Topic
Nurse
12 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 24:59Smith · Nave General scriptures concerning
And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.
- Ruth 4:16Smith · Nave General scriptures concerning
And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.
- 2 Samuel 4:4Smith · Nave Careless
And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became…
- 2 Kings 11:2Smith · Nave General scriptures concerning
But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
- Genesis 8:1–22Smith
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from…
- Genesis 35:8Nave General scriptures concerning
But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.
- Genesis 36:1–43Smith
Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom. Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite; And Bashemath Ishmael’s daughter, sister of…
- Exodus 2:7Nave General scriptures concerning
Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
- Numbers 11:12Smith
Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
- Isaiah 49:23Smith
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait…
- Isaiah 60:4Nave General scriptures concerning
Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:7Nave General scriptures concerning
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 8 references
In the topical indexes
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.