Topic
Attend; Attendance
6 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.
- Esther 4:5ISBE
Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king’s chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.
- Psalms 17:1ISBE
Hear the right, O LORD, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
- Romans 13:6ISBE
For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God’s ministers, attending continually upon this very thing.
- 1 Corinthians 7:35ISBE
And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.
- 1 Timothy 4:13ISBE
Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
- Hebrews 7:13ISBE
For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 6 references
a-tend'; a-tend'-ans:
(1) "To incline," "listen," "regard" qashabh; (Ps 17:1 etc.); then, in the King James Version, "observe," but in the Revised Version (British and American), more frequently, "give heed" prosechein noun, as in 1Ti 4:13.
(2) "To be with," "take care of," "wait upon" (Es 4:5; Heb 7:13; Ro 13:6); literally, "give unremitting care to," as in 1Co 7:35 (Luther: "serve the Lord constantly and without hindrance").
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.