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were KJV
“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.
Every verse 2,315 verses
Job
- 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.
Psalms
- 14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
- 14:5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
- 14:7 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.
- 17:12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
- 18:7 Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.
- 18:8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
- 18:11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
- 18:15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
- 18:17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
- 18:22 For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
- 18:37 I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
- 18:38 I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.
- 22:5 They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
- 33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
- 34:5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
- 35:13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
- 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
- 45:9 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
- 46:6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
- 48:4 For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together.
- 48:5 They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
- 50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
- 53:2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
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