was KJV

“Was” is in the King James Bible 4,531 times, in 3,638 verses. Jump to the verses ↓

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Psalms
  1. 79:3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
  2. 81:4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
  3. 87:4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
  4. 87:5 And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.
  5. 87:6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.
  6. 95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
  7. 97:8 Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.
  8. 105:17 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
  9. 105:18 Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
  10. 105:37 He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
  11. 105:38 Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.
  12. 106:9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
  13. 106:11 And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
  14. 106:18 And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
  15. 106:30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
  16. 106:31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
  17. 106:38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
  18. 106:40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
  19. 107:12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
  20. 114:2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
  21. 114:3 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
  22. 116:6 The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
  23. 116:10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
  24. 119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.
  25. 119:158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
  26. 122:1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD.
  27. 124:1 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, now may Israel say;
  28. 124:2 If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
  29. 124:3 Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
  30. 126:2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.
  31. 139:15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
  32. 139:16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
  33. 142:1 Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
  34. 142:3 When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
  35. 142:4 I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
Proverbs
  1. 4:3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
  2. 5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
  3. 8:23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
  4. 8:24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
  5. 8:25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
  6. 8:27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
  7. 8:30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
  8. 23:35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
  9. 24:31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Ecclesiastes
  1. 1:10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
  2. 1:12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
  3. 2:3 I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
  4. 2:9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
  5. 2:10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
  6. 2:11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

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