1098 occurrences

'Us' in the Bible

And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheKnowledge, Of SinKnowledge Of Good And EvilUniquenessGod, TrinityImmortality, In OtSeeking LifeMetaphorical TreesArrogantly Like GodGraspingKnowing Right And WrongMen As GodsNot For EverPeople With Knowledgepotentialautonomy

And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.

Verse ConceptsCurses, DivineAgriculture, Effects Of FallImperfection, Influence OfPunishment, Nature OfWork, And The FallTypes Of ChristComfort, Of FriendsGod CursingThe Fact Of ToilPeople With Apt NamesAgriculture

And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.

Verse ConceptsBricksequipping, physicalBakingBuilding

Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.

Verse ConceptsGod, TrinityWorldly AmbitionLanguages ConfusedGod Going DownNot Understanding LanguageLanguages SeparatedLanguageThe TongueBeing DifferentSpeech

Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.

Verse ConceptsPeople PartingTurning To Right And Left

And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them.

Verse ConceptsSelf IndulgenceVulgarityHomosexualitySexual Union IntendedWhere Are People?sex

For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.

Verse ConceptsAngels as agents of judgmentSodom And GomorrahReprobatesGod Sending ProphetsOutcry

And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously.

Verse ConceptsBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningJestingPowerlessnessSkepticismSons In Lawjoking

And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way:

Verse ConceptsAbsence Of SexFirstborn DaughtersNo One AvailableUnpremeditatedFather And Daughter Relationships

Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father,

Verse ConceptsCourteousnessgrandfathers

And on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father.

Verse ConceptsFirstborn Daughters

Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things which are not to be done.

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Kings SummoningWe Have SinnedWhat Sin?

My lord, truly you are a great chief among us; take the best of our resting-places for your dead; not one of us will keep back from you a place where you may put your dead to rest.

Verse ConceptsPrincesAbraham, In SocietySepulchresConsentThe Cave Of MachpelahBurying places

And said to her, Whose daughter are you? is there room in your father's house for us?

Verse ConceptsWho Is This?Staying TemporarilyFathers And Daughters

Then Laban and Bethuel said in answer, This is the Lord's doing: it is not for us to say Yes or No to you.

Verse ConceptsGod In Relation To ManUnable To Harm

But her brother and her mother said, Let the girl be with us a week or ten days, and then she may go.

Verse ConceptsTen Or More DaysPeople Who Delayed

And said to the servant, Who is that man coming to us through the field? And the servant said, It is my master: then she took her veil, covering her face with it.

Verse ConceptsCoveringVeilsMeeting PeopleWho Is This?The Brides Wedding Dress

Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours.

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?

And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are stronger than we are.

Then he went away from there, and made another water-hole, about which there was no fighting: so he gave it the name of Rehoboth, for he said, Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will have fruit in this land.

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialExcavationPotential Of FruitSpacious PlacePeople Naming ThingsFreedomMoving To A New Placespacefruitfulnessland

And they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with you: so we said, Let there be an oath between us and you, and let us make an agreement with you;

Verse ConceptsGod With Specific People

That you will do us no damage, even as we put no hand on you, and did you nothing but good, and sent you away in peace: and now the blessing of the Lord is on you.

Verse ConceptsNames And Titles For The ChristianNot TouchingGoing In PeaceBlessed By God

Then Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or heritage is there for us in our father's house?

Verse ConceptsNot Sharing

Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us and now it is all used up.

Verse ConceptsReckoningReckoned As Foreigners

As for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put to death: make search before us all for what is yours, and take it. For Jacob had no knowledge that Rachel had taken them.

Verse ConceptsApproval To KillRobbing GodsIn Men's Presence

Now that you have made search through all my goods, what have you seen which is yours? Make it clear now before my people and your people, so that they may be judges between us.

Verse ConceptsNot FindingIn Men's Presence

Come, let us make an agreement, you and I; and let it be for a witness between us.

Verse ConceptsCovenant RelationshipsThings As WitnessesUnable To Do Other Thingscovenant

And Mizpah, for he said, May the Lord keep watch on us when we are unable to see one another's doings.

Verse ConceptsGod Keeping WatchPeople Parting

If you are cruel to my daughters, or if you take other wives in addition to my daughters, then though no man is there to see, God will be the witness between us.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersPolygamyWitnesses, LegalAppealing To GodThe Witness Of GodPeople Possibly Doing Evil

Then say to him, These are your servant Jacob's; they are an offering for my lord, for Esau; and he himself is coming after us.

And you are to say further, Jacob, your servant, is coming after us. For he said to himself, I will take away his wrath by the offering which I have sent on, and then I will come before him: it may be that I will have grace in his eyes.

And he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front.

Verse ConceptsIn Front

And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.

Verse ConceptsTradeLiving In The LandProperty

And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us:

Verse ConceptsForeskinsUncircumcisionImpossible For PeopleNamed SistersUnable To Do Other Things

But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;

Verse ConceptsAgreementBecoming Like PeopleConsentNecessity Of Circumcision

Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on living with you as one people.

Verse ConceptsUnified PeopleLiving In The Land

It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.

Verse ConceptsMoney, Stewardship OfLiving In The LandMen Of Peace

But these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to become one people, only on the condition that every male among us undergoes circumcision as they have done.

Verse ConceptsUnified PeopleBecoming Like PeopleConsentLiving In The LandNecessity Of Circumcision

Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.

Verse ConceptsLiving In The LandTaking Possession

And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.

Verse ConceptsDistressGod AnsweredGod Has Been With YouGod With Specific People

And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became greater than ever.

Verse ConceptsHating Individualsdominion

And the man said, They have gone away from here, for they said in my hearing, Let us go to Dothan. So Joseph went after them and came up with them at Dothan.

Verse ConceptsShepherds, As Occupations

Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams.

Verse ConceptsAnimals Eating PeopleWild Animals DevouringAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleUnfulfilled Word

But Reuben, hearing these words, got him out of their hands, saying, Let us not take his life.

Verse ConceptsRestraints From KillingIndividuals Saving Others

Let us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let us not put violent hands on him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers gave ear to him.

Verse ConceptsCommerceSame Bone And Flesh

She sent for the men of her house and said to them, See, he has let a Hebrew come here and make sport of us; he came to my bed, and I gave a loud cry;

Verse ConceptsSexual Union IntendedMisleading Children

Then they said to him, We have had a dream, and no one is able to give us the sense. And Joseph said, Does not the sense of dreams come from God? what was your dream?

Verse ConceptsDreamsNo One AvailableTelling Dreams

And we had a dream on the same night, the two of us, and the dreams had a special sense.

And there was with us a young Hebrew, the captain's servant, and when we put our dreams before him, he gave us the sense of them.

Verse ConceptsTelling Dreams

And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.

Verse ConceptsVisitingKept Alive By Men

Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.

Verse ConceptsThe Youngest ChildIndividuals Passing AwayTwelve BeingsPassing Awayvulnerability

And they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our brother, for we saw his grief of mind, and we did not give ear to his prayers; that is why this trouble has come on us.

Verse ConceptsGuilty ConsciencesGuilt, Human Aspects OfAfflicted Saints, Examples OfFound GuiltyPeople Without MercyWhy It HappenedHuman Awareness Of Guilt

And Reuben said to them, Did I not say to you, Do the child no wrong? but you gave no attention; so now, punishment has come on us for his blood.

Verse ConceptsBlood, as symbol of guiltJudgement On MurderersWronging Other Peopleaccounting

And he said to his brothers, My money has been given back: it is in my bag; then their hearts became full of fear, and turning to one another they said, What is this which God has done to us?

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman EmotionIndividuals TremblingWhat Does God Do?Indeterminate Sums Of MoneyOther Sad People

The man who is the ruler of the country was rough with us and put us in prison, saying that we had come with a secret evil purpose.

Verse ConceptsSpying

And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food.

Verse ConceptsBuying FoodEnd Of Actions

And Judah said to him, The man said to us with an oath, You are not to come before me again without your brother.

Verse ConceptsNot With People

If you will let our brother go with us, we will go down and get food:

Verse ConceptsGoing Together

But if you will not send him, we will not go down: for the man said to us, You are not to come before me if your brother is not with you.

Verse ConceptsNot With People

And they said, The man put a number of questions to us about ourselves and our family, saying, Is your father still living? have you another brother? And we had to give him answers; how were we to have any idea that he would say, Come back with your brother?

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular QuestionsAnswering PeopleNot Knowing The FutureLiving On

Then Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the boy with me, and let us be up and going, so that we and you and our little ones may not come to destruction.

Verse ConceptsGoing TogetherKept Alive By Men

Now the men were full of fear because they had been taken into Joseph's house and they said, It is because of the money which was put back in our bags the first time; he is looking for something against us, so that he may come down on us and take us and our asses for his use.

Verse ConceptsIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyLoss Of DonkeysWhy People Did ThingsFear Of Individuals

And when we came to our night's resting-place, on opening our bags we saw that every man's money was in the mouth of his bag, all our money in full weight: and we have it with us to give it back;

Verse ConceptsInnsThe Act Of OpeningOpening ContainersStaying Temporarily

Then, after washing his face, he came out, and controlling his feelings said, Put food before us.

Verse ConceptsClean Faces

Then Judah came near him, and said, Let your servant say a word in my lord's ears, and let not your wrath be burning against your servant: for you are in the place of Pharaoh to us.

Verse ConceptsEquivalent People

And our father said, Go again and get us a little food.

Verse ConceptsBuying Food

And we said, Only if our youngest brother goes with us will we go down; for we may not see the man's face again if our youngest brother is not with us.

Verse ConceptsNot With People

And our father said to us, You have knowledge that my wife gave me two sons;

Verse ConceptsTwo Sons

When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.

Verse ConceptsAfflicted To DeathGreyNowhere To Be Found

And Pharaoh said to them, What is your business? And they said, Your servants are keepers of sheep, as our fathers were before us.

Verse ConceptsOccupationsThose Who Kept Stock

And when all the money in Egypt and Canaan was gone, the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread; would you have us come to destruction before your eyes? for we have no more money.

Verse ConceptsRequesting FoodPossibility Of DeathIndeterminate Sums Of MoneyShortage Other Than FoodFinancesSaving Money

Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste.

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenPossibility Of DeathLiteral PlantingGroups Of Slaves

And they said to him, Truly you have kept us from death; may we have grace in your eyes, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

Verse ConceptsSubjectionKept Alive By MenGroups Of SlavesIndividuals Saving Others

Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him.

Verse ConceptsGrudgesResentment, Against PeopleResponseRepaying Evil For EvilNamed People Angry With Others

So they sent word to Joseph, saying, Your father, before his death, gave us orders, saying,

Verse ConceptsBefore Death

Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become even greater, and if there is a war, they may be joined with those who are against us, and make an attack on us, and go up out of the land.

Verse ConceptsOppression, Nature OfPersecution, Forms OfShrewdnessFalse WisdomExodusPrinciples Of WarNetworkingImmigrants

And he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? are you going to put me to death as you did the Egyptian? And Moses was in fear, and said, It is clear that the thing has come to light.

Verse ConceptsRulersAttempting To Kill MeThings Revealed

And they said, An Egyptian came to our help against the keepers of sheep and got water for us and gave it to the flock.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals Saving OthersStock Keeping

And they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the chiefs of Israel, will go to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesThree DaysParticular JourneysA Feast In The WildernessPaying Attention To People

And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God, so that he may not send death on us by disease or the sword.

Verse ConceptsSwordsThree DaysParticular JourneysA Feast In The WildernessGod Might Kill His People

But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God.

Verse ConceptsOppression, Examples OfNumbers ReducingNo Reduction

They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.

Verse ConceptsWronging Other People

But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.

Verse Conceptshumor

And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.

Verse ConceptsNosesSmellsApproval To Kill

But we will go three days' journey into the waste land and make an offering to the Lord our God as he may give us orders.

Verse ConceptsThree DaysParticular JourneysA Feast In The Wilderness

And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long is this man to be the cause of evil to us? let the men go so that they may give worship to the Lord their God: are you not awake to Egypt's danger?

Verse ConceptsMan TrappingBefore People ActWorshipping God

But Moses said, You will have to let us take burned offerings to put before the Lord our God.

Verse ConceptsBurnt offering

So our cattle will have to go with us, not one may be kept back; for they are needed for the worship of the Lord our God; we have no knowledge what offering we have to give till we come to the place.

Verse ConceptsOwning LivestockPeople Not AbandoningFeet Of CreaturesIgnorant Of Facts

And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for this? say to him, By the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt, out of the prison-house:

Verse ConceptsStrength Of GodAskingWhat Is This?Groups Of SlavesTeaching ChildrenGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

And when Pharaoh made his heart hard and would not let us go, the Lord sent death on all the first sons in Egypt, of man and of beast: and so every first male who comes to birth is offered to the Lord; but for all the first of my sons I give a price.

Verse ConceptsStubbornness, Consequences OfDeath Of The FirstbornGod KillingMale AnimalsBoth Men And Animals KilledHindering God's WorkGod Killed The PeoplesRegulating Sacrifices

And this will be for a sign on your hand and for a mark on your brow: for by the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsForeheadsStrength Of GodMarks On PeopleGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

And word came to Pharaoh of the flight of the people: and the feeling of Pharaoh and of his servants about the people was changed, and they said, Why have we let Israel go, so that they will do no more work for us?

Verse ConceptsPeople Changing Their MindsIsrael FleeingTelling Of Movements

And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt?

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodDying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathWhat Do You Do?

Did we not say to you in Egypt, Let us be as we are, working for the Egyptians? for it is better to be the servants of the Egyptians than to come to our death in the waste land.

Verse ConceptsDying In The WildernessPossibility Of DeathLeave Us AloneServing GroupsDying In The Desert slaveryNot Being Alone

And made the wheels of their war-carriages stiff, so that they had hard work driving them: so the Egyptians said, Let us go in flight from before the face of Israel, for the Lord is fighting for them against the Egyptians.

Verse ConceptsWheelsDrivingGod HinderingHard Tasks

And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.

Verse ConceptsIngratitudeMeatSelf PityCynicismDying In The WildernessDesire For DeathPlenty In EgyptNo FoodGod Might Kill His PeoplePots For Cooking And EatingDying In The Desert WeedComplaininghungerpot

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
למּד למּוּד 
Limmuwd 
Usage: 6

משּׁא 
Mashsha' 
Usage: 3

משׁל 
Mashal 
Usage: 16

נשׁא 
Nasha' 
Usage: 4

נשׁה 
Nashah 
Usage: 12

נשׁך 
Nashak 
Usage: 16

נשׁך 
Neshek 
Usage: 12

קסם 
Qacam 
Usage: 20

ἀναστρέφω 
Anastrepho 
Usage: 11

ἀπόχρησις 
Apochresis 
Usage: 1

αὐθεντέω 
Authenteo 
Usage: 1

βαττολογέω 
Battologeo 
Usage: 0

δολιόω 
Dolioo 
Usage: 1

ἕξις 
hexis 
use
Usage: 1

ἐπηρεάζω 
Epereazo 
Usage: 1

εὐχρηστος 
Euchrestos 
Usage: 3

μαγεύω 
Mageuo 
Usage: 1

μετέχω 
metecho 
Usage: 8

πράσσω 
Prasso 
do , commit , exact , require , deed , keep , use arts
Usage: 35

ὑβρίζω 
Hubrizo 
Usage: 3

φιλόξενος 
Philoxenos 
Usage: 3

χράομαι 
Chraomai 
Usage: 11

χρεία 
Chreia 
Usage: 36

χρῆσις 
Chresis 
use
Usage: 2

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