was KJV
“Was” is in the King James Bible 4,531 times, in 3,638 verses. Jump to the verses ↓
- ἦν ēn 262 times
- γίνομαι gínomai 169 times
- בּוֹא bôwʼ 65 times
- חָרָה chârâh 41 times
- מְאֹד mᵉʼôd 37 times
- מוּת mûwth 32 times
- קָבַר qâbar 32 times
- נָגַד nâgad 30 times
- ἐστί estí 29 times
- מָצָא mâtsâʼ 28 times
- δίδωμι dídōmi 23 times
- ἔρχομαι érchomai 22 times
- No Strong's number mostly supplied words 1,467 times
1,024 more, less often
- ὤν ṓn 22 times
- נָתַן nâthan 20 times
- עָלָה ʻâlâh 20 times
- ῥέω rhéō 19 times
- יָלַד yâlad 19 times
- קָרָא qârâʼ 19 times
- מֶלֶךְ melek 18 times
- עָשָׂה ʻâsâh 18 times
- אִישׁ ʼîysh 16 times
- εἶναι eînai 15 times
- חָזַק châzaq 15 times
- יוֹם yôwm 15 times
- ἤμην ḗmēn 14 times
- מָלֵא mâlêʼ 14 times
- מִלְחָמָה milchâmâh 14 times
- שׁוּב shûwb 14 times
- καλέω kaléō 13 times
- γεννάω gennáō 12 times
- μέλλω méllō 12 times
- יָרֵא yârêʼ 12 times
- לָכַד lâkad 12 times
- קָצַף qâtsaph 12 times
- שָׁמַע shâmaʻ 12 times
- βάλλω bállō 11 times
- εὑρίσκω heurískō 11 times
- אֶרֶץ ʼerets 11 times
- גָּדוֹל gâdôwl 11 times
- חָלָה châlâh 11 times
- יָדַע yâdaʻ 11 times
- יָצָא yâtsâʼ 11 times
- כָּבַד kâbad 11 times
- לֵבָב lêbâb 11 times
- עָבַר ʻâbar 11 times
- פָּנִים pânîym 11 times
- יָלַךְ yâlak 10 times
- לָקַח lâqach 10 times
- γράφω gráphō 9 times
- λογίζομαι logízomai 9 times
- אֶחָד ʼechâd 9 times
- אָמַר ʼâmar 9 times
- גָּלָה gâlâh 9 times
- דָּבָר dâbâr 9 times
- כָּתַב kâthab 9 times
- צָוָה tsâvâh 9 times
- ἐγείρω egeírō 8 times
- εἰσέρχομαι eisérchomai 8 times
- ἐν en 8 times
- ὑπάρχω hypárchō 8 times
And 976 others, each in a phrase with “was” a few times.
Hebrew and Greek words, transliterations, and pronunciations from the Open Scriptures Strong's dictionaries (CC BY-SA).
“was” is under Be.
BE, verb intransitive substantive, participle present tense being; participle passive been.[The sense is to stand, remain or be fixed; hence to continue. This verb is defective, and its defects are supplied by verbs from other roots, as, is, was, were, which have no radical connection with be The case is the same with the substantive verb in most languages.]
1. To be fixed; to exist; to have a real state or existence, for a longer or shorter time.
Let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus. Phil 2:1.
To be contents his natural desire.
From Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language (1828).
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Ecclesiastes
- 5:6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
- 7:23 All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
- 9:14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
- 12:10 The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
Song of Solomon
- 2:3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
- 2:4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
- 3:4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
Isaiah
- 9:1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
- 10:26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.
- 22:25 In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
- 26:16 LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
- 36:22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
- 37:2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
- 38:20 The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.
- 41:28 For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.
- 43:12 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
- 43:13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
- 50:2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
- 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
- 53:9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
- 59:15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
- 59:16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
- 63:3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
- 63:5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
- 65:2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
Jeremiah
- 2:2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
- 2:3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.
- 4:23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
- 4:25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
- 4:26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
- 7:12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.
- 11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
- 14:6 And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.
- 15:9 She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.
- 20:1 Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
- 20:2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
- 22:15 Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?
- 22:16 He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
- 25:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
- 28:1 And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house of the LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,
- 31:11 For the LORD hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.
- 32:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
- 32:2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
- 32:8 So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
- 32:9 And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle's son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.
- 35:4 And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:
- 36:22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
- 36:23 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
- 37:13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
- 38:6 Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
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