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/ל (l) means “to/for” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

/ל Hebrew · H9005 20,810 tagged occurrences in 12,010 verses

Pronunciation guide: l STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.

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TBESH · H9005

/ל · l · to/for

Prefix lamed: to

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Verses containing H9005

Page 97 of 241. 12010 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. 2 Samuel 12:9 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own. You have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

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  2. 2 Samuel 12:10 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

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  3. 2 Samuel 12:11 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.

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  4. 2 Samuel 12:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.

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  5. 2 Samuel 12:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Nevertheless, because by this deed you have shown utter contempt for the word of the LORD, the son born to you will surely die.”

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  6. 2 Samuel 12:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.

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  7. 2 Samuel 12:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The elders of his household stood beside him to help him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat anything with them.

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  8. 2 Samuel 12:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”

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  9. 2 Samuel 12:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate.

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  10. 2 Samuel 12:23 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But now that he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

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  11. 2 Samuel 12:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

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  12. 2 Samuel 13:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.

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  13. 2 Samuel 13:2 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    Amnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to do anything to her.

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  14. 2 Samuel 13:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man,

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  15. 2 Samuel 13:4 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    and he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the son of the king, so depressed morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon replied, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”

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  16. 2 Samuel 13:5 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”

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  17. 2 Samuel 13:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”

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  18. 2 Samuel 13:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”

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  19. 2 Samuel 13:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Tamar went to the house of her brother Amnon, who was lying down. She took some dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked them.

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  20. 2 Samuel 13:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then she brought the pan and set it down before him, but he refused to eat. “Send everyone away!” said Amnon. And everyone went out.

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  21. 2 Samuel 13:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.

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  22. 2 Samuel 13:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come lie with me, my sister!”

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  23. 2 Samuel 13:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not violate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!

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  24. 2 Samuel 13:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But Amnon refused to listen to her, and being stronger, he violated her and lay with her.

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  25. 2 Samuel 13:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”

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  26. 2 Samuel 13:16 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    “No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.

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  27. 2 Samuel 13:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.

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  28. 2 Samuel 13:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When King David heard all this, he was furious.

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  29. 2 Samuel 13:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon for violating his sister Tamar.

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  30. 2 Samuel 13:23 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.

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  31. 2 Samuel 13:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”

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  32. 2 Samuel 13:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “No, my son,” the king replied, “we should not all go, or we would be a burden to you.” Although Absalom urged him, he was not willing to go, but gave him his blessing.

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  33. 2 Samuel 13:26 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “If not,” said Absalom, “please let my brother Amnon go with us.” “Why should he go with you?” the king asked.

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  34. 2 Samuel 13:28 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”

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  35. 2 Samuel 13:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had ordered. Then all the other sons of the king got up, and each one fled on his mule.

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  36. 2 Samuel 13:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    While they were on the way, a report reached David: “Absalom has struck down all the sons of the king; not one of them is left!”

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  37. 2 Samuel 13:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.

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  38. 2 Samuel 13:33 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    So now, my lord the king, do not take to heart the report that all the sons of the king are dead. Only Amnon is dead.”

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  39. 2 Samuel 13:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And as he finished speaking, the sons of the king came in, wailing loudly. Then the king and all his servants also wept very bitterly.

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  40. 2 Samuel 13:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And King David longed to go to Absalom, for he had been consoled over Amnon’s death.

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  41. 2 Samuel 14:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “What troubles you?” the king asked her. “Indeed,” she said, “I am a widow, for my husband is dead.

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  42. 2 Samuel 14:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And your maidservant had two sons who were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.

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  43. 2 Samuel 14:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”

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  44. 2 Samuel 14:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Go home,” the king said to the woman, “and I will give orders on your behalf.”

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  45. 2 Samuel 14:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “If anyone speaks to you,” said the king, “bring him to me, and he will not trouble you again!”

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  46. 2 Samuel 14:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Please,” she replied, “may the king invoke the LORD your God to prevent the avenger of blood from increasing the devastation, so that my son may not be destroyed!” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he vowed, “not a hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”

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  47. 2 Samuel 14:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?

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  48. 2 Samuel 14:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

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  49. 2 Samuel 14:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.

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  50. 2 Samuel 14:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    For the king will hear and deliver his maidservant from the hand of the man who would cut off both me and my son from God’s inheritance.’

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