Haller's Concordance: FEW
- And thou shalt dwell with him a few days, till the wrath of thy brother be assuaged, Gen. 27:44
- So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love. Gen. 29:20
- And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land. We are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house shall be destroyed. Gen. 34:30
- He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers. Gen. 47:9
- If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the number of the years: and shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of the years. Lev. 25:52
- And I will send in upon you the beasts of the field, to destroy you and your cattle, and make you few in number: and that your highways may be desolate. Lev. 26:22
- View the land, of what sort it is, and the people that are the inhabitants thereof, whether they be strong or weak: few in number or many: Num. 13:18
- And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few among the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you. Dt. 4:27
- And you shall remain few in number, who before were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God. Dt. 28:62
- And returning, they said to him: Let not all the people go up, but let two or three thousand men go, and destroy the city: why should all the people be troubled in vain, against enemies that are very few? Josu. 7:3
- And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armour: Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised, it may be the Lord will do for us: because it is easy for the Lord to save either by many, or by few. 1 Ki. 14:6
- Now when Eliab his eldest brother heard this, when he was speaking with others, he was angry with David, and said: Why camest thou hither? and why didst thou leave those few sheep in the desert? I know thy pride, and the wickedness of thy heart: that thou art come down to see the battle. 1 Ki. 17:28
- And after a few days David rose up, and went with the men that were under him, and he slew of the Philistines two hundred men, and brought their foreskins and numbered them out to the king, that he might be his son in law. Saul therefore gave him Michol, his daughter, to wife. 1 Ki. 18:27
- And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels, not a few. 4 Ki. 4:3
- When they were but a small number: very few and sojourners in it. 1 Par. 16:19
- And he called upon the Lord God, and said: Lord, there is no difference with thee, whether thou help with few, or with many: help us, O Lord our God: for with confidence in thee, and in thy name we are come against this multitude. O Lord thou art our God, let not man prevail against thee. 2 Par. 14:11
- But the priests were few, and were not enough to flay the holocausts: wherefore the Levites their brethren helped them, till the work was ended, and priests were sanctified, for the Levites are sanctified with an easier rite than the priests. 2 Par. 29:34
- And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me, and I told not any man what God had put in my heart to do in Jerusalem, and there was no beast with me, but the beast that I rode upon. 2 Esd. 2:12
- And the city was very wide and great, and the people few in the midst thereof, and the houses were not built. 2 Esd. 7:4
- From the enemies of thy hand. O Lord, divide them from the few of the earth in their life: their belly is filled from thy hidden stores. They are full of children: and they have left to their little ones the rest of their substance. Ps. 17:14
- When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein: Ps. 105:12
- Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow. Ps. 107:39
- May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take. Ps. 109:8
- Speak not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few. Eccl. 5:2
- A little city, and few men in it: there came against it a great king, and invested it, and built bulwarks round about it, and the siege was perfect. Eccl. 9:14
- Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded: because God hath tried them, and found them worthy of himself. Wis. 3:5
- Give them their portion, as it is commanded thee, of the firstfruits and of purifications: and for thy negligences purify thyself with a few. Sir. 7:34
- The number of the days of men at the most are a hundred years, as a drop of water of the sea are they esteemed: and as a pebble of the sand, so are a few years compared to eternity. Sir. 18:8
- He will give a few things, and upbraid much: and the opening of his mouth is the kindling of a fire. Sir. 20:15
- There are many things hidden from us that are greater than these: for we have seen but a few of his works. Sir. 43:36
- But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few. Isa. 10:7
- And they that remain of the trees of his forest shall be so few, that they shall easily be numbered, and a child shall write them down. Isa. 10:19
- Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore they that dwell therein shall be mad, and few men shall be left. Isa. 24:6
- For it shall be thus in the midst of the earth, in the midst of the people, as if a few olives, that remain, should be shaken out of the olive tree: or grapes, when the vintage is ended. Isa. 24:13
- Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters: and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and be not few in number. Jer. 29:6
- And out of them shall come forth praise, and the voice of them that play: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be made few: and I will glorify them, and they shall not be lessened. Jer. 30:19
- And they said to Jeremias the prophet: Let our supplication fall before thee: and pray thou for us to the Lord thy God for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as thy eyes do behold us. Jer. 42:2
- And a few men that shall flee from the sword, shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Juda: and all the remnant of Juda that are gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs. Jer. 44:28
- Let thy wrath be turned away from us: for we are left a few among the nations where thou hast scattered us. Bar. 2:13
- And I will leave a few men of them from the sword, and from the famine, and from the pestilence: that they may declare all their wicked deeds among the nations whither they shall go: and they shall know that I am the Lord. Ezec. 12:16
- ¤ In the first year of Baltasar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream: and the vision of his head was upon his bed: and writing the dream, he comprehended it in a few words: and relating the sum of it in short, he said: Dan. 7:1
- And there shall stand up in his place one most vile, and unworthy of kingly honour: and in a few days he shall be destroyed, not in rage nor in battle. Dan. 11:20
- But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to Judas: How shall we, being few, be able to fight against so great a multitude, and so strong, and we are ready to faint with fasting today? 1 Ma. 3:17
- And Judas said: It is an easy matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few: and there is no difference in the sight of the God of heaven to deliver with a great multitude, or with a small company: 1 Ma. 3:18
- And there remained in the holy places but a few, for the famine had prevailed over them: and they were dispersed every man to his own place. 1 Ma. 6:54
- ¤ In the hundred and fifty-first year, Demetrius, the son of Seleucus, departed from the city of Rome, and came up with a few men into a city of the sea coast, and reigned there. 1 Ma. 7:1
- Saying: Let there be no fighting between me and you: I will come with a few men, to see your faces with peace. 1 Ma. 7:28
- But they dissuaded him, saying: We shall not be able, but let us save our lives now, and return to our brethren, and then we will fight against them: for we are but few. 1 Ma. 9:9
- Now, therefore, send them back to their own houses: and choose thee a few men that may be with thee, and come with me to Ptolemais, and I will deliver it to thee, and the rest of the strong holds, and the army, and all that have any charge, and I will return and go away: for this is the cause of my coming. 1 Ma. 12:45
- In the year one hundred and seventy-four, Antiochus entered into the land of his fathers, and all the forces assembled to him, so that few were left with Tryphon. 1 Ma. 15:10
- And the manifestations that came from heaven to them, that behaved themselves manfully on the behalf of the Jews, so that, being but a few they made themselves masters of the whole country, and put to flight the barbarous multitude: 2 Ma. 2:22
- But let this suffice in a few words for a warning to the readers. And now we must come to the narration. 2 Ma. 6:17
- And when they had joined battle, it happened that a few of the Jews were slain. 2 Ma. 12:34
- But when Machabeus perceived that Nicanor was more stern to him, and that when they met together as usual he behaved himself in a rough manner; and was sensible that this rough behaviour came not of good, he gathered together a few of his men, and hid himself from Nicanor. 2 Ma. 14:30
- How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it! Mt. 7:14
- Then he saith to his disciples, The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few. Mt. 9:37
- And Jesus said to them: How many loaves have you? But they said: Seven, and a few little fishes. Mt. 15:34
- So shall the last be first and the first last. For many are called but few chosen. Mt. 20:16
- For many are called, but few are chosen. Mt. 22:14
- His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant, because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord. Mt. 25:21
- His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant: because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy lord. Mt. 25:23
- And he could not do any miracles there, only that he cured a few that were sick, laying his hands upon them. Mk. 6:5
- And they had a few little fishes: and he blessed them and commanded them to be set before them. Mk. 8:7
- And he said to them: The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he send labourers into his harvest. Lk. 10:2
- But he that knew not and did things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with few stripes. And unto whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they will demand the more. Lk. 12:48
- And a certain man said to him: Lord, are they few that are saved? But he said to them: Lk. 13:23
- And some of them believed and were associated to Paul and Silas: and of those that served God and of the Gentiles a great multitude: and of noble women not a few. Acts 17:4
- And many indeed of them believed: and of honourable women that were Gentiles and of men, not a few. Acts 17:12
- But that I be no further tedious to thee, I desire thee of thy clemency to hear us in a few words. Acts 24:4
- How that, according to revelation, the mystery has been made known to me, as I have written above in a few words: Eph. 3:3
- And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification. Heb. 12:10
- And I beseech you, brethren, that you suffer this word of consolation. For I have written to you in a few words. Heb. 13:22
- Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. 1 Pet. 3:20
- But I have against thee a few things: because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat and to commit fornication. Apoc. 2:14
- But I have against thee a few things: because thou sufferest the woman Jezabel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants, to commit fornication and to eat of things sacrificed to idols. Apoc. 2:20
- But thou hast a few names in Sardis which have not defiled their garments: and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy. Apoc. 3:4
- Goe & you shal receiue. Aske for your selues a few dayes, that they may abide. Now the kingdom is prepared for you, watch ye. 4 Esd. 2:13
- And I answered, and sayd: How, and when shal these things be? why are our yeares few and euil? 4 Esd. 4:33
- And the entrance of this world were made streite, and sorowful, & paynful, and few and euil, and ful of dangers, & stuffed very much with labour. 4 Esd. 7:12
- And now I see, that the world to come shall bring delight to few, but torments unto many. 4 Esd. 7:47
- For an evil heart hath grown up in us, which hath led us astray from these statutes, and hath brought us into corruption and into the ways of death, hath shewed us the paths of perdition and removed us far from life; and that, not a few only, but well nigh all that have been created. 4 Esd. 7:48
- 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
- If thou have choice stones exceeding few, wilt thou set for thee over against them according to their number things of lead and clay? 4 Esd. 7:52
- So also is the judgement which I have promised: for I will rejoice over the few that shall be saved, inasmuch as these are they that have made my glory now to prevail, and of whom my name is now named. 4 Esd. 7:60
- And the iudge if he shal not forgeue them that are cured with his word, and wype away a multitude of contentions: there should not perhaps be leaft in an innumerable multitiude, but very few. 4 Esd. 7:139
- ¤ AND he answered me, & sayd: This world the Highest made for manie, but that to come for few. 4 Esd. 8:1
- Manie in deede are created, but few shal be saued. (Matt. 20:16) 4 Esd. 8:3
- Which thinges I haue not shewed to al, but to thee, & to few like vnto thee. And I answered, and sayd: 4 Esd. 8:62
- For thou art blessed aboue manie, and art called with the Highest as few. 4 Esd. 10:57