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Verses
5 results- VerseJeremiah 7:8But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
- VerseActs 19:38So if Demetrius and his fellow craftsmen have a complaint against anyone, the courts are open and proconsuls are available. Let them bring charges against one another there.
- VerseJeremiah 12:13They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”
- VerseMark 5:26She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse.
- VerseDaniel 11:27And the two kings, with their hearts bent on evil, will speak lies at the same table, but to no avail, for still the end will come at the appointed time.
Places
2 resultsWords (Strong's)
- WordH5755 עִוָּה · ʻIvvâh (Hebrew)Ivvah or Avva, a region of Assyria. The Hebrew word stands 4 times in the original text.
- WordH7737 שָׁוָה · shâvâh (Hebrew)properly, to level, i.e. equalize. The Hebrew word stands 21 times in the original text.
- WordG2480 ἰσχύω · ischýō (Greek)to have (or exercise) force (literally or figuratively). The Greek word stands 28 times in the original text.
- WordH3120 יָוָן · Yâvân (Hebrew)Javan, the name of a son of Joktan, and of the race (Ionians, i.e. Greeks) descended from him, with their territory. The Hebrew word stands 11 times in the original text.
- WordH2254 חָבַל · châbal (Hebrew)to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bind. The Hebrew word stands 27 times in the original text.
Concepts
19 results- ConceptSeedOne word that carries the whole promise: a line of descent that narrows, verse by verse, to one Person.
- ConceptGloryThe weight of God made visible: כָּבוֹד, literally heaviness: filling a tabernacle, a temple, and finally a body.
- ConceptLightGod's first spoken word and his own self-description: light before the sun, and a Light no darkness can put out.
- ConceptEdenThe garden God planted eastward: a sanctuary with a river, two trees, and a job description, lost by one command broken.
- ConceptTreesThe Bible's story turns at trees: two in the garden, one bearing a curse, one bearing healing for the nations.
Themes
3 results- ThemeLoveThe Old Testament's word for it is *chesed* — not a feeling but a covenant posture: steadfast, loyal, obligated love that keeps showing up whether or not it is deserved. God's…
- ThemeCreationScripture opens with a claim, not an argument: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Gen 1:1). The Genesis account moves in an ordered six-day sequence…
- ThemePrayerPrayer enters the canon as a corporate act, not a private technique: "then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah" (Genesis 4:26) describes a community, not a method. The…
Topics
10 results- TopicAhavaA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicAvaA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicAvariceA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicBavaiA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicCavalryA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
Apologetics
2 results- ApologeticsHittite Empire ConfirmationNineteenth-century critics treated the Old Testament's Hittites as a people invented by the biblical writers. In 1906 Hugo Winckler's excavation at Boğazköy in central Turkey…
- ApologeticsJehoiachin Ration Tablets (Babylonian Captivity)Cuneiform ration lists excavated from a vaulted storehouse beside Babylon's Ishtar Gate name "Ya'u-kinu, king of the land of Yahudu" and five royal sons among the palace…
Voices
17 results- VoiceJeromeEusebius Hieronymus was born about 347 at Stridon, a town on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia that no longer exists. His parents were Christians with money. They sent him to…
- VoiceAratorArator was born in Liguria in northern Italy around 490 and orphaned young. He was raised and educated under the care of Laurentius, bishop of Milan, and trained as a lawyer…
- VoiceIrenaeusIrenaeus was born in Smyrna, in Asia Minor, around 130. As a boy he sat and listened to Polycarp, the old bishop of that city, and he never forgot it. Writing decades later to…
- VoiceEpiphanius ScholasticusEpiphanius was a Greek-speaking scholar who worked at Vivarium, the monastery Cassiodorus founded on his family estate in Calabria after retiring from a long career in the…
- VoiceTyrannius RufinusRufinus was born about 345 at Concordia, near Aquileia in northeastern Italy. He studied at Rome, where he formed a close friendship with a fellow student from the same region…
Doorways
Study a word
H5755עִוָּה ʻIvvâh — Ivvah or Avva, a region of AssyriaH7737שָׁוָה shâvâh — properly, to level, i.e. equalizeG2480ἰσχύω ischýō — to have (or exercise) force (literally or
figuratively)H3120יָוָן Yâvân — Javan, the name of a son of Joktan, and of the race (Ionians, i.e. Greeks) descended from him, with their territoryH2254חָבַל châbal — to wind tightly (as a rope), i.e. to bindH3564כּוּר kuwr — a pot or furnace (as if excavated)