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a.yin H5869

עַ֫יִן (a.yin) means “eye” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

עַ֫יִן Hebrew · H5869 887 tagged occurrences in 827 verses

Pronunciation guide: ah'-yin Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H5869A

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · eye

: eye 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

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TBESH · H5869B

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · Fountain (Gate)

§ spring, fountain

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TBESH · H5869G

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · Fountain of

§ spring, fountain

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TBESH · H5869H

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · eye: seeing

: seeing 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

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TBESH · H5869I

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · eye: appearance

: appearance 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

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TBESH · H5869J

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · eye: before(the eyes)

: before(the_eyes) 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

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TBESH · H5869K

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · eye: sin

: sin 1) eye 1a) eye 1a1) of physical eye 1a2) as showing mental qualities 1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

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TBESH · H5869M

עַ֫יִן · a.yin · spring

spring, fountain

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

probably a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)

KJV glosses: affliction, outward appearance, [phrase] before, [phrase] think best, colour, conceit, [phrase] be content, countenance, [phrase] displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, [phrase] favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), [idiom] him, [phrase] humble, knowledge, look, ([phrase] well), [idiom] me, open(-ly), [phrase] (not) please, presence, [phrase] regard, resemblance, sight, [idiom] thee, [idiom] them, [phrase] think, [idiom] us, well, [idiom] you(-rselves).

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How translators render H5869

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
in the sight	106
my eyes	51
your eyes	38
in the eyes	36
in your sight	29
eyes	27
his eyes	25
the eyes	19
eye	17
in my sight	16
in your eyes	16
in his sight	12
their eyes	11
with your own eyes	11
in his own eyes	10
in the presence	9
the eye	8
before their eyes	7
before your very eyes	6
before your eyes	5
in his eyes	5
in their sight	5
our eyes	5
sight	5
the spring	5
to the eyes	5
to you	5
and his eyes	4
and my eyes	4
as they watch	4
before his eyes	4
from my eyes	4
the face	4
the fountain	4
to him	4
your sight	4
before	3
before our eyes	3
her eyes	3
in full view	3
in my eyes	3
may your eyes	3
of your eyes	3
seemed	3
they have eyes	3
to my eyes	3
up my eyes	3
with his eyes	3
with my own eyes	3
with your eyes	3
you	3
a spring	2
and	2
and your eyes	2
as the eyes	2
but the eyes	2
do you really believe	2
him	2
his sight	2
in their own eyes	2
in your own eyes	2
let your eyes	2
look	2
look on them	2
me	2
of his eye	2
springs	2
to	2
to eye	2
to the spring	2
vvv	2
what you think	2
whose eyes	2
with eyes	2
your own eyes	2
a gleam	1
and as i watched	1
and as they watch	1
and eyes	1
and fountains	1
and his gaze	1
and in full view of the people	1
and in the presence	1
and it seemed	1
and its appearance	1
and let us feast our eyes	1
and let your eyes	1
and may the eyes	1
and the eyes	1
and those who	1
and thought	1
and turn their eyes	1
and watch	1
and your own eyes	1
appear to you	1
are their eyes	1
as for the eye	1
as he looks on	1
as i watched	1
as my eyes	1
as the gleam	1
as they watched	1
as you please	1
as you see	1
be	1
before them	1
but his eyes	1
but pay no regard	1
but your eyes	1
by	1
by the spring	1
by what his eyes	1
can see it	1
do you have eyes	1
do your eyes	1
every eye	1
eyesight	1
face	1
for eye	1
for myself	1
from	1
from his sight	1
from my sight	1
from the eyes	1
glance of your eyes	1
gleamed	1
gleaming	1
he sees	1
his eye	1
his eyes are	1
his eyes tightly	1
i valued	1
i will cause your eyes	1
i will not look upon you	1
in appearance	1
in my presence	1
in our eyes	1
in our own sight	1
in the sight of the people	1
in your presence	1
iniquity	1
is their iniquity	1
it seemed	1
it seems	1
it with your own eyes	1
let his eyes	1
let your eyes be on	1
like	1
like the gleam	1
look after	1
look in his eyes	1
man has eyes	1
may their eyes	1
my eyes favor	1
my sight	1
myself	1
of my eyes	1
of the eyes	1
of the springs	1
of their eyes	1
of your eye	1
our eyes are	1
our very eyes	1
pleased	1
presence	1
regard it	1
seem	1
show pity	1
sight of them	1
sight of this	1
so that you look upon	1
so the eyes	1
that our eyes	1
the gleam	1
the notice	1
the outward appearance	1
the well	1
them	1
then the eyes	1
this spring	1
thought	1
to displease	1
to face	1
to his eyes	1
to our eyes	1
to see	1
to the eye	1
to your eyes	1
to your face	1
transgression	1
turn your eyes	1
us	1
value	1
was a gleam	1
was also displeased	1
was like that	1
were pleased	1
what the eye	1
whatever seems	1
when the fountains	1
when they saw	1
wherever it seems	1
while they watch	1
while your eyes	1
who has an eye	1
who have eyes	1
whose eyesight	1
with my eyes	1
with their eyes	1
with you	1
with yourselves	1
without the knowledge	1
yet his eyes	1
you considered	1
you please	1
you saw him	1
you will look	1
your eye	1
your eyes look	1
your very eyes	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
in the sight	118
mine eyes	35
his eyes	33
in thy sight	27
thine eyes	27
in the eyes	22
the eyes	19
in my sight	16
mine eye	13
their eyes	13
eyes	12
in their sight	12
in thine eyes	12
eye	11
in his sight	10
pleased	10
and his eyes	9
before their eyes	9
before	7
in his own eyes	7
in your eyes	7
the eye	7
and thine eyes	6
your eyes	6
and mine eyes	5
and the eyes	5
before mine eyes	5
before your eyes	5
in mine eyes	5
of thine eyes	5
with thine eyes	5
and mine eye	4
as the colour	4
before his eyes	4
before thine eyes	4
displeased	4
from mine eyes	4
her eyes	4
in his eyes	4
in his own conceit	4
in the presence	4
in whose sight	4
of eyes	4
the face	4
well	4
which thine eyes	4
and in the sight	3
between thine eyes	3
for eye	3
from the eyes	3
in their own eyes	3
look	3
looks	3
now thine eyes	3
of the eyes	3
our eyes	3
that thine eyes	3
unto the well	3
what seemeth	3
with his eyes	3
and in the eyes	2
and in the presence	2
and their eyes	2
and thine eye	2
be in his sight	2
before our eyes	2
between his eyes	2
between your eyes	2
but having his eyes	2
but the eyes	2
but thine eyes	2
by a fountain	2
by the well	2
for his eyes	2
for mine eyes	2
for the eyes	2
from thine eyes	2
his colour	2
his eye	2
in her eyes	2
in our sight	2
in them in the sight	2
in your sight	2
it pleased	2
let thine eyes	2
not eyes	2
of his eye	2
of his eyes	2
of the fountain	2
of their eyes	2
of thine eye	2
thee in the sight	2
them before your eyes	2
thereof as the colour	2
thine eye	2
thinkest	2
to the eyes	2
unto thee	2
which have eyes	2
whose eyes	2
with mine eyes	2
with the eye	2
with their eyes	2
all that seemed	1
also	1
also was displeased	1
an open	1
and	1
and also in the sight	1
and as for me also mine eye	1
and at the fountain	1
and behold your eyes	1
and convenient	1
and eyes	1
and he thought	1
and his eye	1
and his eyebrows	1
and i will look well	1
and it displease	1
and it displeased	1
and it pleased	1
and let our eye	1
and let thine eyes	1
and no eye	1
and so we were in their sight	1
and that seemed good	1
and that the eyes	1
and the colour	1
and they seemed	1
and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes	1
and we were in our own sight	1
and what do thy eyes	1
and whatsoever mine eyes	1
and your eyes	1
and your own eyes	1
any more but thine eyes	1
are their eyes	1
as for us our eyes	1
as it seemeth	1
as seemed	1
as the eyes	1
as thine eyes	1
at the well	1
before the eyes	1
behold as the eyes	1
behold the eye	1
behold the eyes	1
but mine eyes	1
but now mine eye	1
but our eyes	1
but your eyes	1
by a well	1
by the fountain	1
countenance	1
displease	1
even the eyes	1
eyed	1
face	1
for me	1
for myself and mine eyes	1
for thine eyes	1
for us that our eyes	1
fountains	1
from his face	1
from me and with their eyes	1
from my sight	1
furrows	1
hast thou eyes	1
he was content	1
her eye	1
her face	1
her for me for she pleaseth me well	1
him and look well	1
him and they pleased	1
him before their eyes	1
himself in his own eyes	1
i pray you how mine eyes	1
i was eyes	1
if it seem good	1
if she please	1
in his eye	1
in his eye sight	1
in his eyesight	1
in mine own sight	1
in our eyes	1
in their eyes	1
in thine own eyes	1
in thine own sight	1
in thyself in the sight	1
in whose eyes	1
in you before	1
in you before their eyes	1
it displeased	1
it unto whom it seemed	1
it with his eyes	1
it with thine eyes	1
let i beseech thee thine eyes	1
let it not displease	1
let not your eye	1
let their eyes	1
like in colour	1
like the colour	1
like unto the colour	1
lo mine eye	1
looketh	1
me and i shall seem	1
me and when the eye	1
me in the eyes	1
me now therefore if it displease thee	1
neither hath the eye	1
neither have our eyes	1
neither is his eye	1
neither shall mine eye	1
neither shall thine eyes	1
nevertheless mine eye	1
no eye	1
no eyes	1
none eye	1
nor mine eyes	1
not his eyes	1
not in your eyes	1
not thine eyes	1
now mine eyes	1
now the eyes	1
now therefore in the sight	1
of fountains	1
of mine eyes	1
of the eye	1
of the fountains	1
of thee in the sight	1
of thy sight	1
of your eyes	1
on mine affliction	1
on the outward appearance	1
only with thine eyes	1
openly	1
or have caused the eyes	1
or the eye	1
our eye	1
out of his sight	1
over him in thy sight	1
peradventure it will please	1
person	1
pleased me well	1
seemeth	1
should seem vile	1
sight	1
so in the sight	1
so our eyes	1
so the eyes	1
that it pleased	1
that thou displease	1
that which seemeth	1
the fountain	1
the fountains	1
thee in the presence	1
thee not	1
thee thine eye	1
thee with mine eye	1
their eye	1
their resemblance	1
them and your eyes	1
them with her eyes	1
then it had pleased thee well	1
then the eyes	1
then was i in his eyes	1
thereof then your eyes	1
thereof when the eyes	1
thinking to have brought	1
thou mine eyes	1
thou unto us whatsoever seemeth	1
thought	1
thy eyes	1
thy face	1
to eye	1
to face	1
to her as it pleaseth thee	1
to him that which shall seem good	1
to him what shall seem good	1
to me as seemeth	1
to mine eyes	1
to the eye	1
to the well	1
to thee	1
to thine eyes	1
to whom they think	1
unto	1
unto him	1
unto him in the presence	1
unto him in the sight	1
unto him neither shall thine eye	1
unto thee but if it seem ill	1
unto them if ye think	1
unto them let mine eyes	1
unto them what seemeth	1
upon his eyes	1
upon his face	1
upon thee in the sight	1
upon thine eyes	1
us	1
was displeased	1
wells	1
what he thought	1
whatsoever seemeth	1
where it pleaseth	1
wheresoever it seemeth convenient	1
which pleaseth	1
whom	1
whom thine eyes	1
with me and doth not mine eye	1
with me as seemeth	1
with them as it seemeth	1
with them what seemeth	1
with us all that seemeth	1
with your eyes	1
with yourselves	1
without the knowledge	1
yet his eyes	1
you	1

Verses containing H5869

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2 Samuel 14:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
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2 Samuel 15:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again.
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2 Samuel 15:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But if He should say, ‘I do not delight in you,’ then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him.”
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2 Samuel 16:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the king said to Ziba, “All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours!” “I humbly bow before you,” said Ziba. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king!”
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2 Samuel 16:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”
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2 Samuel 16:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
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2 Samuel 17:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
This proposal seemed good to Absalom and all the elders of Israel.
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2 Samuel 18:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“I will do whatever seems best to you,” the king replied. So he stood beside the gate, while all the troops marched out by hundreds and by thousands.
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2 Samuel 18:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out, and saw a man running alone.
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2 Samuel 19:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!
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Source alternate reference: 19.7
2 Samuel 19:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and crossed at the ford to carry over the king’s household and to do what was good in his sight. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king
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Source alternate reference: 19.19
2 Samuel 19:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and he has slandered your servant to my lord the king. Yet my lord the king is like the angel of God, so do what is good in your eyes.
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Source alternate reference: 19.28
2 Samuel 19:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham. Let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”
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Source alternate reference: 19.38
2 Samuel 19:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The king replied, “Chimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him what is good in your sight, and I will do for you whatever you desire of me.”
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Source alternate reference: 19.39
2 Samuel 20:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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, or he will find fortified cities and elude us.”
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2 Samuel 22:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His sight.
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2 Samuel 22:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
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2 Samuel 24:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Joab replied to the king, “May the LORD your God multiply the troops a hundred times over, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it. But why does my lord the king want to do such a thing?”
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2 Samuel 24:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Araunah said to David, “May my lord the king take whatever seems good to him and offer it up. Here are the oxen for a burnt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.
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1 Kings 1:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And as for you, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are upon you to tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
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1 Kings 1:48 · BSB · 1 occurrence
saying, ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel! Today He has provided one to sit on my throne, and my eyes have seen it.’”
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1 Kings 3:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now it pleased the Lord that Solomon had made this request.
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1 Kings 8:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
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1 Kings 8:52 · BSB · 1 occurrence
May Your eyes be open to the pleas of Your servant and of Your people Israel, and may You listen to them whenever they call to You.
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1 Kings 9:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
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1 Kings 9:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Hiram went out from Tyre to inspect the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.
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1 Kings 10:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But I did not believe these things until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half was told to me. Your wisdom and prosperity have far exceeded the report I heard.
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1 Kings 11:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely.
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1 Kings 11:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
There Hadad found such great favor in the sight of Pharaoh that he gave to him in marriage the sister of Queen Tahpenes, his own wife.
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1 Kings 11:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.
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1 Kings 11:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If you listen to all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and commandments as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
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1 Kings 14:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Jeroboam’s wife did as instructed; she arose and went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.
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1 Kings 14:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.
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1 Kings 14:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.
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1 Kings 15:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
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1 Kings 15:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done.
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1 Kings 15:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.
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1 Kings 15:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Baasha did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit.
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1 Kings 16:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Moreover, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, because of all the evil he had done in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands and becoming like the house of Jeroboam, and also because Baasha had struck down the house of Jeroboam.
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1 Kings 16:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
because of the sins he had committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD and following the example of Jeroboam and the sin he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.
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1 Kings 16:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD and acted more wickedly than all who were before him.
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1 Kings 16:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
However, Ahab son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD, more than all who were before him.
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1 Kings 20:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But about this time tomorrow I will send my servants to search your palace and the houses of your servants. They will seize and carry away all that is precious to you.’”
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1 Kings 20:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and the prophet went and waited on the road for the king, disguising himself with a bandage over his eyes.
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1 Kings 20:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the prophet quickly removed the bandage from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him as one of the prophets.
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1 Kings 21:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, since it is next to my palace. I will give you a better vineyard in its place—or if you prefer, I will give you its value in silver.”
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1 Kings 21:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.” He replied, “I have found you out because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD.
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1 Kings 21:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
(Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel.
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1 Kings 22:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Jehoshaphat walked in all the ways of his father Asa; he did not turn away from them, but did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
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1 Kings 22:52 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the ways of his father and mother and of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin.
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Source alternate reference: 22.53

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