was KJV

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

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translating H3117

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Genesis
  1. 26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
  2. 31:40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Joshua
  1. 10:14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
1 Samuel
  1. 14:18 And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.
  2. 27:7 And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
  3. 30:25 And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.
2 Samuel
  1. 14:26 And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.
1 Kings
  1. 5:1 And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
Job
  1. 1:5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
  2. 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
  3. 1:13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
  4. 2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
  5. 29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
  6. 30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Proverbs
  1. 8:30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

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