'Power' in the Bible
And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.
A new king, who had not known Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in power than we are:
I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the territory of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Then He said, “Throw it on the ground.” So Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a [living] serpent [like the royal symbol on the crown of Pharaoh]; and Moses ran from it.
The Lord instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, make sure you do all the wonders before Pharaoh that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he won’t let the people go.
Say then to the children of Israel, I am Yahweh, and I will take you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians, and make you safe from their power, and will make you free by the strength of my arm after great punishments.
WhenPharaoh won't listen to you, I'll let loose my power upon Egypt. I'll bring out my tribal divisions my people the Israelis from the land of Egypt with great acts of judgment.
And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants [making them determined and unresponsive], so that I may exhibit My signs [of divine power] among them,
and that you may recount and explain in the hearing of your son, and your grandson, what I have done [repeatedly] to make a mockery of the Egyptians—My signs [of divine power] which I have done among them—so that you may know [without any doubt] and recognize [clearly] that I am the Lord.”
And death will come to every mother's first male child in all the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power, to the child of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and the first births of all the cattle.
And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on every first male child in the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power to the child of the prisoner in the prison; and the first births of all the cattle.
That day the Lord saved Israel from the power of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
When Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.
Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.
And Joshua broke the power of Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
And Jethro was glad because the Lord had been good to Israel, freeing them from the power of the Egyptians.
“Praise the Lord,” Jethro exclaimed, “who rescued you from Pharaoh and the power of the Egyptians and snatched the people from the power of the Egyptians.
If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.
I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.
And in the bag you are to put the Urim and Thummim, so that they may be on Aaron's heart whenever he goes in before the Lord; and Aaron may have the power of making decisions for the children of Israel before the Lord at all times.
And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
And he has given to him, and to Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the power of training others.
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Related Words
- All-powerful (12 instances in 4 translations)
- Empower (5 instances in 2 translations)
- Empowered (17 instances in 4 translations)
- Empowering (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Empowers (2 instances in 2 translations)
- Overpower (17 instances in 7 translations)
- Overpowered (23 instances in 9 translations)
- Overpowering (3 instances in 2 translations)
- Overpoweringly (1 instance in 1 translation)
- Overpowers (5 instances in 4 translations)
- Powerful (220 instances in 12 translations)
- Powerfully (11 instances in 10 translations)
- Powerless (38 instances in 9 translations)
- Powers (59 instances in 13 translations)
Bible Theasaurus
- Ability (85 instances)
- Authority (481 instances)
- Base (133 instances)
- Control (336 instances)
- Energy (19 instances)
- Force (319 instances)
- King (2337 instances)
- Office (80 instances)
- Power (1123 instances)
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