'Seemed' in the Bible

Jacob served seven years for Rachel, but it seemed like only a few days because of his love for her.

Because this suggestion seemed good to me, I chose twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.

So the sun remained still and the moon stood in place until the nation settled their score with their enemies. This is recorded, is it not, in the book of Jashar? The sun stood in place in the middle of the sky and seemed not to be in a hurry to set for nearly an entire day.

The Midianites, the Amalekites, and certain groups from the east lay encamped in the valley, as thick as locusts. The number of their camels couldn't be calculated they seemed as numerous as the sand on the seashore.

Back in those days, Israel didn't yet have a king, so each person did whatever seemed right in his own opinion.

Back in those days, Israel didn't yet have a king, so each person did whatever seemed right in his own opinion.

Abner also addressed the tribe of Benjamin. Furthermore, with David's permission, Abner said anything that seemed like it would be good for Israel and for the entire tribe of Benjamin.

Even though this plan seemed like a good idea to Absalom and to all of the elders of Israel,

This decision seemed to be a good one in the opinion of the king and of the entire assembly,

This seemed like a good idea to the king and his officials, so the king did what Memucan suggested.

I also observed this example of wisdom on earth, and it seemed important to me:

But the vessel he was working on with the clay was ruined in the potter's hand. So he remade it into another vessel that seemed appropriate to him.

"I found Israel, as one finds grapes in the wilderness; Your ancestors seemed to me like the fruit gleaned from a fig tree's first harvest. When they went to Baal-peor, they devoted themselves to that filth, and they became loathsome, like what they loved.

Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorites in front of them, though their height seemed like a cedar, though their strength seemed like an oak, but whose fruit I destroyed from above and the roots from beneath.

Then the LORD sent a great wind over the sea, and a severe storm broke out. It seemed as if the ship were about to break up.

But what they said seemed nonsense to them, so they did not believe them.

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to place on you any burden but these essential requirements: