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“Was” is in the King James Bible 4,531 times, in 3,638 verses. Jump to the verses ↓
- ἦν ēn 262 times
- γίνομαι ginomai 169 times
- בּוא bô' 65 times
- חרה chârâh 41 times
- מאד me'ôd 37 times
- מוּת mûth 32 times
- קבר qâbar 32 times
- נגד nâgad 30 times
- ἐστί esti 29 times
- מצא mâtsâ' 28 times
- δίδωμι didōmi 23 times
- ἔρχομαι erchomai 22 times
- No Strong's number mostly supplied words 1,467 times
1,024 more, less often
- ὤν, οὖσα, ὄν ōn ousa on 22 times
- נתן nâthan 20 times
- עלה ‛âlâh 20 times
- ῥέω rheō 19 times
- ילד yâlad 19 times
- קרא qârâ' 19 times
- מלך melek 18 times
- עשׂה ‛âśâh 18 times
- אישׁ 'ı̂ysh 16 times
- εἶναι einai 15 times
- חזק châzaq 15 times
- יום yôm 15 times
- ἤμην ēmēn 14 times
- מלא מלא mâlê' mâlâ' 14 times
- מלחמה milchâmâh 14 times
- שׁוּב shûb 14 times
- καλέω kaleō 13 times
- γεννάω gennaō 12 times
- μέλλω mellō 12 times
- ירא yârê' 12 times
- לכד lâkad 12 times
- קצף qâtsaph 12 times
- שׁמע shâma‛ 12 times
- βάλλω ballō 11 times
- εὑρίσκω heuriskō 11 times
- ארץ 'erets 11 times
- גּדול גּדל gâdôl gâdôl 11 times
- חלה châlâh 11 times
- ידע yâda‛ 11 times
- יצא yâtsâ' 11 times
- כּבד כּבד kâbad kâbêd 11 times
- לבב lêbâb 11 times
- עבר ‛âbar 11 times
- פּנים pânı̂ym 11 times
- ילך yâlak 10 times
- לקח lâqach 10 times
- γράφω graphō 9 times
- λογίζομαι logizomai 9 times
- אחד 'echâd 9 times
- אמר 'âmar 9 times
- גּלה gâlâh 9 times
- דּבר dâbâr 9 times
- כּתב kâthab 9 times
- צוה tsâvâh 9 times
- ἐγείρω egeirō 8 times
- εἰσέρχομαι eiserchomai 8 times
- ἐν en 8 times
- ὑπάρχω huparchō 8 times
And 976 others, each in a phrase with “was” a few times.
149 verses in 2 Samuel Show all
2 Samuel
- 18:29 And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.
- 18:33 And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
- 19:1 And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.
- 19:2 And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.
- 19:16 And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
- 19:18 And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;
- 19:25 And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?
- 19:32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
- 19:39 And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was come over, the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own place.
- 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
- 20:8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
- 20:10 But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
- 20:13 When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
- 20:17 And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.
- 20:23 Now Joab was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites:
- 20:24 And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder:
- 20:25 And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
- 20:26 And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.
- 21:1 Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
- 21:7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
- 21:11 And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.
- 21:14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.
- 21:16 And Ishbibenob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.
- 21:18 And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, which was of the sons of the giant.
- 21:19 And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Bethlehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.
- 21:20 And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.
- 22:8 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.
- 22:10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.
- 22:11 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind.
- 22:19 They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.
- 22:24 I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
- 22:42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
- 23:1 Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
- 23:2 The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
- 23:8 These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
- 23:9 And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:
- 23:10 He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and the LORD wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.
- 23:11 And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
- 23:14 And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
- 23:16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
- 23:18 And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.
- 23:19 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.
- 23:23 He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
- 23:24 Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
- 24:1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
- 24:2 For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.
- 24:11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
- 24:16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
- 24:25 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD was intreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
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