was KJV

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

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“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.

The whole entry for Be

From Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language (1828).

Every verse 3,638 verses

Philippians
  1. 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
  2. 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
  3. 2:26 For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.
  4. 2:27 For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.
  5. 2:30 Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
Colossians
  1. 1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
  2. 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
1 Thessalonians
  1. 2:1 For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:
  2. 2:3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
  3. 5:28 The first epistle to the Thessalonians was written from Athens. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
2 Thessalonians
  1. 1:10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
  2. 2:5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
  3. 3:18 The second epistle to the Thessalonians was written from Athens. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
1 Timothy
  1. 1:11 According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
  2. 1:13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
  3. 1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
  4. 2:13 For Adam was first formed, then Eve.
  5. 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.
  6. 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
  7. 4:14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
  8. 6:21 The first to Timothy was written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest city of Phrygia Pacatiana. Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.
2 Timothy
  1. 1:9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
  2. 1:14 That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.
  3. 1:16 The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:
  4. 1:17 But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.
  5. 2:8 Remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to my gospel:
  6. 3:9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
  7. 4:17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
  8. 4:22 The second epistle unto Timotheus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Ephesians, was written from Rome, when Paul was brought before Nero the second time. The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
Titus
  1. 3:15 It was written to Titus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia. All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.
Philemon
  1. 1:11 Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:
Hebrews
  1. 2:2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
  2. 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
  3. 2:9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
  4. 3:2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
  5. 3:3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
  6. 3:5 And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
  7. 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
  8. 3:17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
  9. 4:2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
  10. 4:6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:
  11. 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
  12. 5:4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
  13. 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
  14. 6:18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
  15. 7:4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
  16. 7:10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.
  17. 7:11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
  18. 7:20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
  19. 7:22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

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