Topic
Forget; Forgetful
30 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 27:45ISBE
Until thy brother’s anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?
- Deuteronomy 4:9ISBE
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
- Deuteronomy 4:11ISBE
And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
- Deuteronomy 4:23ISBE
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
- Deuteronomy 6:12ISBE
Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
- Deuteronomy 24:19ISBE
¶ When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of…
- Judges 3:7ISBE
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
- 1 Samuel 12:9ISBE
And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
- Job 9:27ISBE
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
- Job 11:16ISBE
Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
- Job 24:20ISBE
The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
- Psalms 9:12ISBE
When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.
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- Psalms 10:11 ISBE
- Psalms 10:12 ISBE
- Psalms 13:1 ISBE
- Psalms 42:9 ISBE
- Psalms 44:20 ISBE
- Psalms 45:10 ISBE
- Psalms 74:19 ISBE
- Psalms 77:9 ISBE
- Psalms 88:12 ISBE
- Psalms 102:4 ISBE
- Isaiah 49:15 ISBE
- Matthew 16:5 ISBE
- Mark 8:14 ISBE
- Luke 12:6 ISBE
- Philippians 3:13 ISBE
- James 1:25 ISBE
- 2 Peter 3:5 ISBE
- 2 Peter 3:8 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 30 references
for-get', for-get'-ful (shakhach; epilanthanomai):
"Forget" is to fail to hold in mind, and the forgetfulness may be either innocent or blameworthy. In the Old Testament the word is most frequently used as translation of shakhach in a blameworthy sense: to forget the covenant, the law, Yahweh their God (De 4:9,23,11; 6:12; Jud 3:7; 1Sa 12:9; Ps 44:20, etc.). In an innocent or neutral, sometimes good, sense it is used in Ge 27:45; De 24:19; Job 9:27; 11:16; 24:20; Ps 102:4, etc. It is also used of God forgetting or not seeming to care (Ps 9:12; 10:11,12; 13:1; 42:9; 77:9; Isa 49:15, etc.). To "forget" sometimes means to forsake (Ps 45:10; 74:19, etc.).
In the New Testament epilanthanomai is used of simple forgetting (Mt 16:5; Mr 8:14, etc.; in Lu 12:6 the sense of care is implied); Php 3:13, "forgetting the things which are behind," has the force of leaving behind. "Forgetful" in Jas 1:25 is epilesmone, the Revised Version (British and American) "a hearer that forgetteth." "Forgetfulness" Ps 88:12, "the land of forgetfulness," is a synonym for Sheol, where all forget and are forgotten. the Revised Version (British and American) has "forget not" for "be ignorant of" (2Pe 3:8; similarly 2Pe 3:5).
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.