Topic
Exercise
22 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.
- Psalms 131:1ISBE
LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
- Ecclesiastes 1:13ISBE
And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
- Ecclesiastes 3:10ISBE
I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
- Jeremiah 9:24ISBE
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
- Ezekiel 22:29ISBE
The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
- Tobit 12:9ISBE
For alms doth deliver from death, and shall purge away all sin. Those that exercise alms and righteousness shall be filled with life:
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 50:28ISBE
Blessed is he that shall be exercised in these things; and he that layeth them up in his heart shall become wise.
- 1 Maccabees 6:30ISBE
So that the number of his army was an hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and two and thirty elephants exercised in battle.
- 2 Maccabees 4:9ISBE
Beside this, he promised to assign an hundred and fifty more, if he might have licence to set him up a place for exercise, and for the training up of youth in the fashions of the heathen, and to write them of Jerusalem by the name of Antiochians.
- 2 Maccabees 15:12ISBE
And this was his vision: That Onias, who had been high priest, a virtuous and a good man, reverend in conversation, gentle in condition, well spoken also, and exercised from a child in all points of virtue, holding up his hands prayed for the whole body of…
- 2 Esdras 15:8ISBE
I will hold my tongue no more as touching their wickedness, which they profanely commit, neither will I suffer them in those things, in which they wickedly exercise themselves: behold, the innocent and righteous blood crieth unto me, and the souls of the…
- Matthew 20:25ISBE
But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.
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- Mark 10:42 ISBE
- Luke 22:25 ISBE
- Acts 24:16 ISBE
- 1 Timothy 4:7 ISBE
- 1 Timothy 4:8 ISBE
- Hebrews 5:14 ISBE
- Hebrews 12:11 ISBE
- 1 Peter 5:2 ISBE
- 2 Peter 2:14 ISBE
- Revelation 13:12 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 22 references
ek'-ser-siz (`asah; gumnazo, poieo) :
"Exercise" (meaning originally, "to drive or thrust out") has different shades of meaning: It means
(1) "to do," "to put into action" (Jer 9:24, `asah, "to do," "Yahweh who exerciseth lovingkindness"; Re 13:12, poieo, "to do," "He exerciseth all the authority of the first"; /APC Tobit 12:9, the Revised Version (British and American) "do");
(2) with violence implied, gazal, "to take away violently," "have exercised robbery" (Eze 22:29); "to act habitually" (Ps 131:1, halakh, "to walk," "Neither do I exercise myself in great matters" the Revised Version, margin "walk"; Ac 24:16, askeo, "to work up"; compare /APC 2Esdras 15:8; Ecclesiasticus 50:28);
(3) "to train" or "discipline," gumnazo, "to use exercise," "to train up" (1Ti 4:7, "Exercise thyself unto godliness"; Heb 5:14; 12:11; 2Pe 2:14; compare /APC 1Macc 6:30; 2Macc 15:12);
(4) "to afflict" (Ec 1:13; 3:10, `anah, "to be afflicted," "exercised therewith," "exercised in it"); in Mt 20:25; Mr 10:42, katakurieuo, "to lord it over," and katexousiazo, "to exercise authority," are translated respectively "exercise dominion" and "exercise authority," the English Revised Version "lord it over" and "exercise authority"; in Lu 22:25, the Greek words are kurieuo, "to be lord over" and exousiazo, "to have power or authority over," the Revised Version (British and American) "have lordship," "have authority." In 1Ti 4:8 the noun, gumnasia, meaning gymnastic exercise, occurs (somatike gumnasia), translated "bodily exercise," contrasted with "exercise unto godliness," the Revised Version (British and American) "For bodily exercise is profitable for a little (m "for little"); but godliness is profitable for all things," a saying to which the youth of all times would do well to give heed. In 2 Macc 4:9, Jason is said to have set up "a place of exercise" (gumnasion) in Jerusalem. In 1Pe 5:2 the Revised Version (British and American), "exercising the oversight" is substituted for "taking the oversight."
W. L. Walker
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.