the fieldgave birth beneath its boughs;all the great nations lived in its shade.

Verse ConceptsNestsAnimal ReproductionBirds

As a result, none of its watered trees will grow tall, their tops will never reach to the clouds, and they'll never grow so high again, because all of them have been appointed to death in the world beneath where human beings go, that is, down to the Pit.'"

Verse ConceptsPitsSon Of ManGoing Down To The PitHow Death Is InevitableThings On HighWhy It Happened

I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I made it go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadGroups TremblingMetaphorical TreesHuman Comfort

“To which among the trees of Eden are you thus equal in glory and greatness? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth beneath; you will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who were slain by the sword. So is Pharaoh and all his hordes!”’ declares the Lord God.”

Verse ConceptsUncircumcisionDeath Of CreaturesThings Like PeopleDying With The UncircumcisedPutting Things Down

After this, he brought me back to the doorway to the Temple. To my amazement, there was water flowing out toward the east from beneath the threshold of the Temple! (The Temple faced eastward.) The water flowed down from beneath the right side of the Temple, that is, from the south-facing side where the altar was located.

Verse ConceptsProphetic VisionsFacing Eastpotential

The people will return and live beneath his shade.They will grow grainand blossom like the vine.His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

Verse ConceptsGrainShadowsVinesRemembering Peoplerevival

The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

Verse ConceptsBarnsGrainStoringTitles And Names Of Ministers

Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

Verse ConceptsAmoritesCedarRootsGiantsOaks

“Behold, I am weighted down beneath youAs a wagon is weighted down when filled with sheaves.

Verse ConceptsCrushingAccidentsCartsHeavy BurdensReapingOverloadcrushes

The mountains will melt beneath Him,and the valleys will split apart,like wax near a fire,like water cascading down a mountainside.

Verse ConceptsMeltingWaxFire Emanating From GodThe Ground Being Split

Instead, each man will sit in the shade of his grape vines and beneath the shade of his fig tree," since theLORD of the Heavenly Armies has spoken.

Verse ConceptsAffluenceInvitationsRest, PhysicalSittingVinesTreesSitting In SecurityFreed From FearGod As A Warrior

I heard and I trembled within. My lips quivered at the noise. My legs gave way beneath me, and I trembled. Nevertheless, I await the day of distress that will dawn on our invaders.

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanLegsLipsWaitingPeople RottingIndividuals TremblingBonesSoundPeople WaitingNations Attacking IsraelHealing CancerNatural Disasters

And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest:

Verse ConceptsCourtyard

Jesus replied, “Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe [in Me]? You will see greater things than this.”

Verse ConceptsChrist SeeingReasons For Faith In ChristMore ThanWhy It Happened

And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

Verse ConceptsWorldlinessThe I Am's Of ChristThings UnderChrist And HeavenPerspective

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Root Form
Definition
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מטּה 
Mattah 
Usage: 19

רבץ 
Rabats 
Usage: 30

κάτω κατωτέρω 
Kato 
Usage: 10

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