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ὑπὲρ — 291x G5228 ὑπέρ
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Occurrences: 291 times in 250 verses
Speech: Preposition
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:22 - “Moreover I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:9 - And he said to his people, “Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:16 - “Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; a person shall be put to death for his own sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:3 - “Forty blows he may give him and no more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with many blows above these, and your brother be humiliated in your sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:23 - “And your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:5 - “Then the LORD your God will bring you to the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:19 - And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they reverted and behaved more corruptly than their fathers, by following other gods, to serve them and bow down to them. They did not cease from their own doings nor from their stubborn way.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:17 - “for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:30 - Then Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!” And he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than he had killed in his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:13 - “would you wait for them till they were grown? Would you restrain yourselves from having husbands? No, my daughters; for it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me!”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:10 - Then he said, “Blessed are you of the LORD, my daughter! For you have shown more kindness at the end than at the beginning, in that you did not go after young men, whether poor or rich.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 3:12 - “Now it is true that I am a close relative; however, there is a relative closer than I.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:15 - “And may he be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:5 - But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, although the LORD had closed her womb.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:8 - Then Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? And why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:27 - “For this child I prayed, and the LORD has granted me my petition which I asked of Him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:25 - “If one man sins against another, God will judge him. But if a man sins against the LORD, who will intercede for him?” Nevertheless they did not heed the voice of their father, because the LORD desired to kill them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:29 - ‘Why do you kick at My sacrifice and My offering which I have commanded in My dwelling place, and honor your sons more than Me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel My people?'
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:21 - Then she named the child Ichabod,[fn] saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:2 - And he had a choice and handsome son whose name was Saul. There was not a more handsome person than he among the children of Israel. From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:2 - “When you have departed from me today, you will find two men by Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you, ‘The donkeys which you went to look for have been found. And now your father has ceased caring about the donkeys and is worrying about you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?” '
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:23 - So they ran and brought him from there; and when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:19 - And all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we may not die; for we have added to all our sins the evil of asking a king for ourselves.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:22 - So Samuel said:

“Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:28 - So Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:2 - So David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has ordered me on some business, and said to me, ‘Do not let anyone know anything about the business on which I send you, or what I have commanded you.' And I have directed my young men to such and such a place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:17 - Then he said to David: “You are more righteous than I; for you have rewarded me with good, whereas I have rewarded you with evil.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:19 - “The beauty of Israel is slain on your high places!
How the mighty have fallen!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:23 - “Saul and Jonathan were beloved and pleasant in their lives,
And in their death they were not divided;
They were swifter than eagles,
They were stronger than lions.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:26 - I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan;
You have been very pleasant to me;
Your love to me was wonderful,
Surpassing the love of women.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:8 - Then Abner became very angry at the words of Ishbosheth, and said, “Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? Today I show loyalty to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and you charge me today with a fault concerning this woman?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:8 - And David became angry because of the LORD's outbreak against Uzzah; and he called the name of the place Perez Uzzah[fn] to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:21 - So David said to Michal, “It was before the LORD, who chose me instead of your father and all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel. Therefore I will play music before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:19 - “And yet this was a small thing in Your sight, O Lord GOD; and You have also spoken of Your servant's house for a great while to come. Is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:28 - “And now, O Lord GOD, You are God, and Your words are true, and You have promised this goodness to Your servant.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 8:10 - then Toi sent Joram[fn] his son to King David, to greet him and bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him (for Hadadezer had been at war with Toi); and Joram brought with him articles of silver, articles of gold, and articles of bronze.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:5 - When they told David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:11 - Then he said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the people of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:12 - “Be of good courage, and let us be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. And may the LORD do what is good in His sight.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:14 - However, he would not heed her voice; and being stronger than she, he forced her and lay with her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:15 - Then Amnon hated her exceedingly, so that the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. And Amnon said to her, “Arise, be gone!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:16 - So she said to him, “No, indeed! This evil of sending me away is worse than the other that you did to me.” But he would not listen to her.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:14 - So Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The advice of Hushai the Archite is better than the advice of Ahithophel.” For the LORD had purposed to defeat the good advice of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring disaster on Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:5 - Now the king had commanded Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains orders concerning Absalom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:8 - For the battle there was scattered over the face of the whole countryside, and the woods devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:7 - “Now therefore, arise, go out and speak comfort to your servants. For I swear by the LORD, if you do not go out, not one will stay with you this night. And that will be worse for you than all the evil that has befallen you from your youth until now.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:43 - And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten shares in the king; therefore we also have more right to David than you. Why then do you despise us—were we not the first to advise bringing back our king?” Yet the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:6 - And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord's servants and pursue him, lest he find for himself fortified cities, and escape us.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:18 - He delivered me from my strong enemy,
From those who hated me;
For they were too strong for me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:37 - “As the LORD has been with my lord the king, even so may He be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:47 - “And moreover the king's servants have gone to bless our lord King David, saying, ‘May God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and may He make his throne greater than your throne.' Then the king bowed himself on the bed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:22 - And King Solomon answered and said to his mother, “Now why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also—for he is my older brother—for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:32 - “So the LORD will return his blood on his head, because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword—Abner the son of Ner, the commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, the commander of the army of Judah—though my father David did not know it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:30 - Thus Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:31 - For he was wiser than all men—than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:53 - “For You separated them from among all the peoples of the earth to be Your inheritance, as You spoke by Your servant Moses, when You brought our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord GOD.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:26 - King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath[fn] on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:23 - So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:10 - and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods; but he did not keep what the LORD had commanded.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:7 - And also the word of the LORD came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD in provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he killed them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:19 - because of the sins which he had committed in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he had committed to make Israel sin.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:25 - Omri did evil in the eyes of the LORD, and did worse than all who were before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:30 - Now Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:33 - And Ahab made a wooden image.[fn] Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel who were before him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:4 - But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:23 - Then the servants of the king of Syria said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills. Therefore they were stronger than we; but if we fight against them in the plain, surely we will be stronger than they.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:25 - “and you shall muster an army like the army that you have lost, horse for horse and chariot for chariot. Then we will fight against them in the plain; surely we will be stronger than they.” And he listened to their voice and did so.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2 - So Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near, next to my house; and for it I will give you a vineyard better than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:27 - So it was, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his body, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about mourning.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:26 - And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew swords, to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:12 - Are not the Abanah[fn] and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:16 - So he answered, “Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:3 - choose the best qualified of your master's sons, set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:6 - But the children of the murderers he did not execute, according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, in which the LORD commanded, saying, “Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their fathers; but a person shall be put to death for his own sin.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:14 - Nevertheless they would not hear, but stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:34 - ‘For I will defend this city, to save it
For My own sake and for My servant David's sake.' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:6 - “And I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake, and for the sake of My servant David.” ' ”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:9 - But they paid no attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:13 - “Go, inquire of the LORD for me, for the people and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that has been found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is aroused against us, because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:9 - Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez,[fn] saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:21 - Of the three he was more honored than the other two men. Therefore he became their captain. However he did not attain to the first three.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:22 - Benaiah was the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man from Kabzeel, who had done many deeds. He had killed two lion-like heroes of Moab. He also had gone down and killed a lion in the midst of a pit on a snowy day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:25 - Indeed he was more honored than the thirty, but he did not attain to the first three. And David appointed him over his guard.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 18:10 - he sent Hadoram[fn] his son to King David, to greet him and bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him (for Hadadezer had been at war with Tou); and Hadoram brought with him all kinds of articles of gold, silver, and bronze.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 19:12 - Then he said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the people of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:9 - Then the people rejoiced, for they had offered willingly, because with a loyal heart they had offered willingly to the LORD; and King David also rejoiced greatly.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:22 - So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:21 - Now Rehoboam loved Maachah the granddaughter of Absalom more than all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and begot twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:13 - but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot like the harlotry of the house of Ahab, and also have killed your brothers, those of your father's household, who were better than yourself,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:4 - However he did not execute their children, but did as it is written in the Law in the Book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, “The fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall the children be put to death for their fathers; but a person shall die for his own sin.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:18 - For a multitude of the people, many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the good LORD provide atonement for everyone
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:9 - Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:9 - So Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 5:5 - But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, so that they could not make them cease till a report could go to Darius. Then a written answer was returned concerning this matter.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:17 - And they offered sacrifices at the dedication of this house of God, one hundred bulls, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs, and as a sin offering for all Israel twelve male goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:6 - And I said: “O my God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has grown up to the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:23 - And when an inquiry was made into the matter, it was confirmed, and both were hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:8 - He also gave him a copy of the written decree for their destruction, which was given at Shushan, that he might show it to Esther and explain it to her, and that he might command her to go in to the king to make supplication to him and plead before him for her people.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:4 - So Satan answered the LORD and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:5 - Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert,
They go out to their work, searching for food.
The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:18 - No mention shall be made of coral or quartz,
For the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:3 - When His lamp shone upon my head,
And when by His light I walked through darkness;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:1 - To the Chief Musician. With flutes.[fn] A Psalm of David.

Give ear to my words, O LORD,
Consider my meditation.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 6:1 - To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. On an eight-stringed harp.[fn] A Psalm of David.

O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger,
Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:1 - A Meditation[fn] of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjamite.

O LORD my God, in You I put my trust;
Save me from all those who persecute me;
And deliver me,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:7 - So the congregation of the peoples shall surround You;
For their sakes, therefore, return on high.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 8:1 - To the Chief Musician. On the instrument of Gath.[fn] A Psalm of David.

O LORD, our Lord,
How excellent is Your name in all the earth,
Who have set Your glory above the heavens!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:1 - To the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Death of the Son.”[fn] A Psalm of David.

I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart;
I will tell of all Your marvelous works.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:1 - To the Chief Musician. On an eight-stringed harp.[fn] A Psalm of David.

Help, LORD, for the godly man ceases!
For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:17 - He delivered me from my strong enemy,
From those who hated me,
For they were too strong for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:10 - More to be desired are they than gold,
Yea, than much fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:1 - To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Deer of the Dawn.”[fn] A Psalm of David.

My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
Why are You so far from helping Me,
And from the words of My groaning?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:6 - For this cause everyone who is godly shall pray to You
In a time when You may be found;
Surely in a flood of great waters
They shall not come near him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:16 - A little that a righteous man has
Is better than the riches of many wicked.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:18 - For I will declare my iniquity;
I will be in anguish over my sin.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:19 - But my enemies are vigorous, and they are strong;
And those who hate me wrongfully have multiplied.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:11 - When with rebukes You correct man for iniquity,
You make his beauty melt away like a moth;
Surely every man is vapor. Selah
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:5 - Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works
Which You have done;
And Your thoughts toward us
Cannot be recounted to You in order;
If I would declare and speak of them,
They are more than can be numbered.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:12 - For innumerable evils have surrounded me;
My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up;
They are more than the hairs of my head;
Therefore my heart fails me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 45:1 - To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.”[fn] A Contemplation[fn] of the sons of Korah. A Song of Love.

My heart is overflowing with a good theme;
I recite my composition concerning the King;
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:1 - To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. A Song for Alamoth.

God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 47:1 - To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples!
Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:7 - Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:3 - You love evil more than good,
Lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:1 - To the Chief Musician. Set to “Mahalath.” A Contemplation[fn] of David.

The fool has said in his heart,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity;
There is none who does good.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:21 - The words of his mouth were smoother than butter,
But war was in his heart;
His words were softer than oil,
Yet they were drawn swords.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:1 - To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Silent Dove in Distant Lands.”[fn] A Michtam of David when the Philistines captured him in Gath.

Be merciful to me, O God, for man would swallow me up;
Fighting all day he oppresses me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:7 - Shall they escape by iniquity?
In anger cast down the peoples, O God!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 62:1 - To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

Truly my soul silently waits for God;
From Him comes my salvation.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:3 - Because Your lovingkindness is better than life,
My lips shall praise You.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:5 - Come and see the works of God;
He is awesome in His doing toward the sons of men.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:1 - To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.”[fn] A Psalm of David.

Save me, O God!
For the waters have come up to my neck.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:4 - Those who hate me without a cause
Are more than the hairs of my head;
They are mighty who would destroy me,
Being my enemies wrongfully;
Though I have stolen nothing,
I still must restore it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:31 - This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bull,
Which has horns and hooves.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:16 - There will be an abundance of grain in the earth,
On the top of the mountains;
Its fruit shall wave like Lebanon;
And those of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:1 - To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph.

I cried out to God with my voice—
To God with my voice;
And He gave ear to me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:1 - To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Lilies.”[fn] A Testimony[fn] of Asaph. A Psalm.

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,
You who lead Joseph like a flock;
You who dwell between the cherubim, shine forth!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:1 - To the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath.[fn] A Psalm of Asaph.

Sing aloud to God our strength;
Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:1 - To the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath.[fn] A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

How lovely is Your tabernacle,
O LORD of hosts!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:10 - For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 87:2 - The LORD loves the gates of Zion
More than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:1 - A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician. Set to “Mahalath Leannoth.” A Contemplation[fn] of Heman the Ezrahite.

O LORD, God of my salvation,
I have cried out day and night before You.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:9 - For You, LORD, are most high above all the earth;
You are exalted far above all gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:14 - He permitted no one to do them wrong;
Yes, He rebuked kings for their sakes,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:24 - He increased His people greatly,
And made them stronger than their enemies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:72 - The law of Your mouth is better to me
Than thousands of coins of gold and silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:98 - You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies;
For they are ever with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:99 - I have more understanding than all my teachers,
For Your testimonies are my meditation.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:100 - I understand more than the ancients,
Because I keep Your precepts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:103 - How sweet are Your words to my taste,
Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:127 - Therefore I love Your commandments
More than gold, yes, than fine gold!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 131:1 - A Song of Ascents. Of David.

LORD, my heart is not haughty,
Nor my eyes lofty.
Neither do I concern myself with great matters,
Nor with things too profound for me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 138:8 - The LORD will perfect that which concerns me;
Your mercy, O LORD, endures forever;
Do not forsake the works of Your hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:18 - If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;
When I awake, I am still with You.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 142:6 - Attend to my cry,
For I am brought very low;
Deliver me from my persecutors,
For they are stronger than I.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:10 - Receive my instruction, and not silver,
And knowledge rather than choice gold;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:19 - My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold,
And my revenue than choice silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:16 - How much better to get wisdom than gold!
And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:1 - A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,
Loving favor rather than silver and gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:7 - I acquired male and female servants, and had servants born in my house. Yes, I had greater possessions of herds and flocks than all who were in Jerusalem before me.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:13 - Then I saw that wisdom excels folly
As light excels darkness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:2 - Therefore I praised the dead who were already dead,
More than the living who are still alive.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:3 - Yet, better than both is he who has never existed,
Who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:6 - Better a handful with quietness
Than both hands full, together with toil and grasping for the wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:9 - Two are better than one,
Because they have a good reward for their labor.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:13 - Better a poor and wise youth
Than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:1 - Walk prudently when you go to the house of God; and draw near to hear rather than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:3 - If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he—
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:5 - Though it has not seen the sun or known anything, this has more rest than that man,
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:8 - For what more has the wise man than the fool?
What does the poor man have,
Who knows how to walk before the living?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:9 - Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire.
This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:10 - Whatever one is, he has been named already,
For it is known that he is man;
And he cannot contend with Him who is mightier than he.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:1 - A good name is better than precious ointment,
And the day of death than the day of one's birth;
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:3 - Sorrow is better than laughter,
For by a sad countenance the heart is made better.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:5 - It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise
Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:8 - The end of a thing is better than its beginning;
The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:10 - Do not say,
“Why were the former days better than these?”
For you do not inquire wisely concerning this.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:19 - Wisdom strengthens the wise
More than ten rulers of the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:24 - As for that which is far off and exceedingly deep,
Who can find it out?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:26 - And I find more bitter than death
The woman whose heart is snares and nets,
Whose hands are fetters.
He who pleases God shall escape from her,
But the sinner shall be trapped by her.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:4 - But for him who is joined to all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:16 - Then I said:

“Wisdom is better than strength.
Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised,
And his words are not heard.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:17 - Words of the wise, spoken quietly, should be heard
Rather than the shout of a ruler of fools.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:18 - Wisdom is better than weapons of war;
But one sinner destroys much good.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:1 - Dead flies putrefy[fn] the perfumer's ointment,
And cause it to give off a foul odor;
So does a little folly to one respected for wisdom and honor.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:2 - The Shulamite[fn]
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth—
For your[fn] love is better than wine.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:3 - Because of the fragrance of your good ointments,
Your name is ointment poured forth;
Therefore the virgins love you.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 1:4 - Draw me away!

The Daughters of Jerusalem
We will run after you.[fn]

The Shulamite
The king has brought me into his chambers.

The Daughters of Jerusalem
We will be glad and rejoice in you.[fn]
We will remember your[fn] love more than wine.

The Shulamite
Rightly do they love you.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:10 - How fair is your love,
My sister, my spouse!
How much better than wine is your love,
And the scent of your perfumes
Than all spices!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:5 - Like birds flying about,
So will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem.
Defending, He will also deliver it;
Passing over, He will preserve it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:10 - And the ransomed of the LORD shall return,
And come to Zion with singing,
With everlasting joy on their heads.
They shall obtain joy and gladness,
And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:35 - ‘For I will defend this city, to save it
For My own sake and for My servant David's sake.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:6 - “I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.” '
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:3 - For I am the LORD your God,
The Holy One of Israel, your Savior;
I gave Egypt for your ransom,
Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:4 - Since you were precious in My sight,
You have been honored,
And I have loved you;
Therefore I will give men for you,
And people for your life.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:9 - You went to the king with ointment,
And increased your perfumes;
You sent your messengers far off,
And even descended to Sheol.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:7 - Instead of your shame you shall have double honor,
And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion.
Therefore in their land they shall possess double;
Everlasting joy shall be theirs.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:3 - O LORD, are not Your eyes on the truth?
You have stricken them,
But they have not grieved;
You have consumed them,
But they have refused to receive correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to return.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:1 - “O you children of Benjamin,
Gather yourselves to flee from the midst of Jerusalem!
Blow the trumpet in Tekoa,
And set up a signal-fire in Beth Haccerem;
For disaster appears out of the north,
And great destruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:26 - “Yet they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:8 - Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas;
I will bring against them,
Against the mother of the young men,
A plunderer at noonday;
I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them suddenly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:12 - ‘And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, each one follows the dictates of his own evil heart, so that no one listens to Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:23 - “But they did not obey nor incline their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear nor receive instruction.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:20 - Shall evil be repaid for good?
For they have dug a pit for my life.
Remember that I stood before You
To speak good for them,
To turn away Your wrath from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:8 - “I will make this city desolate and a hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:23 - “They shall cut down her forest,” says the LORD,
“Though it cannot be searched,
Because they are innumerable,
And more numerous than grasshoppers.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:6 - The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people
Is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,
Which was overthrown in a moment,
With no hand to help her!
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:7 - Her Nazirites[fn] were brighter than snow
And whiter than milk;
They were more ruddy in body than rubies,
Like sapphire in their appearance.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:8 - Now their appearance is blacker than soot;
They go unrecognized in the streets;
Their skin clings to their bones,
It has become as dry as wood.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:19 - Our pursuers were swifter
Than the eagles of the heavens.
They pursued us on the mountains
And lay in wait for us in the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:22 - The likeness of the firmament above the heads of the living creatures[fn] was like the color of an awesome crystal, stretched out over their heads.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:25 - A voice came from above the firmament that was over their heads; whenever they stood, they let down their wings.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:1 - “And you, son of man, take a sharp sword, take it as a barber's razor, and pass it over your head and your beard; then take scales to weigh and divide the hair.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:1 - And I looked, and there in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim, there appeared something like a sapphire stone, having the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:51 - “Samaria did not commit half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters by all the abominations which you have done.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:52 - “You who judged your sisters, bear your own shame also, because the sins which you committed were more abominable than theirs; they are more righteous than you. Yes, be disgraced also, and bear your own shame, because you justified your sisters.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:11 - “Now although her sister Oholibah saw this, she became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotry more corrupt than her sister's harlotry.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:21 - ‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, I will profane My sanctuary, your arrogant boast, the desire of your eyes, the delight of your soul; and your sons and daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:39 - In the vestibule of the gateway were two tables on this side and two tables on that side, on which to slay the burnt offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:22 - ‘On the second day you shall offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they cleansed it with the bull.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:25 - ‘Every day for seven days you shall prepare a goat for a sin offering; they shall also prepare a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:29 - “They shall eat the grain offering, the sin offering, and the trespass offering; every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:17 - “Then it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the New Moons, the Sabbaths, and at all the appointed seasons of the house of Israel. He shall prepare the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:22 - “And on that day the prince shall prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:23 - “On the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, daily for seven days, and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:25 - “In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall do likewise for seven days, according to the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:20 - And he said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out into the outer court to sanctify the people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:15 - And at the end of ten days their features appeared better and fatter in flesh than all the young men who ate the portion of the king's delicacies.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:18 - that they might seek mercies from the God of heaven concerning this secret, so that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 6:3 - Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:8 - “And he shall also carry their gods captive to Egypt, with their princes[fn] and their precious articles of silver and gold; and he shall continue more years than the king of the North.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:13 - “For the king of the North will return and muster a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come at the end of some years with a great army and much equipment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:3 - Tell your children about it,
Let your children tell their children,
And their children another generation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:8 - Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth
For the husband of her youth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:11 - Be ashamed, you farmers,
Wail, you vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the harvest of the field has perished.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:2 - I will also gather all nations,
And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
And I will enter into judgment with them there
On account of My people, My heritage Israel,
Whom they have scattered among the nations;
They have also divided up My land.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 1:1 - The words of Amos, who was among the sheepbreeders[fn] of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:6 - And the LORD God prepared a plant[fn] and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah was very grateful for the plant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:10 - But the LORD said, “You have had pity on the plant for which you have not labored, nor made it grow, which came up in a night and perished in a night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:11 - “And should I not pity Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their right hand and their left—and much livestock?”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:1 - The word of the LORD that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:7 - Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams,
Ten thousand rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:14 - The LORD has given a command concerning you:
“Your name shall be perpetuated no longer.
Out of the house of your gods
I will cut off the carved image and the molded image.
I will dig your grave,
For you are vile.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:9 - Take spoil of silver!
Take spoil of gold!
There is no end of treasure,
Or wealth of every desirable prize.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:14 - Draw your water for the siege!
Fortify your strongholds!
Go into the clay and tread the mortar!
Make strong the brick kiln!
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:16 - You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven.
The locust plunders and flies away.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:8 - Their horses also are swifter than leopards,
And more fierce than evening wolves.
Their chargers charge ahead;
Their cavalry comes from afar;
They fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:9 - ‘The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,' says the LORD of hosts. ‘And in this place I will give peace,' says the LORD of hosts.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:13 - And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—that princely price they set on me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD for the potter.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:8 - “In that day the LORD will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of the LORD before them.
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