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2,685 verses for Imperative
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Imperative — A direct command (“write!”).
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- Judges
- Judges 21:22 חָנּ֣וּ/נוּ It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty.
- Ruth
- Ruth 1:8 לֵ֣כְנָה שֹּׁ֔בְנָה Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's house: Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.
- Ruth 1:9 וּ/מְצֶ֣אןָ Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
- Ruth 1:11 שֹׁ֣בְנָה Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will you go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
- Ruth 1:12 שֹׁ֤בְנָה לֵ֔כְןָ Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons;
- Ruth 1:15 שׁ֖וּבִי She said, Behold, your sister-in-law is gone back to her people, and to her god: return you after your sister-in-law.
- Ruth 1:20 קְרֶ֤אןָ She said to them, "Don't call me Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
- Ruth 2:2 לְכִ֥י Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor. She said to her, Go, my daughter.
- Ruth 2:14 גֹּ֤שִֽׁי At meal-time Boaz said to her, Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar. She sat beside the reapers, and they reached her parched grain, and she ate, and was sufficed, and left of it.
- Ruth 3:13 לִ֣ינִי שִׁכְבִ֖י Stay this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform to you the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to you, then will I do the part of a kinsman to you, as Yahweh lives: lie down until the morning.
- Ruth 3:15 וְ/אֶֽחֳזִי הָ֠בִי He said, Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it; and she held it; and he measured six [measures] of barley, and laid it on her: and he went into the city.
- Ruth 3:18 שְׁבִ֣י Then said she, "Sit still, my daughter, until you know how the matter will fall; for the man will not rest, until he has finished the thing this day."
- Ruth 4:1 ס֥וּרָ/ה שְׁבָ/ה Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. He turned aside, and sat down.
- Ruth 4:2 שְׁבוּ He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit you down here. They sat down.
- Ruth 4:4 הַגִּ֣ידָ/ה קְ֠נֵה גְּאָ֔ל I thought to disclose it to you, saying, Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it: but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; for there is none to redeem it besides you; and I am after you. He said, I will redeem it.
- Ruth 4:6 גְּאַל The near kinsman said, I can't redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance: take my right of redemption on you; for I can't redeem it.
- Ruth 4:8 קְנֵה So the near kinsman said to Boaz, Buy it for yourself. He drew off his shoe.
- Ruth 4:11 וַ/עֲשֵׂה וּ/קְרָא All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel: and do you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
- 1 Samuel
- 1 Samuel 1:14 הָסִ֥ירִי Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? put away your wine from you.
- 1 Samuel 1:17 לְכִ֣י Then Eli answered, Go in peace; and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.
- 1 Samuel 1:23 עֲשִׂ֧י שְׁבִי֙ Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems you good; wait until you have weaned him; only Yahweh establish his word. So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.
- 1 Samuel 2:15 תְּנָ֣/ה Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have boiled flesh of you, but raw.
- 1 Samuel 2:16 וְ/קַ֨ח If the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as your soul desires; then he would say, No, but you shall give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
- 1 Samuel 2:36 סְפָחֵ֥/נִי It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.
- 1 Samuel 3:5 שׁ֣וּב שְׁכָ֑ב He ran to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. He said, I didn't call; lie down again. He went and lay down.
- 1 Samuel 3:6 שׁ֥וּב שְׁכָֽב Yahweh called yet again, Samuel. Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. He answered, I didn't call, my son; lie down again.
- 1 Samuel 3:9 דַּבֵּ֣ר לֵ֣ךְ שְׁכָב֒ Therefore Eli said to Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call you, that you shall say, Speak, Yahweh; for your servant hears. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
- 1 Samuel 3:10 דַּבֵּ֔ר Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel said, Speak; for your servant hears.
- 1 Samuel 4:9 וִֽ/הְי֤וּ הִֽתְחַזְּק֞וּ Be strong, and behave yourselves like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
- 1 Samuel 5:11 שַׁלְּח֞וּ They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people. For there was a deadly confusion throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
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