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“Were” is in the King James Bible 2,773 times, in 2,315 verses. Jump to the verses ↓
- ἦν ēn 116 times
- פּקד pâqad 81 times
- γίνομαι ginomai 45 times
- יצא yâtsâ' 27 times
- בּוא bô' 25 times
- ילד yâlad 25 times
- מצא mâtsâ' 25 times
- ὤν, οὖσα, ὄν ōn ousa on 22 times
- ὡς hōs 17 times
- ἐν en 16 times
- מאד me'ôd 14 times
- βαπτίζω baptizō 13 times
- No Strong's number mostly supplied words 1,035 times
704 more, less often
- אסף 'âsaph 13 times
- בּן bên 13 times
- ἔρχομαι erchomai 12 times
- πλήθω plēthō 12 times
- תּמם tâmam 12 times
- ראה râ'âh 11 times
- ἐξίστημι existēmi 10 times
- συνάγω sunagō 10 times
- ירא yârê' 10 times
- ἐκπλήσσω ekplēssō 9 times
- פּנים pânı̂ym 9 times
- שׁנים שׁתּים shenayim shettayim 9 times
- εἰσί eisi 8 times
- ἔχω echō 8 times
- φοβέω phobeō 8 times
- בּוּשׁ bûsh 8 times
- יחשׂ yâchaś 8 times
- נגף nâgaph 8 times
- סוּר שׂוּר sûr śûr 8 times
- עבר ‛âbar 8 times
- עלה ‛âlâh 8 times
- עשׂה ‛âśâh 8 times
- פּוּץ pûts 8 times
- ἀνοίγω anoigō 7 times
- ἐξέρχομαι exerchomai 7 times
- καλέω kaleō 7 times
- μετά meta 7 times
- χορτάζω chortazō 7 times
- יתר yâthar 7 times
- מלא מלא mâlê' mâlâ' 7 times
- תּשׁע תּשׁעה têsha‛ tish‛âh 7 times
- παραγίνομαι paraginomai 6 times
- σύν sun 6 times
- συνέρχομαι sunerchomai 6 times
- ישׁ yêsh 6 times
- מוּת mûth 6 times
- נכה nâkâh 6 times
- שׁוּב shûb 6 times
- שׁלושׁ שׁלשׁ שׁלושׁה שׁלשׁה shâlôsh shâlôsh shelôshâh shelôshâh 6 times
- ἀπέρχομαι aperchomai 5 times
- βάλλω ballō 5 times
- ἐστί esti 5 times
- λαλέω laleō 5 times
- σφόδρα sphodra 5 times
- ὑπάρχω huparchō 5 times
- אלף 'eleph 5 times
- גּדל gâdal 5 times
- גּלה gâlâh 5 times
And 656 others, each in a phrase with “were” a few times.
31 verses in Job Show all
Job
- 1:2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
- 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.
- 1:13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
- 1:14 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:
- 1:18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
- 4:7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
- 6:2 Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
- 6:20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.
- 9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
- 9:21 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
- 16:4 I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
- 18:20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
- 19:23 Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
- 19:24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
- 21:4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
- 22:16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
- 28:5 As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.
- 29:2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
- 29:5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
- 30:3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
- 30:5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
- 30:7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
- 30:8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
- 31:20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
- 31:28 This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
- 32:4 Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.
- 32:15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.
- 33:21 His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
- 34:35 Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.
- 39:16 She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear;
- 42:15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
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