Lexicon :: Strong's H349 - 'êḵ

Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’? ”

Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”

“No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do this immense evil, and how could I sin against God? ”

“We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found at the top of our bags. How could we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?

“For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the grief that would overwhelm my father.”

But Moses said in the LORD’s presence, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am such a poor speaker? ”[fn]

But Moses replied in the LORD’s presence, “Since I am such a poor speaker, how will Pharaoh listen to me? ”

“But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes by myself?

“If you say to yourself, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out? ’

“be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, ‘How did these nations worship their gods? I’ll also do the same.’

“You may say to yourself, ‘How can we recognize a message the LORD has not spoken? ’

How could one pursue a thousand,

or two put ten thousand to flight,

unless their Rock had sold them,

unless the LORD had given them up?

The men of Israel replied to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us. How can we make a treaty with you? ”

“How can you say, ‘I love you,’ ” she told him, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and not told me what makes your strength so great! ”

The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.

The Israelites asked, “Tell us, how did this evil act happen? ”

Naomi said, “My daughter, wait until you find out how things go, for he won’t rest unless he resolves this today.”

Samuel asked, “How can I go? Saul will hear about it and kill me! ”

The LORD answered, “Take a young cow with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’

David asked the young man who had brought him the report, “How do you know Saul and his son Jonathan are dead? ”

David questioned him, “How is it that you were not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed? ”

The splendor of Israel lies slain on your heights.

How the mighty have fallen!

How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle!

Jonathan lies slain on your heights.

How the mighty have fallen

and the weapons of war have perished!

Once again, Abner warned Asahel, “Stop chasing me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How could I ever look your brother Joab in the face? ”

David feared the LORD that day and said, “How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me? ”

On the seventh day the baby died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him the baby was dead. They said, “Look, while the baby was alive, we spoke to him, and he wouldn’t listen to us. So how can we tell him the baby is dead? He may do something desperate.”

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, “How do you advise me to respond to this people? ”

When the servant of the man of God got up early and went out, he discovered an army with horses and chariots surrounding the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do? ”

However, they were terrified and reasoned, “Look, two kings couldn’t stand against him; how can we? ”

So one of the priests they had deported came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should fear the LORD.

“How then can you drive back a single officer among the least of my master’s servants? How can you rely on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had attended his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, “How do you advise me to respond to this people? ”

“For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives? ”

So how can you offer me such futile comfort?

Your answers are deceptive.

I have taken refuge in the LORD.

How can you say to me,

“Escape to the mountains[fn] like a bird!

The wicked say, “How can God know?

Does the Most High know everything? ”

How suddenly they become a desolation!

They come to an end, swept away by terrors.

How can we sing the LORD’s song

on foreign soil?

and you will say, “How I hated discipline,

and how my heart despised correction.

For, just like the fool, there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, since in the days to come both will be forgotten. How is it that the wise person dies just like the fool?

Also, if two lie down together, they can keep warm; but how can one person alone keep warm?

Tell me, you whom I love:

Where do you pasture your sheep?

Where do you let them rest at noon?

Why should I be like one who veils herself[fn]

beside the flocks of your companions?

I have taken off my clothing.

How can I put it back on?

I have washed my feet.

How can I get them dirty?

The faithful town —

what an adulteress[fn] she has become!

She was once full of justice.

Righteousness once dwelt in her,

but now, murderers!

you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon and say:

How the oppressor has quieted down,

and how the raging[fn] has become quiet!

Shining morning star,[fn]

how you have fallen from the heavens!

You destroyer of nations,

you have been cut down to the ground.

The princes of Zoan are complete fools;

Pharaoh’s wisest advisers give stupid advice!

How can you say to Pharaoh,

“I am one[fn] of the wise,

a student of eastern[fn] kings”?

“And the inhabitants of this coastland will say on that day, ‘Look, this is what has happened to those we relied on and fled to for help to rescue us from the king of Assyria! Now, how will we escape? ’ ”

“How then can you drive back a single officer among the least of my master’s servants? How can you rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

“I will act for my own sake, indeed, my own,

for how can I[fn] be defiled?

I will not give my glory to another.

I planted you, a choice vine

from the very best seed.

How then could you turn into

a degenerate, foreign vine?

How can you protest, “I am not defiled;

I have not followed the Baals”?

Look at your behavior in the valley;

acknowledge what you have done.

You are a swift young camel

twisting and turning on her way,