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Bible Concordance: "were"
Word "were" found in 2133 verse(s), 68 chapter(s) and 58 book(s).
What the Bible says about "were":
1st Samuel 11:9
And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
1st Samuel 11:11
And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
1st Samuel 13:2
Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
1st Samuel 13:4
And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
1st Samuel 13:6
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
1st Samuel 13:8
And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
1st Samuel 13:11
And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;
1st Samuel 13:15
And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men.
1st Samuel 13:16
And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
1st Samuel 13:22
So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
1st Samuel 14:2
And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;
1st Samuel 14:14
And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.
1st Samuel 14:17
Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there.
1st Samuel 14:20
And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.
1st Samuel 14:21
Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan.
1st Samuel 14:24
And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.
1st Samuel 14:26
And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.
1st Samuel 14:27
But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
1st Samuel 14:28
Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.
1st Samuel 14:31
And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
1st Samuel 14:41
Therefore Saul said unto the LORD God of Israel, Give a perfect lot. And Saul and Jonathan were taken: but the people escaped.
1st Samuel 14:49
Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
1st Samuel 16:6
And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD's anointed is before him.
1st Samuel 17:1
Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
1st Samuel 17:2
And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
Proverbs 23:7
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
- that: 928 verses
- they: 715 verses
- them: 509 verses
- their: 360 verses
- with: 418 verses
- which: 374 verses
- unto: 409 verses
- there: 233 verses
- when: 270 verses
- Israel: 203 verses
- from: 221 verses
- came: 231 verses
- thousand: 149 verses
- sons: 206 verses
- children: 179 verses
- LORD: 201 verses
- people: 181 verses
- hundred: 156 verses
- house: 164 verses
- before: 156 verses
- upon: 150 verses
- said: 165 verses
- went: 150 verses
- shall: 91 verses
- these: 141 verses
- also: 129 verses
- made: 128 verses
- into: 129 verses
- have: 95 verses
- king: 124 verses
- numbered: 83 verses
- after: 119 verses
- this: 120 verses
- even: 106 verses
- come: 115 verses
- about: 98 verses
- those: 84 verses
- over: 94 verses
- four: 82 verses
- according: 79 verses
- land: 94 verses
- side: 61 verses
- thereof: 64 verses
- David: 90 verses
- things: 75 verses
- three: 80 verses
- thee: 65 verses
- against: 84 verses
- because: 83 verses
- every: 75 verses
- among: 81 verses
- days: 87 verses
- city: 73 verses
- fathers: 78 verses
- Then: 88 verses
- twenty: 76 verses
- took: 83 verses
- thou: 70 verses
- great: 83 verses
- pass: 82 verses
- brought: 80 verses
- twelve: 55 verses
- Judah: 79 verses
- five: 65 verses
- brethren: 82 verses
- cities: 62 verses
- seven: 68 verses
- whom: 51 verses
- Jerusalem: 76 verses
- priests: 63 verses
- down: 70 verses
- tribe: 38 verses
- These: 64 verses
- hand: 66 verses
- away: 66 verses
- forth: 71 verses
- other: 57 verses
- together: 65 verses
- round: 55 verses
- earth: 61 verses
- behold: 65 verses
- saying: 70 verses
- Moses: 57 verses
- heard: 59 verses
- waters: 45 verses
- will: 35 verses
- families: 56 verses
- hath: 44 verses
- Jesus: 63 verses
- Levites: 55 verses
- like: 44 verses
- than: 33 verses
- might: 44 verses
- many: 54 verses
- found: 47 verses
- years: 54 verses
- work: 38 verses
- cubits: 35 verses
- month: 44 verses
- then: 37 verses
- done: 50 verses
- name: 43 verses
- themselves: 47 verses
- gold: 41 verses
- host: 38 verses
- fifty: 36 verses
- until: 46 verses
- Egypt: 45 verses
- sword: 42 verses
- left: 48 verses
- cast: 46 verses
- number: 44 verses
- should: 46 verses
- could: 44 verses
- Saul: 38 verses
- chief: 45 verses
- neither: 44 verses
- gathered: 50 verses
- called: 37 verses
- king's: 40 verses
- gate: 39 verses
- your: 44 verses
- more: 37 verses
- under: 43 verses
- time: 45 verses
- would: 43 verses
- place: 43 verses
- eyes: 39 verses
- first: 44 verses
- stood: 42 verses
- sent: 48 verses
- written: 25 verses
- pillars: 27 verses
- Jordan: 30 verses
- servants: 44 verses
- both: 42 verses
- thirty: 39 verses
- high: 36 verses
- born: 39 verses
- silver: 29 verses
- Philistines: 30 verses
- fire: 42 verses
- trees: 27 verses
- words: 37 verses
- vessels: 26 verses
- where: 34 verses
- dead: 30 verses
- what: 32 verses
- afraid: 37 verses
- Christ: 24 verses
- women: 38 verses
- field: 29 verses
- toward: 26 verses
- hands: 36 verses
- sealed: 9 verses
- father: 37 verses
- kings: 33 verses
- mighty: 35 verses
- little: 28 verses
- Lord: 32 verses
- gave: 33 verses
- another: 34 verses
- heaven: 33 verses
- They: 28 verses
- forty: 27 verses
- smote: 35 verses
- Benjamin: 33 verses
- priest: 35 verses
- therefore: 34 verses
- upward: 27 verses
- names: 30 verses
- slew: 32 verses
- very: 27 verses
- taken: 34 verses
- princes: 31 verses
- burnt: 31 verses
- delivered: 29 verses
- fled: 26 verses
- throughout: 26 verses
- chambers: 24 verses
- Aaron: 29 verses
- without: 28 verses
- power: 24 verses
- wilderness: 32 verses
- word: 29 verses
- returned: 33 verses
- threescore: 25 verses
- make: 24 verses
- spake: 32 verses
- able: 26 verses
- captains: 29 verses
- died: 28 verses
- righteousness: 4 verses
- saith: 26 verses
- again: 31 verses
- heads: 26 verses
- places: 24 verses
- heart: 23 verses
- none: 24 verses
- camp: 20 verses
- eight: 23 verses
- second: 30 verses
- being: 22 verses
- offering: 24 verses
- Jacob: 22 verses
- bare: 25 verses
- third: 27 verses
- fell: 28 verses
- passed: 25 verses
- carried: 20 verses
- thing: 20 verses
- Babylon: 21 verses
- told: 30 verses
- souls: 20 verses
- seen: 19 verses
- rest: 26 verses
- battle: 22 verses
- gone: 26 verses
- same: 23 verses
- much: 25 verses
- daughters: 26 verses
- dwelt: 27 verses
- opened: 22 verses
- Manasseh: 27 verses
- above: 28 verses
- court: 18 verses
- present: 21 verses
- therein: 19 verses
- feet: 23 verses
- filled: 24 verses
- mouth: 21 verses
- river: 20 verses
- slain: 23 verses
- door: 19 verses
- When: 24 verses
- whole: 20 verses
- commanded: 24 verses
- lifted: 19 verses
- Solomon: 18 verses
- give: 20 verses
- given: 24 verses
- death: 18 verses
- daughter: 23 verses
- mercy: 7 verses
- through: 18 verses
- That: 14 verses
- Thus: 23 verses
- flesh: 14 verses
- inhabitants: 18 verses
- morning: 23 verses
- drew: 18 verses
- know: 18 verses
- posts: 16 verses
- turned: 21 verses
- Jews: 22 verses
- Those: 13 verses
- been: 19 verses
- disciples: 21 verses
- tables: 11 verses
- whose: 25 verses
- book: 15 verses
- works: 16 verses
- world: 18 verses
- beside: 22 verses
- destroyed: 19 verses
- sight: 16 verses
- water: 20 verses
- hast: 17 verses
- captain: 23 verses
- multitude: 24 verses
- faces: 12 verses
- What: 13 verses
- Joseph: 20 verses
- service: 17 verses
- congregation: 21 verses
- generations: 23 verses
- sheep: 19 verses
- mount: 17 verses
- firstborn: 19 verses
- temple: 17 verses
- holy: 20 verses
- while: 19 verses
- departed: 20 verses
- good: 14 verses
- valley: 18 verses
- laid: 22 verses
- right: 21 verses
- night: 20 verses
- face: 19 verses
- Jonathan: 17 verses
- followed: 16 verses
- midst: 17 verses
- mine: 21 verses
- life: 17 verses
- wife: 20 verses
- brass: 19 verses
- tabernacle: 17 verses
- ashamed: 15 verses
- voice: 19 verses
- such: 19 verses
- arose: 24 verses
- oxen: 16 verses
- palm: 13 verses
- evil: 22 verses
- certain: 17 verses
- going: 13 verses
- having: 17 verses
- part: 15 verses
- year: 19 verses
- half: 15 verses
- arches: 10 verses
- shalt: 13 verses
- began: 19 verses
- thine: 17 verses
- windows: 11 verses
- long: 14 verses
- gods: 15 verses
- knew: 20 verses
- thus: 16 verses
- himself: 17 verses
- broken: 17 verses
- head: 18 verses
- Therefore: 16 verses
- some: 16 verses
- fear: 17 verses
- rose: 19 verses
- within: 15 verses
- brother: 20 verses
- sockets: 11 verses
- young: 19 verses
- prophets: 20 verses
- shew: 13 verses
- father's: 17 verses
- peace: 18 verses
- reckoned: 12 verses
- seed: 7 verses
- wheels: 10 verses
- money: 17 verses
- body: 11 verses
- spirit: 15 verses
- take: 19 verses
- manner: 16 verses
- commandment: 16 verses
- offerings: 15 verses
- bring: 19 verses
- Hebron: 17 verses
- servant: 19 verses
- between: 17 verses
- Ishmael: 14 verses
- cherubims: 14 verses
- full: 16 verses
- north: 14 verses
- stone: 17 verses
- glory: 9 verses
- white: 10 verses
- wrought: 15 verses
- Joab: 18 verses
- doors: 14 verses
- Even: 10 verses
- chapiters: 12 verses
- throne: 10 verses
- valour: 15 verses
- entered: 16 verses
- Reuben: 15 verses
- divided: 13 verses
- wall: 17 verses
- covenant: 14 verses
- Amorites: 15 verses
- offered: 14 verses
- wings: 12 verses
- south: 16 verses
- ground: 17 verses
- Ephraim: 17 verses
- course: 14 verses
- east: 16 verses
- only: 12 verses
- brake: 16 verses
- males: 10 verses
- suburbs: 11 verses
- porters: 14 verses
- concerning: 13 verses
- till: 17 verses
- living: 12 verses
- Ammon: 13 verses
- Syrians: 13 verses
- horses: 12 verses
- border: 11 verses
- well: 15 verses
- hope: 3 verses
- walls: 11 verses
- Jehoiada: 13 verses
- tree: 12 verses
- small: 11 verses
- Because: 14 verses
- appointed: 18 verses
- stand: 14 verses
- Samuel: 14 verses
- amazed: 14 verses
- stones: 14 verses
- near: 13 verses
- lions: 7 verses
- kingdom: 14 verses
- speak: 14 verses
- strong: 15 verses
- officers: 13 verses
- cattle: 11 verses
- nations: 15 verses
- Jericho: 15 verses
- country: 14 verses
- covered: 12 verses
- Also: 12 verses
- though: 13 verses
- Gedaliah: 14 verses
- prepared: 10 verses
- Moreover: 13 verses
- strangers: 14 verses
- cubit: 8 verses
- hosts: 11 verses
- sought: 11 verses
- mother: 14 verses
- Joshua: 14 verses
- faith: 9 verses
- scattered: 13 verses
- Issachar: 9 verses
- porch: 11 verses
- devils: 10 verses
- captivity: 13 verses
- There: 15 verses
- asses: 13 verses
- meat: 15 verses
- bread: 14 verses
- grown: 10 verses
- This: 16 verses
- hanged: 11 verses
- ever: 11 verses
- altar: 14 verses
- answered: 15 verses
- Spirit: 5 verses
- light: 10 verses
- saved: 7 verses
- troubled: 11 verses
- became: 12 verses
- steps: 10 verses
- measure: 9 verses
- destroy: 13 verses
- mountains: 11 verses
- fourscore: 12 verses
- image: 10 verses
- cried: 11 verses
- remained: 12 verses
- pure: 9 verses
- base: 7 verses
- singers: 14 verses
- each: 9 verses
- smitten: 12 verses
- blood: 12 verses
- looked: 14 verses
- Eleazar: 7 verses
- Jeremiah: 12 verses
- consumed: 12 verses
- fourth: 14 verses
- whether: 11 verses
- grass: 5 verses
- Levi: 11 verses
- gates: 9 verses
- love: 6 verses
- edge: 11 verses
- borders: 8 verses
- Samaria: 8 verses
- Gibeah: 10 verses
- entering: 13 verses
- ship: 11 verses
- villages: 9 verses
- beast: 11 verses
- remnant: 9 verses
- elders: 13 verses
- incense: 13 verses
- prophet: 14 verses
- healed: 10 verses
- scribe: 10 verses
- behind: 11 verses
- enemies: 12 verses
- astonished: 14 verses
- wherein: 11 verses
- family: 7 verses
- fulfilled: 11 verses
- genealogy: 7 verses
- utterly: 12 verses
- nine: 11 verses
- beasts: 11 verses
- sanctified: 9 verses
- Noah: 12 verses
- angel: 13 verses
- sick: 9 verses
- Thou: 10 verses
- Abimelech: 9 verses
- armies: 10 verses
- better: 9 verses
- known: 8 verses
- ships: 8 verses
- appearance: 7 verses
- burned: 12 verses
- inheritance: 9 verses
- broad: 9 verses
- ones: 9 verses
- greatly: 11 verses
- loins: 11 verses
- Johanan: 11 verses
- chosen: 9 verses
- John: 10 verses
- pomegranates: 6 verses
- nigh: 12 verses
- drinking: 8 verses
- fall: 8 verses
- idols: 10 verses
- Gentiles: 6 verses
- Pharaoh: 8 verses
- fields: 7 verses
- return: 9 verses
- length: 10 verses
- kept: 12 verses
- merchants: 9 verses
- assembled: 12 verses
- horns: 7 verses
- captive: 8 verses
- wait: 9 verses
- rings: 5 verses
- child: 10 verses
- scribes: 9 verses
- keep: 11 verses
- heavens: 10 verses
- defiled: 8 verses
- wind: 9 verses
- bound: 9 verses
- pitched: 9 verses
- pursued: 7 verses
- dried: 7 verses
- captives: 9 verses
- serve: 7 verses
- Simeon: 8 verses
- Israelites: 7 verses
- sitting: 9 verses
- Elisha: 9 verses
- Pharisees: 10 verses
- tribes: 9 verses
- duke: 4 verses
- committed: 10 verses
- wives: 12 verses
- clothed: 10 verses
- houses: 7 verses
- earthquake: 5 verses
- confounded: 6 verses
- army: 10 verses
- nothing: 9 verses
- breadth: 10 verses
- heavy: 8 verses
- received: 11 verses
- wrath: 7 verses
- Bethel: 8 verses
- heathen: 11 verses
- spoil: 8 verses
- eunuchs: 3 verses
- sanctuary: 11 verses
- joined: 7 verses
- seek: 11 verses
- caused: 8 verses
- wise: 6 verses
- woman: 11 verses
- leaves: 5 verses
- valiant: 10 verses
- times: 9 verses
- ready: 10 verses
- sore: 11 verses
- sister: 9 verses
- rulers: 10 verses
- help: 8 verses
- hour: 9 verses
- wood: 10 verses
- corners: 7 verses
- mind: 8 verses
- glad: 9 verses
- Shechem: 8 verses
- Esau: 7 verses
- corn: 6 verses
- months: 9 verses
- hooks: 8 verses
- anger: 10 verses
- evening: 11 verses
- Merari: 10 verses
- maketh: 3 verses
- spirits: 7 verses
- created: 6 verses
- Wherefore: 9 verses
- hearts: 8 verses
- iron: 10 verses
- Which: 10 verses
- ought: 5 verses
- fallen: 10 verses
- tribute: 9 verses
- possessed: 7 verses
- passover: 7 verses
- abominations: 10 verses