'Spend' in the Bible
So both of them sat down for a bit, ate and drank together, and the young woman's father invited the man, "Please, enjoy yourself and spend another night."
The man got up, intending to leave, but his father-in-law urged him to spend the night there again.
The man got up to go with his concubine and his servant, when his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Look, night is coming. Please spend the night. See, the day is almost over. Spend the night here, enjoy yourself, then you can get up early tomorrow for your journey and go home.”
But the man was unwilling to spend the night. He got up, departed, and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). The man had his two saddled donkeys and his concubine with him.
When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Please, why not let us stop at this Jebusite city and spend the night here?”
“Come on,” he said, “let’s try to reach one of these places and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah.”
They stopped to go in and spend the night in Gibeah. The Levite went in and sat down in the city square, but no one took them into their home to spend the night.
And he said to him, "We [are] crossing over from Bethlehem in Judah up to the remote areas of the hill country of Ephraim, where I [am] from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, but [now] I am going to Yahweh's house, but no one {took me in to spend the night}.
“Peace to you,” said the old man. “I’ll take care of everything you need. Only don’t spend the night in the square.”
The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered: “I went to Gibeah in Benjamin with my concubine to spend the night.
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Bible Theasaurus
- Consume (170 instances)
- Disperse (14 instances)
- Drain (14 instances)
- Drop (50 instances)
- Empty (146 instances)
- Exhaust (12 instances)
- Expend (4 instances)
- Impoverish (3 instances)
- Pass (1244 instances)
- Spend (67 instances)
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