Topic
Attain
15 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 47:9ISBE
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their…
- 2 Samuel 23:19ISBE
Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.
- 2 Samuel 23:23ISBE
He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.
- 1 Chronicles 11:21ISBE
Of the three, he was more honourable than the two; for he was their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.
- 1 Chronicles 11:25ISBE
Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.
- Proverbs 1:5ISBE
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
- Ezekiel 46:7ISBE
And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
- Hosea 8:5ISBE
¶ Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?
- Acts 27:12ISBE
And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.
- Romans 9:30ISBE
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
- Romans 9:31ISBE
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
- Philippians 3:11ISBE
If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
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- Philippians 3:12 ISBE
- Philippians 3:16 ISBE
- 1 Timothy 4:6 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 15 references
a-tan': The rendering of qanah = "buy," "get" (Pr 1:5); nasagh= "reach," "a meal-offering .... according as he is able" (Eze 46:7 margin), "not attained unto the days" (Ge 47:9); yakhol or yakhowl ="be able," "overcome," "attain to innocency" (Ho 8:5); bo' = "come," "follow" (2Sa 23:19,23; 1Ch 11:21,25); katantao="arrive at" (Ac 27:12 the King James Version; Php 3:11); katalambano ="take eagerly," "seize," "apprehend," "attained to righteousness" (Ro 9:30); phthano ="have arrived at" (Ro 9:31 the King James Version; Php 3:16); lambano -"take," "get a hold of," "catch," the Revised Version (British and American) "already obtained" (Php 3:12); parakoloutheo = "follow," "trace out," "conform to" (1Ti 4:6). Here the Revised Version (British and American) corrects the King James Version.
Frank E. Hirsch
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.