'Found' in the Bible

“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat or drink for three days, day or night. I and my female servants will also fast in the same way. After that, I will go to the king even if it is against the law. If I perish, I perish.”

When the king saw Queen Esther standing in the courtyard she found favor in his eyes, and the king held out the gold scepter that [was] in his hand to Esther, and Esther approached and touched the top of the scepter.

If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.

And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.

Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

Then King Ahasuerus responded to Queen Esther, "Who is this individual? Where is this person to be found who is presumptuous enough to act in this way?"

And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:

The rest of the Jews who [were] in the king's provinces gathered and {defended their lives} and {found repose} from their enemies. And they killed seventy-five thousand of those that hated them, but they did not {touch} the plunder.

as the day that the Jews {found relief} from their enemies, and the month which changed for them from sorrow to joy, and from a mourning ceremony to a {festive day}; to make them days of feasting and joy, and giving gifts to each other and to the poor.

Therefore, because of the account found in this letter and what they had faced in this regard and what had happened to them, the Jews established as binding on themselves, their descendants, and all who joined their company that they should observe these two days without fail, just as written and at the appropriate time on an annual basis.

"Indeed, please inquire of former generations, and consider {what their ancestors have found},

Since I will be found guilty,why should I labor in vain?

Wisdom is found with the elderly,and understanding comes with long life.

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

where stones are sapphire and gold dust can be found,

But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

Destruction and Death say, 'With our ears we have heard a rumor about where it can be found.'

My roots have spread out and have found water, and dew settles at night on my branches.

if I've found joy in great wealth that I own, if I've earned a lot with my own hands,

If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

Nevertheless, God has found a pretext to attack me; he considers me his enemy.

Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

The Mighty! we have not found Him out, High in power and judgment, He doth not answer! And abundant in righteousness,

His young ones feast on blood; he'll be found wherever there's a carcass."

Lo, the hope of him is found a liar, Also at his appearance is not one cast down?

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.

Keep and protect me, O God, for in You I have placed my trust and found refuge.

You have tested my heart;You have examined me at night.You have tried me and found nothing evil;I have determined that my mouth will not sin.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

For yet a little while and the wicked one will be gone [forever];Though you look carefully where he used to be, he will not be [found].

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

wouldn’t God have found this out,since He knows the secrets of the heart?

For the choir director. A song of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth.God is our refuge and strength,a helper who is always foundin times of trouble.

“Gather My godly ones to Me,Those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”

Your flock found a dwelling place in it;O God, in Your goodness You provided for the poor.

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

O Lord our God, you answered them. They found you to be a forgiving God, but also one who punished their sinful deeds.

Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands are the heavens.

They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.

When he is judged, let him be found guilty,and let his prayer be counted as sin.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

If I had not found encouragement in your law, I would have died in my sorrow.

Adversity and distress have found me, Thy commands are my delights.

Until I find a place for the Lord,A dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob (Israel).”

Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.

O the happiness of a man who hath found wisdom, And of a man who bringeth forth understanding.

Jehovah by wisdom did found the earth, He prepared the heavens by understanding.

But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

The one who lives with integrity lives securely,but whoever perverts his ways will be found out.

In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

After they're overthrown, the wicked won't be found, but the house of the righteous stands firm.

Rock-solid security is found in the fear of the LORD, and within it one's children find refuge.

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

Whoso hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

All the brethren of a poor man hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him: he pursueth them with words, they are not to be found.

Precious treasures and oil are found where the wise live, but a foolish man devours them.

So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

Hast thou found honey? eat so much as is sufficient for thee, lest thou be filled therewith, and vomit it.

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

Spiders can be caught by the hand, yet they're found in kings' palaces.

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun and have found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

I thought to myself, "Come now, I will try self-indulgent pleasure to see if it is worthwhile." But I found that it also is futile.

When I considered all that I had accomplished and what I had labored to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

and I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is nets and snares, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her.

Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

I opened to my beloved, But my beloved withdrew -- he passed on, My soul went forth when he spake, I sought him, and found him not. I called him, and he answered me not.

The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

If only you were like a brother to me, like one who nursed at my mother's breasts. If I found you outside I would kiss you, and no one would view me with contempt.

I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.

For you will be ashamed [of the degradation] of the oaks in which you took [idolatrous] pleasure,And you will be ashamed of the gardens [of passion] which you have chosen [for pagan worship].

As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.

All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.

Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

In the past he said to them, "This is where security can be found. Provide security for the one who is exhausted! This is where rest can be found." But they refused to listen.

And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.

And met have Ziim with Aiim, And the goat for its companion calleth, Only there rested hath the night-owl, And hath found for herself a place of rest.

No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:

'It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear the words of Rabshakeh with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God, and hath decided concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard, and thou hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.'

So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

Then the ones belonging to the house of Judah who have escaped will gather, and those who are found will take root downward and bear fruit upward.