Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Wish’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.
The term ‘Wish’ occurs 56 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.
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Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Exodus
Exodus 2:7 And the sister of the boy said to her: “If you wish, I will go and call to you a Hebrew woman, who will be able nurse the infant.”Exodus 2:7
Number of the word / term Wish in Exodus: 1
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Leviticus
Leviticus 13:2 The man in whose skin or flesh there will have arisen a diverse color, or a pustule, or something that seems to shine, which is the mark of leprosy, shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to anyone you wish among his sons.Leviticus 13:2
Number of the word / term Wish in Leviticus: 1
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Numbers
Numbers 36:6 And so, this is the law which has been promulgated by the Lord about the daughters of Zelophehad: Let them marry whomever they may wish, but only among the men of their own tribe,Numbers 36:6
Number of the word / term Wish in Numbers: 1
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Deuteronomy
Deuteronomy 12:15 So, if you wish to eat, and if the eating of flesh pleases you, then kill and eat according to the blessing of the Lord your God, which he has given to you, in your cities: you may eat it whether it is unclean, that is, having blemish or defect, or whether it is clean, that is, whole and without blemish, of the kind which is permitted to be offered, such as the roe deer and the stag.Deuteronomy 12:15
Deuteronomy 16:5 You cannot immolate the Passover in any of your cities, which the Lord your God will give to you, that you wish,Deuteronomy 16:5
Deuteronomy 32:29 I wish that they would be wise and understanding, and would provide for the very end.’Deuteronomy 32:29
Number of the word / term Wish in Deuteronomy: 3
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Joshua
Joshua 7:7 And Joshua said: “Alas, O Lord God! Why would you want to lead this people over the river Jordan, so that you might deliver us into the hand of the Amorite and destroy us? I wish that we had remained beyond the Jordan, as when we began.Joshua 7:7
Number of the word / term Wish in Joshua: 1
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Judges
Judges 9:29 I wish that someone would set this people under my hand, so that I might take away Abimelech from their midst.” And it was told to Abimelech, “Gather the multitude of an army, and approach.”Judges 9:29
Judges 11:23 Therefore, it was the Lord, the God of Israel, who overthrew the Amorites, by means of his people Israel fighting against them. And now you wish to possess his land?Judges 11:23
Number of the word / term Wish in Judges: 2
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book 1 Samuel
1 Samuel 1:18 And she said, “I wish that your handmaid may find grace in your eyes.” And the woman went on her way, and she ate, and her countenance was no longer changed for the worse.1 Samuel 1:18
1 Samuel 14:7 And his armor bearer said to him: “Do all that is pleasing to your soul. Go wherever you wish, and I will be with you, wherever you will choose.”1 Samuel 14:7
1 Samuel 21:9 And the priest said: “Behold, here is the sword of Goliath, the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Terebinth. It is wrapped up in a cloak behind the ephod. If you wish to take this, take it. For there is nothing else here except this.” And David said, “There is nothing else like this, so give it to me.”1 Samuel 21:9
Number of the word / term Wish in 1 Samuel: 3
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 18:14 And Joab said, “It will not be as you wish. Instead, I will be assailing him in your sight.” Then he took three lances in his hand, and he fixed them in the heart of Absalom. And while he was still clinging to life upon the oak,2 Samuel 18:14
2 Samuel 21:4 And the Gibeonites said to him: “There is no quarrel for us over silver or gold, but against Saul and against his house. And we do not desire that any man of Israel be put to death.” The king said to them, “Then what do you wish that I should do for you?”2 Samuel 21:4
2 Samuel 24:24 And in response, the king said to him: “It shall not be as you wish. Instead, I will purchase it from you at a price. For I will not offer to the Lord, my God, holocausts that cost nothing.” Therefore, David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.2 Samuel 24:24
Number of the word / term Wish in 2 Samuel: 3
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book 1 Kings
1 Kings 3:5 Then the Lord appeared to Solomon, through a dream in the night, saying, “Request whatever you wish, so that I may give it to you.”1 Kings 3:5
Number of the word / term Wish in 1 Kings: 1
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book 2 Kings
2 Kings 2:9 And when they had gone across, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what you wish that I may do for you, before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “I beg you, that twice your spirit may be accomplished in me.”2 Kings 2:9
2 Kings 5:3 And she said to her lady: “I wish that my lord had been with the prophet who is in Samaria. Certainly, he would have cured him of the leprosy that he has.”2 Kings 5:3
2 Kings 5:17 And Naaman said: “As you wish. But I beg you to grant to me, your servant, that I may take from here the burden of two mules from the ground. For your servant will no longer offer holocaust or victim to other gods, except to the Lord.2 Kings 5:17
2 Kings 20:9 And Isaiah said to him: “This will be the sign from the Lord, that the Lord will do the word that he has spoken: Do you wish that the shadow may ascend ten lines, or that it may turn back for the same number of degrees?”2 Kings 20:9
2 Kings 20:10 And Hezekiah said: “It is an easy for the shadow to increase for ten lines. And so I do not wish that this be done. Instead, let it turn back for ten degrees.”2 Kings 20:10
Number of the word / term Wish in 2 Kings: 5
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book 2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 1:7 But behold, during that night God appeared to him, saying, “Request what you wish, so that I may give it to you.”2 Chronicles 1:7
Number of the word / term Wish in 2 Chronicles: 1
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Ezra
Ezra 6:12 So then, may the God who has caused his name to live there destroy any kingdoms or people who would extend their hand to fight against or to destroy that house of God, which is in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have established the decree, which I wish to be fulfilled scrupulously.”Ezra 6:12
Ezra 7:16 And all the silver and gold, as much as you will find in the entire province of Babylon, and which the people will wish to offer, and which some of the priests will offer freely to the house of their God, which is in Jerusalem,Ezra 7:16
Number of the word / term Wish in Ezra: 2
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Esther
Esther 5:3 And the king said to her, “What do you wish, queen Esther? What is your request? Even if you ask for half of the kingdom, it will be given to you.”Esther 5:3
Esther 9:12 He said to the queen, “In the city of Susa, the Jews have executed five hundred men, and also the ten sons of Haman. How many executions do you think that they have carried out in all the provinces? What more do you ask, and what do you wish, so that I may order it to be done?”Esther 9:12
Number of the word / term Wish in Esther: 2
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Job
Job 6:2 I wish that my sins, for which I deserve wrath, and the calamity that I endure, were weighed out on a balance.Job 6:2
Job 11:5 Yet I wish that God would speak with you, and would open his lips to you,Job 11:5
Job 13:5 And I wish that you would remain silent, so that you would be counted among the wise.Job 13:5
Job 16:4 I, too, can speak like you; and I also wish that your soul favored my soul. I would also comfort you with speeches and would wag my head over you.Job 16:4
Job 16:21 And I wish that a man might be so judged before God, just as the son of man is judged with his assistant!Job 16:21
Job 17:3 Free me, O Lord, and set me beside you, and let the hand of anyone you wish fight against me.Job 17:3
Job 21:29 Ask any passerby whom you wish, and you will realize that he understands these same things:Job 21:29
Job 40:5 One thing I have spoken, which I wish I had not said; and another, to which I will add no more.Job 40:5
Number of the word / term Wish in Job: 8
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Psalm
Psalm 21:2 You have granted him the desire of his heart, and you have not cheated him of the wish of his lips.Psalm 21:2
Psalm 35:27 Let them exult and rejoice, who wish my justice, and let them ever say, “The Lord be magnified,” who will the peace of his servant.Psalm 35:27
Psalm 40:14 Let them together be confounded and awed, who seek after my soul to steal it away. Let them be turned back and be in awe, who wish evils upon me.Psalm 40:14
Psalm 70:3 May those who wish evils upon me be turned back and blush with shame. May they be turned away immediately, blushing with shame, who say to me: “Well, well.”Psalm 70:3
Psalm 73:25 For what is there for me in heaven? And what do I wish for on earth before you?Psalm 73:25
Psalm 119:5 I wish that my ways may be directed so as to keep your justifications.Psalm 119:5
Number of the word / term Wish in Psalm: 6
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Isaiah
Isaiah 64:1 I wish that you would rend the heavens, and then descend! The mountains would flow away before your face.Isaiah 64:1
Number of the word / term Wish in Isaiah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Jeremiah
Jeremiah 42:22 Therefore, know with certainty now, that you will die by the sword, and by famine, and by pestilence, in the place which you wish to enter so that you may live there.”Jeremiah 42:22
Jeremiah 44:14 And there will be no one who escapes, of those who remain among the remnant of the Jews, those who have gone to sojourn in the land of Egypt. And they wish to be returned to the land of Judah, for they lift up their souls so that they might return and live there. But there will be no one who may return, except those who will flee.”Jeremiah 44:14
Number of the word / term Wish in Jeremiah: 2
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Micah
Micah 2:11 I wish that I were not a man who has breath, and that I rather spoke a lie. I will drop it down to you in wine and in drunkenness. And it will be this people on whom it will rain down.Micah 2:11
Number of the word / term Wish in Micah: 1
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Matthew
Matthew 7:12 Therefore, all things whatsoever that you wish that men would do to you, do so also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.Matthew 7:12
Matthew 15:28 Then Jesus, responding, said to her: “O woman, great is your faith. Let it be done for you just as you wish.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.Matthew 15:28
Matthew 19:17 And he said to him: “Why do you question me about what is good? One is good: God. But if you wish to enter into life, observe the commandments.”Matthew 19:17
Number of the word / term Wish in Matthew: 3
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Mark
Mark 10:35 And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, drew near to him, saying, “Teacher, we wish that whatever we will ask, you would do for us.”Mark 10:35
Mark 14:7 For the poor, you have with you always. And whenever you wish, you are able to do good to them. But you do not have me always.Mark 14:7
Number of the word / term Wish in Mark: 2
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Luke
Luke 4:6 and he said to him: “To you, I will give all this power, and its glory. For they have been handed over to me, and I give them to whomever I wish.Luke 4:6
Number of the word / term Wish in Luke: 1
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Acts
Acts 5:28 and said: “We strongly order you not to teach in this name. For behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and you wish to bring the blood of this man upon us.”Acts 5:28
Number of the word / term Wish in Acts: 1
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book 1 Corinthians
1 Corinthians 4:8 So, now you have been filled, and now you have been made wealthy, as if to reign without us? But I wish that you would reign, so that we, too, might reign with you!1 Corinthians 4:8
Number of the word / term Wish in 1 Corinthians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book 2 Corinthians
2 Corinthians 11:1 I wish that you would endure a small amount of my foolishness, so as to bear with me.2 Corinthians 11:1
Number of the word / term Wish in 2 Corinthians: 1
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Galatians
Galatians 3:2 I wish to know only this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?Galatians 3:2
Galatians 5:12 And I wish that those who disturb you would be torn away.Galatians 5:12
Number of the word / term Wish in Galatians: 2
Bible passages with ‘Wish’ in the book Revelation
Revelation 3:15 I know your works: that you are neither cold, nor hot. I wish that you were either cold or hot.Revelation 3:15
Number of the word / term ‘Wish’ in Revelation: 1
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