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Forsaken

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Hebrew H488 ʼalmân

Original: אַלְמָן

Meaning:
prolonged from אָלַם in the sense of bereavement; discarded (as a divorced person); forsaken.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: forsaken.

Verses containing this word showing 20 of 74

^{Deuteronomy 28:20} The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. Open

^{Deuteronomy 29:25} Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: Open

^{Judges 6:13} And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. Open

^{Judges 10:10} And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim. Open

^{Judges 10:13} Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more. Open

^{1 Samuel 8:8} According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee. Open

^{1 Samuel 12:10} And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee. Open

^{1 Kings 11:33} Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father. Open

^{1 Kings 18:18} And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim. Open

^{1 Kings 19:10} And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. Open

^{1 Kings 19:14} And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away. Open

^{2 Kings 22:17} Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched. Open

^{2 Chronicles 12:5} Then came Shemaiah the prophet to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Ye have forsaken me, and therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak. Open

^{2 Chronicles 13:10} But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business: Open

^{2 Chronicles 13:11} And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him. Open

^{2 Chronicles 21:10} So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers. Open

^{2 Chronicles 24:20} And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you. Open

^{2 Chronicles 24:24} For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash. Open

^{2 Chronicles 28:6} For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. Open

^{2 Chronicles 29:6} For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their backs. Open

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^{2 Chronicles 34:25} Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched. Open

^{Ezra 9:9} For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. Open

^{Ezra 9:10} And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments, Open

^{Nehemiah 13:11} Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place. Open

^{Job 18:4} He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place? Open

^{Job 20:19} Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; Open

^{Psalm 9:10} And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. Open

^{Psalm 22:1} My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? Open

^{Psalm 37:25} I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. Open

^{Psalm 71:11} Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him. Open

^{Isaiah 1:4} Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Open

^{Isaiah 2:6} Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers. Open

^{Isaiah 7:16} For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings. Open

^{Isaiah 17:2} The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. Open

^{Isaiah 17:9} In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation. Open

^{Isaiah 27:10} Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof. Open

^{Isaiah 32:14} Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks; Open

^{Isaiah 49:14} But Zion said, The LORD hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Open

^{Isaiah 54:6} For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. Open

^{Isaiah 54:7} For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. Open

^{Isaiah 60:15} Whereas thou has been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. Open

^{Isaiah 62:4} Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. Open

^{Isaiah 62:12} And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken. Open

^{Jeremiah 1:16} And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands. Open

^{Jeremiah 2:13} For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water. Open

^{Jeremiah 2:17} Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way? Open

^{Jeremiah 2:19} Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts. Open

^{Jeremiah 4:29} The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein. Open

^{Jeremiah 5:7} How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. Open

^{Jeremiah 5:19} And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not your's. Open

^{Jeremiah 7:29} Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. Open

^{Jeremiah 9:13} And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; Open

^{Jeremiah 9:19} For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. Open

^{Jeremiah 12:7} I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies. Open

^{Jeremiah 15:6} Thou hast forsaken me, saith the LORD, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting. Open

^{Jeremiah 16:11} Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law; Open

^{Jeremiah 17:13} O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters. Open

^{Jeremiah 18:14} Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken? Open

^{Jeremiah 19:4} Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents; Open

^{Jeremiah 22:9} Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them. Open

^{Jeremiah 25:38} He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger. Open

^{Jeremiah 51:5} For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel. Open

^{Ezekiel 8:12} Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, the LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth. Open

^{Ezekiel 9:9} Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not. Open

^{Ezekiel 36:4} Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about; Open

^{Amos 5:2} The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up. Open

^{Zephaniah 2:4} For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. Open

^{Matthew 19:27} Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore? Open

^{Matthew 19:29} And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. Open

^{Matthew 27:46} And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Open

^{Mark 15:34} And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Open

^{2 Corinthians 4:9} Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Open

^{2 Timothy 4:10} For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. Open

^{2 Peter 2:15} Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; Open

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