'Home' in the Bible
Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, 'Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home.'" And Gideon tested them; twenty-two thousand returned, and ten thousand remained.
And the LORD said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men that lapped I will deliver you, and give the Mid'ianites into your hand; and let all the others go every man to his home."
And when the men of Israel saw that Abim'elech was dead, they departed every man to his home.
Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight with the Ammonites, and the LORD gives them over to me, I will be your head."
Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances; she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
And they turned aside thither, and came to the house of the young Levite, at the home of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
When they were a good way from the home of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah's house were called out, and they overtook the Danites.
Then the Danites went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his home.
And when the man and his concubine and his servant rose up to depart, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, "Behold, now the day has waned toward evening; pray tarry all night. Behold, the day draws to its close; lodge here and let your heart be merry; and tomorrow you shall arise early in the morning for your journey, and go home."
And he said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of E'phraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah; and I am going to my home; and nobody takes me into his house.
He said to her, "Get up, let us be going." But there was no answer. Then he put her upon the ass; and the man rose up and went away to his home.
Related Words
Bible Theasaurus
- Base (133 instances)
- Country (613 instances)
- Destination (2 instances)
- Dwelling (329 instances)
- Family (608 instances)
- Fatherland (1 instance)
- Focus (19 instances)
- Goal (17 instances)
- Harbor (10 instances)
- Hearth (11 instances)
- Home (454 instances)
- Homestead (3 instances)
- House (2166 instances)
- Household (360 instances)
- Housing (4 instances)
- Interior (12 instances)
- Internal (18 instances)
- National (18 instances)
- Near (1082 instances)
- Party (97 instances)
- Place (2809 instances)
- Plate (41 instances)
- Refuge (141 instances)
Reverse Interlinear
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