42 occurrences

'Assigned' in the Bible

The captain of the guard assigned Joseph to them, and he became their personal attendant. And they were in custody for some time.

So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities for Pharaoh.

Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Examples OfOppression, Nature OfStoringSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, HardshipSuffering, Nature OfTaskmastersStores Of FoodForced Labour

The overseers insisted, “Finish your assigned work each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

It must not be baked with yeast; I have assigned it as their portion from My fire offerings. It is especially holy, like the sin offering and the restitution offering.

Verse ConceptsGrain OfferingHoliness, As Set Apart For GodBaking Bread

I have taken from the Israelites the breast of the presentation offering and the thigh of the contribution from their fellowship sacrifices, and have assigned them to Aaron the priest and his sons as a permanent portion from the Israelites.”

Verse ConceptsWave OfferingsThighs Of AnimalsFood For Priests Defined

But you and your sons and your daughters may eat the breast of the presentation offering and the thigh of the contribution in any ceremonially clean place, because these portions have been assigned to you and your children from the Israelites’ fellowship sacrifices.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersFellowship OfferingWave OfferingsAnimal Sacrifices, Heave OfferingSwingingThighs Of AnimalsPermitted To Eat Offerings

“Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the sanctuary area? For it is especially holy, and He has assigned it to you to take away the guilt of the community and make atonement for them before the Lord.

Verse ConceptsIncurring GuiltSin BearerFood For Priests DefinedWhy Do People Not Do This?Priests Atoning

Assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they have been assigned exclusively to him from the Israelites.

The assigned duties of Merari’s descendants involved the tabernacle’s supports, crossbars, posts, bases, all its equipment, and all the work related to these,

For they have been exclusively assigned to Me from the Israelites. I have taken them for Myself in place of all who come first from the womb, every Israelite firstborn.

Verse ConceptsPeople Belong To God

Look, I have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift for you, assigned by the Lord to work at the tent of meeting.

Verse ConceptsDedication In Ot

He chose the best part for himself,because a ruler’s portion was assigned there for him.He came with the leaders of the people;he carried out the Lord’s justiceand His ordinances for Israel.

Verse ConceptsChoosing Things

The Philistine commanders, however, were enraged with Achish and told him, “Send that man back and let him return to the place you assigned him. He must not go down with us into battle only to become our adversary during the battle. What better way could he regain his master’s favor than with the heads of our men?

Verse ConceptsSending people homeUnnamed People Angry With Others

Their relatives, the Levites, were assigned to all the service of the tabernacle, God’s temple.

Verse ConceptsAssignment

These were the places assigned to Aaron’s sons from the Kohathite family for their settlements in their territory, because the first lot was for them.

To the rest of the Kohathites, 10 towns from half the tribe of Manasseh were assigned by lot.

Verse ConceptsTen Things

The Gershomites were assigned 13 towns from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Manasseh in Bashan according to their families.

Verse ConceptsThirteen

The Merarites were assigned by lot 12 towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun according to their families.

Verse ConceptsThe Number Twelve

They assigned by lot the towns named above from the tribes of the Judahites, Simeonites, and Benjaminites.

Shallum son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah and his relatives from his ancestral household, the Korahites, were assigned to guard the thresholds of the tent. Their ancestors had been assigned to the Lord’s camp as guardians of the entrance.

So they and their sons were assigned to the gates of the Lord’s temple, which had been the tent-temple.

Together with Zadok from the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech from the sons of Ithamar, David divided them according to the assigned duties of their service.

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtPriests, Institution In Ot TimesServanthood, And Worship Of God

These had their assigned duties for service when they entered the Lord’s temple, according to their regulations, which they received from their ancestor Aaron, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him.

From the Hebronites: Hashabiah and his relatives, 1,700 capable men, had assigned duties in Israel west of the Jordan for all the work of the Lord and for the service of the king.

Verse ConceptsThousands

so he assigned 70,000 men as porters, 80,000 men as stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 as supervisors over them.

Verse ConceptsConscriptionMasonsOverseersSkillStonesThree Thousand And UpFifty To Ninety Thousand

You gave them kingdoms and peoplesand assigned them to be a boundary.They took possessionof the land of Sihon king of Heshbonand of the land of Og king of Bashan.

Verse ConceptsKingdomsGod Sets Boundaries

So I purified them from everything foreign and assigned specific duties to each of the priests and Levites.

Verse ConceptsAvoiding ForeignersAssignment

The young woman pleased him and gained his favor so that he accelerated the process of the beauty treatments and the special diet that she received. He assigned seven hand-picked female servants to her from the palace and transferred her and her servants to the harem’s best quarters.

Verse ConceptsCosmeticsSeven PeopleWomen's Beauty

Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs assigned to her, and dispatched him to Mordecai to learn what he was doing and why.

Verse ConceptsAsking Particular Questions

So I have been made to inherit months of futility,and troubled nights have been assigned to me.

Verse ConceptsVanityUnrestUseless EndeavourFrustrationAssignment

Have you ever in your life commanded the morningor assigned the dawn its place,

Verse ConceptsMorningDaysHaving A Good DayA New Daycancer

How can it restwhen the Lord has given it a command?He has assigned itagainst Ashkelon and the shore of the sea.

Verse ConceptsNot Being StillNot StillGod's Orders

For I have assigned you the years of their iniquity according to the number of days you lie down, 390 days; so you will bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

Verse ConceptsOne DayOne Year100 Years And MoreAssignment

When you have completed these days, lie down again, but on your right side, and bear the iniquity of the house of Judah. I have assigned you 40 days, a day for each year.

Verse ConceptsForty DaysDoing Things TwiceOne DayMore Than One Month40 To 50 YearsCarrying SinOther Right PartsGod's People Sinning

The king assigned them daily provisions from the royal food and from the wine that he drank. They were to be trained for three years, and at the end of that time they were to serve in the king’s court.

Verse ConceptsThree YearsProviding WinePeople TeachingOnce A DayForbidden FoodRich FoodServing KingsDividing FoodAssignmentEducation

yet he said to Daniel, “My lord the king assigned your food and drink. I’m afraid of what would happen if he saw your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age. You would endanger my life with the king.”

Verse ConceptsCountenance

So Daniel said to the guard whom the chief official had assigned to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had assigned to destroy the wise men of Babylon. He came and said to him, “Don’t kill the wise men of Babylon! Bring me before the king, and I will give him the interpretation.”

Verse ConceptsAttempting To Kill Specific People

After the arrest, he put him in prison and assigned four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

Verse ConceptsGuardsImprisonmentsPassoverPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSoldiersFour GroupsEasterPeople Releasing Othersjail

“Then I said, ‘What should I do, Lord?’“And the Lord told me, ‘Get up and go into Damascus, and there you will be told about everything that is assigned for you to do.’

Verse ConceptsGiving InformationDoing God's Worksdamascus

However, each one must live his life in the situation the Lord assigned when God called him. This is what I command in all the churches.

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

We, however, will not boast beyond measure but according to the measure of the area of ministry that God has assigned to us, which reaches even to you.

Verse ConceptsPaul's BoastingBoastinglimitationsmeasurement

Bible Theasaurus

Allot (12 instances)
Ascribe (14 instances)
Assign (33 instances)
Assigned (232 instances)
Attribute (2 instances)
Delegate (2 instances)
Designate (9 instances)
Impute (5 instances)
Portion (273 instances)
Specify (1 instance)

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