were KJV

“Were” is in the King James Bible 2,773 times, in 2,315 verses. Jump to the verses ↓

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translating H3966

14 verses translating H3966 Show all

Genesis
  1. 20:8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.
  2. 34:7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
Exodus
  1. 14:10 And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the LORD.
Joshua
  1. 9:24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
Judges
  1. 2:15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
1 Samuel
  1. 14:31 And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
  2. 17:24 And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.
2 Samuel
  1. 10:5 When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
1 Kings
  1. 7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
2 Kings
  1. 10:4 But they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, two kings stood not before him: how then shall we stand?
1 Chronicles
  1. 19:5 Then there went certain, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
Nehemiah
  1. 4:7 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
  2. 6:16 And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.
Psalms
  1. 78:29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

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