'Answered' in the Bible

And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes.

The sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth; even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

Then Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “The matter comes from the Lord; so we cannot speak to you bad or good.

Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord answered him and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man and I am a smooth man.

But Isaac replied to Esau, “Behold, I have made him your master, and all his relatives I have given to him as servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. Now as for you then, what can I do, my son?”

Then Isaac his father answered and said to him,“Behold, away from the fertility of the earth shall be your dwelling,And away from the dew of heaven from above.

Rachel and Leah said to him, “Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

Then Jacob replied to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.

Then Jacob became angry and contended with Laban; and Jacob said to Laban, “What is my transgression? What is my sin that you have hotly pursued me?

Then Laban replied to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?

But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.

and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Then Joseph answered and said, “This is its interpretation: the three baskets are three days;

Joseph then answered Pharaoh, saying, “It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”

Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Now comes the reckoning for his blood.”

But they said, “The man questioned particularly about us and our relatives, saying, ‘Is your father still alive? Have you another brother?’ So we answered his questions. Could we possibly know that he would say, ‘Bring your brother down’?”