Haller's Concordance: WHEREAS
- And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes. Gen. 18:27
- But, whereas, thou chargest me with theft: with whomsoever thou shalt find thy gods, let him be slain before our brethren. Search, and if thou find any of thy things with me, take them away. Now when he said this, he knew not that Rachel had stolen the idols. Gen. 31:32
- And his soul was fast knit unto her; and whereas she was sad, he comforted her with sweet words. Gen. 34:3
- Therefore, if I shall go to thy servant, our father, and the boy be wanting, (whereas his life dependeth upon the life of him,) Gen. 44:30
- And Moses said to the Lord: Thou commandest me to lead forth this people; and thou dost not let me know whom thou wilt send with me, especially whereas thou hast said: I know thee by name, and thou hast found favour in my sight. Ex. 33:12
- Especially, whereas none of the blood thereof hath been carried within the holy places: and you ought to have eaten it in the sanctuary, as was commanded me? Lev. 10:18
- Say not in thy heart, when the Lord thy God shall have destroyed them in thy sight: For my justice hath the Lord brought me in to possess this land, whereas these nations are destroyed for their wickedness. Dt. 9:4
- Josue called the Gabaonites, and said to them: Why would you impose upon us, saying: We dwell very far off from you, whereas you are in the midst of us? Josu. 9:22
- And the children of Joseph spoke to Josue, and said: Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to possess, whereas I am of so great a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed me? Josu. 17:14
- Whereas he hath dwelt in Hesebon, and the villages thereof, and in Aroer, and its villages, and in all the cities near the Jordan, for three hundred years. Why have you for so long a time attempted nothing about this claim? Judg. 11:26
- But seeing that Naas, king of the children of Ammon, was come against you, you said to me: Nay, but a king shall reign over us: whereas the Lord your God was your king. 1 Ki. 12:12
- Whereas I have not dwelt in a house from the day that I brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt even to this day: but have walked in a tabernacle, and in a tent. 2 Ki. 7:6
- And whereas the staves stood out, the ends of them were seen without, in the sanctuary before the oracle, but were not seen farther out, and there they have been unto this day. 3 Ki. 8:8
- And the Lord said to David, my father: Whereas, thou hast thought in thy heart to build a house to my name, thou hast done well in having this same thing in thy mind. 3 Ki. 8:18
- And David went out to meet them, and said: If you are come peaceably to me to help me, let my heart be joined to you: but if you plot against me for my enemies whereas I have no iniquity in my hands, let the God of our fathers see, and judge. 1 Par. 12:17
- And whereas David my father had a mind to build a house to the name of the Lord the God of Israel, 2 Par. 6:7
- And whereas there came a very small number of the Syrians, the Lord delivered into their hands an infinite multitude, because they had forsaken the Lord the God of their fathers: and on Joas they executed shameful judgments. 2 Par. 24:24
- Sacrificed victims to the gods of Damascus that struck him, and he said: The gods of the kings of Syria help them, and I will appease them with victims, and they will help me; whereas on the contrary they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel. 2 Par. 28:23
- For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept his commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of blindness had befallen him, Tob. 2:13
- Now I am afraid, lest the same thing should happen to me also: and whereas I am the only child of my parents, I should bring down their old age with sorrow to hell. Tob. 6:15
- Whereas I reigned over many nations, and had brought all the world under my dominion, I was not willing to abuse the greatness of my power, but to govern my subjects with clemency and lenity that they might live quietly without any terror, and might enjoy peace, which is desired by all men, Esther 13:2
- And whereas I have all these things, I think I have nothing, so long as I see Mardochai the Jew sitting before the king's gate. Esther 5:13
- Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me? Job 6:25
- And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand? Job 10:7
- The tabernacles of robbers abound, and they provoke God boldly; whereas it is he that hath given all into their hands: Job 12:6
- How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth? Job 21:34
- Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me. Job 22:18
- God doth not cast away the mighty, whereas he himself also is mighty. Job 36:5
- What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun? Eccl. 6:12
- Yea, and the fool when he walketh in the way, whereas he himself is a fool, esteemeth all men fools. Eccl. 10:3
- And whereas Ecclesiastes was very wise, he taught the people, and declared the things that he had done: and seeking out, he set forth many parables. Eccl. 12:9
- And whereas I was more good, I came to a body undefiled. Wis. 8:20
- Therefore whereas thou chastisest us, thou scourgest our enemies very many ways, to the end that when we judge we may think on thy goodness: and when we are judged, we may hope for thy mercy. Wis. 12:22
- And it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but whereas they lived in a great war of ignorance, they call so many and so great evils peace. Wis. 14:22
- For whereas wickedness is fearful, it beareth witness of its condemnation: for a troubled conscience always forecasteth grievous things. Wis. 17:10
- And whereas they thought to kill the babes of the just: one child being cast forth, and saved to reprove them, thou tookest away a multitude of their children, and destroyedst them altogether in a mighty water. Wis. 18:5
- For whereas they would not believe any thing before by reason of the enchantments, then first upon the destruction of the firstborn, they acknowledged the people to be of God. Wis. 18:13
- What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it? I will recount to thee all my years in the bitterness of my soul. Isa. 38:15
- For they have served them, whereas they were many nations, and great kings: and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their hands. Jer. 25:14
- And sayest thou to me, O Lord God: Buy a field for money, and take witnesses, whereas the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans? Jer. 32:25
- Men buy them at a high price, whereas there is no breath in them. Bar. 6:24
- They see vain things, and they foretell lies, saying: The Lord saith: whereas the Lord hath not sent them: and they have persisted to confirm what they have said. Ezec. 13:6
- Have you not seen a vain vision and spoken a lying divination: and you say: The Lord saith: whereas I have not spoken. Ezec. 13:7
- Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am God, and I sit in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas thou art a man, and not God: and hast set thy heart as if it were the heart of God. Ezec. 28:2
- Wilt thou yet say before them that slay thee: I am God; whereas thou art a man, and not God, in the hand of them that slay thee? Ezec. 28:9
- And the children of thy people have said: The way of the Lord is not equitable: whereas their own way is unjust. Ezec. 33:17
- Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will deliver thee up to blood, and blood shall pursue thee: and whereas thou hast hated blood, blood shall pursue thee. Ezec. 35:6
- Because thou hast said: The two nations, and the two lands shall be mine, and I will possess them by inheritance: whereas the Lord was there. Ezec. 35:10
- And whereas thou sawest the feet, and the toes, part of potter's clay, and part of iron: the kingdom shall be divided, but yet it shall take its origin from the iron, according as thou sawest the iron mixed with the miry clay. Dan. 2:41
- And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall be mingled indeed together with the seed of man, but they shall not stick fast one to another, as iron cannot be mixed with clay. Dan. 2:43
- Thou knowest that they have borne false witness against me: and behold I must die, whereas I have done none of these things, which these men have maliciously forged against me. Dan. 13:43
- In judging unjust judgments, oppressing the innocent, and letting the guilty to go free, whereas the Lord saith: The innocent and the just thou shalt not kill. Dan. 13:53
- And whereas the king saw a watcher, and a holy one come down from heaven, and say: Cut down the tree, and destroy it, but leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, and let it be bound with iron and brass, among the grass without, and let it be sprinkled with the dew of heaven, and let his feeding be with the wild beasts, till seven times pass over him. Dan. 4:23
- But whereas he commanded, that the stump of the roots thereof, that is, of the tree, should be left: thy kingdom shall remain to thee, after thou shalt have known that power is from heaven. Dan. 4:26
- Thou also, his son, O Baltasar, hast not humbled thy heart, whereas thou knewest all these things: Dan. 5:22
- But whereas when that was broken, there arose up four for it, four kings shall rise up of his nation, but not with his strength. Dan. 8:22
- In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land? Mic. 2:4
- Whereas you have kept covenant with us, and have continued in our friendship, and have not joined with our enemies, we have heard of it, and are glad. 1 Ma. 10:26
- And he said to Jonathan: Why hast thou troubled all the people, whereas we have no war? 1 Ma. 12:44
- Therefore, whereas we purpose to keep the purification of the temple on the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu, we thought it necessary to signify it to you: that you also may keep the day of Scenopegia, and the day of the fire, that was given when Nehemias offered sacrifice, after the temple and the altar was built. 2 Ma. 1:18
- And whereas he was set against the Jews, he sent that hateful prince, Apollonius, with an army of two and twenty thousand men, commanding him to kill all that were of perfect age, and to sell the women and the younger sort. 2 Ma. 5:24
- But when he was now ready to die with the stripes, he groaned: and said: O Lord, who hast the holy knowledge, thou knowest manifestly that whereas I might be delivered from death, I suffer grievous pains in body: but in soul am well content to suffer these things, because I fear thee. 2 Ma. 6:30
- Said: Whereas thou hast power among men though thou art corruptible, thou dost what thou wilt but think not that our nation is forsaken by God. 2 Ma. 7:16
- And whereas some were fled into very strong towers, having all manner of provision to sustain a siege, 2 Ma. 10:18
- But whereas through haste he missed of giving himself a sure wound, and the crowd was breaking into the doors, he ran boldly to the wall, and manfully threw himself down to the crowd: 2 Ma. 14:43
- O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Mt. 12:34
- And they found not, whereas many false witnesses had come in. And last of all there came two false witnesses: Mt. 26:60
- And whereas they had not wherewith to pay, he forgave them both. Which therefore of the two loveth him most? Lk. 7:42
- Now he meant Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon: for this same was about to betray him, whereas he was one of the twelve. Jn. 6:71
- He said therefore to them: If he be a sinner, I know not. One thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see. Jn. 9:25
- And whereas he had done so many miracles before them, they believed not in him: Jn. 12:37
- Whereas therefore he was a prophet and knew that God hath sworn to him with an oath, that of the fruit of his loins one should sit upon his throne. Acts 2:30
- And whereas he was desirous to go to Achaia, the brethren exhorting wrote to the disciples to receive him. Who, when he was come, helped them much who had believed. Acts 18:27
- And whereas I did not see for the brightness of that light, being led by the hand by my companions, I came to Damascus, Acts 22:11
- And Paul being called for, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying: Whereas, through thee we live in much peace and many things are rectified by thy providence, Acts 24:2
- And whereas it was not a commodious haven to winter in, the greatest part gave counsel to sail thence, if by any means they might reach Phenice, to winter there, which is a haven of Crete, looking towards the southwest and northwest. Acts 27:12
- And he was not weak in faith. Neither did he consider his own body, now dead (whereas he was almost an hundred years old), nor the dead womb of Sara. Rom. 4:19
- For, whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you not carnal and walk you not according to man? 1 Cor. 3:3
- For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all, that I might gain the more. 1 Cor. 9:19
- And I became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews: To them that are under the law, as if I were under the law, (whereas myself was not under the law,) that I might gain them that were under the law. 1 Cor. 9:20
- To them that were without the law, as if I were without the law, (whereas I was not without the law of God, but was in the law of Christ,) that I might gain them that were without the law. 1 Cor. 9:21
- For as the body is one and hath many members; and all the members of the body, whereas they are many, yet are one body: So also is Christ. 1 Cor. 12:12
- For he hath put all things under his feet. And whereas he saith: All things are put under him; undoubtedly, he is excepted, who put all things under him. 1 Cor. 15:27
- Whereas then I was thus minded, did I use lightness? Or, the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that there should be with me, It is, and It is not? 2 Cor. 1:17
- For you gladly suffer the foolish: whereas yourselves are wise. 2 Cor. 11:19
- Are you so foolish that, whereas you began in the Spirit, you would now be made perfect by the flesh? Gal. 3:3
- For if any man think himself to be some thing, whereas he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. Gal. 6:3
- And you, whereas you were some time alienated and enemies in mind in evil works: Yet now he hath reconciled Col. 1:21
- Nor sought we glory of men, neither of you, nor of others. Whereas we might have been burdensome to you, as the apostles of Christ: 1 Th. 2:6
- For charity sake I rather beseech, whereas thou art such a one, as Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also of Jesus Christ. Ph'm 1:9
- And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things which he suffered. Heb. 5:8
- For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat. Heb. 5:12
- Behold also ships, whereas they are great and are driven by strong winds, yet are they turned about with a small helm, whithersoever the force of the governor willeth. Jas. 3:4
- Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is a vapour which appeareth for a little while and afterwards shall vanish away. Jas. 4:14
- Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation. 1 Pet. 2:12
- But with modesty and fear, having a good conscience: that whereas they speak evil of you, they may be ashamed who falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. 1 Pet. 3:16
- Whereas angels, who are greater in strength and power, bring not against themselves a railing judgment. 2 Pet. 2:11
- Promising them liberty, whereas they themselves are the slaves of corruption. For by whom a man is overcome, of the same also he is the slave. 2 Pet. 2:19
- For whereas thou hast said that the just are not many, but few, and the ungodly abound, hear the answer thereunto. 4 Esd. 7:51
- And whereas she told thee, that she was barren thirtie yeares: for the which there were thirtie yeares, when there was not yet oblation offered in it. 4 Esd. 10:45
- And whereas he is a iust iudge, he hath taken from you in time that which he had geuen. 4 Esd. 14:32