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English word, or a Strong's number like G25, H7225.
H4268 מַחֲסֶה hebrew
pronunciation: machăçeh  ·  makh-as-eh'
definition: hope, (place of) refuge, shelter, trust.
a shelter (literally or figuratively)

Occurrences · 20 verses · page 1 of 1

  • Job 24:8

    They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

  • Psalms 14:6

    Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

  • Psalms 46:1

    God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

  • Psalms 61:3

    For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.

  • Psalms 62:7

    In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

  • Psalms 62:8

    Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.

  • Psalms 71:7

    I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.

  • Psalms 73:28

    But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

  • Psalms 91:2

    I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

  • Psalms 91:9

    Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

  • Psalms 94:22

    But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.

  • Psalms 104:18

    The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.

  • Psalms 142:5

    I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.

  • Proverbs 14:26

    In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

  • Isaiah 4:6

    And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.

  • Isaiah 25:4

    For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

  • Isaiah 28:15

    Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

  • Isaiah 28:17

    Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

  • Jeremiah 17:17

    Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.

  • Joel 3:16

    The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

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