Topic
Folk
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.
- Genesis 33:15ISBE
And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
- Proverbs 30:26ISBE
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
- Jeremiah 51:58ISBE
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
- Mark 6:5ISBE
And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
- John 5:3ISBE
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
- Acts 5:16ISBE
There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 6 references
fok:
The translation of `am, `am "a people or nation" (Ge 33:15, "some of the folk that are with me"; Pr 30:26, "The conies are but a feeble folk"); of le'om, with the same meaning (Jer 51:58, "the folk in the fire," the Revised Version (British and American) "the nations for the fire"); "sick folk" is the translation of arrhostos, "not strong" (Mr 6:5); of ton asthenounton, participle of astheneo, "to be without strength," "weak," "sick" (Joh 5:3, the Revised Version (British and American) "them that were sick"); "sick folks," of astheneis plural of asthenes, "without strength," the Revised Version (British and American) "sick folk" (Ac 5:16).
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.