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 H3513

11 verses translating H3513 Show all

Exodus
  1. 9:7 And Pharaoh sent, and, behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.
Judges
  1. 20:34 And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.
1 Samuel
  1. 5:6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
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.
  2. 23:19 Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.
  3. 23:23 He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
1 Chronicles
  1. 4:9 And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
  2. 11:21 Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.
  3. 11:25 Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.
Nehemiah
  1. 5:18 Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
Psalms
  1. 32:4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

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