Topic
Traveller
5 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.
- Judges 5:6ISBE
In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
- 2 Samuel 12:4ISBE
And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
- Job 31:32ISBE
The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 26:12ISBE
She will open her mouth, as a thirsty traveller when he hath found a fountain, and drink of every water near her: by every hedge will she sit down, and open her quiver against every arrow.
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 42:3ISBE
Of reckoning with thy partners and travellers; or of the gift of the heritage of friends;
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 5 references
trav'-el-er: Jud 5:6 for halakh nethibhah, "goers on paths"; 2Sa 12:4 for helekh, literally, "a going"; Job 31:32 for 'arach, participle of a verb meaning "to wander"; Sirach 26:12; 42:3 for hodoiporos, "one making a way."
See WAYFARING MAN.
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.