OT.filter - bes Rather:

bes@Genesis:38:26 @ And Judas knew them, and said, Thamar is cleared rather than I, forasmuch as I gave her not to Selom my son: and he knew her not again.

bes@Judges:5:14 @ Ephraim rooted them out in Amalec, behind thee was Benjamin among thy people: the inhabitants of Machir came down with me searching out the enemy, and from Zabulon came they that (note:)Rather, draw or handle the scribe’s pen, etc.(:note) draw with the scribe’s pen of record.

bes@2Samuel:10:3 @ And the princes of the children of Ammon said to Annon their lord, Is it to honour thy father before thee that David has sent comforters to thee? Has not David rather sent his servants to thee that they should search the city, and spy it out and examine it?

bes@1Kings:7:50 @ And there were made the (note:)Or, rather work about the door(:note) porches, and the nails, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the golden censers, Gr. shut up of pure gold: and the panels of the doors of the innermost part of the house, even the holy of holies, and the golden doors of the temple.

bes@Job:19:13 @ My brethren have stood aloof from me; they have recognized strangers rather than me: and my friends have become pitiless.

bes@Job:27:7 @ Nay rather, but let mine enemies be as the overthrow of the ungodly, and they that rise up against me, as the destruction of transgressors.

bes@Psalms:1:4 @ Not so the ungodly; —not so: but rather as the (note:)Or, dust or down(:note) chaff which the wind scatters away from the face of the earth.

bes@Psalms:84:10 @ For one day in thy courts is better than thousands. I would rather be an abject in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners.

bes@Proverbs:8:10 @ Receive instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than tried gold.

bes@Proverbs:15:18 @ A passionate man stirs up strife; but he that is slow to anger appeases even a (note:)Gr. future(:note) rising one. (15:18AA) A man slow to anger will extinguish quarrels; but an ungodly man rather stirs them up.

bes@Proverbs:18:2 @ A senseless man feels no need of wisdom, for he is rather led by folly.

bes@Proverbs:29:20 @ If thou see a man hasty in his words, know that the fool has hope rather than he.

bes@Jeremiah:1:11 @ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, What seest thou? And I said, A rod of an (note:)Or, rather nut-tree(:note) almond tree.

bes@Jeremiah:8:3 @ because they chose death rather than life, even to all the remnant that are left of that family, in every place whither I shall drive them out.

bes@Hosea:3:4 @ For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an altar, and without a priesthood, and without (note:)Gr. dhlwn, Urim and Thummim probably meant, or rather Urim only(:note) manifestations.

bes@Wis:8:20 @ Yea rather, being good, I came into a body undefiled.

bes@Tob:3:6 @ Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved, and become earth: for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and have much sorrow: command therefore that I may now be delivered out of this distress, and go into the everlasting place: turn not thy face away from me.

bes@Tob:6:12 @ And the maid is fair and wise: now therefore hear me, and I will speak to her father; and when we return from Rages we will celebrate the marriage: for I know that Raguel cannot marry her to another according to the law of Moses, but he shall be guilty of death, because the right of inheritance doth rather appertain to thee than to any other.

bes@Tob:14:4 @ Go into Media my son, for I surely believe those things which Jonas the prophet spake of Nineve, that it shall be overthrown; and that for a time peace shall rather be in Media; and that our brethren shall lie scattered in the earth from that good land: and Jerusalem shall be desolate, and the house of God in it shall be burned, and shall be desolate for a time;

bes@Sir:25:16 @ I had rather dwell with a lion and a dragon, than to keep house with a wicked woman.

bes@1Macc:1:63 @ Wherefore the rather to die, that they might not be defiled with meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: so then they died.

bes@1Macc:9:9 @ But they dehorted him, saying, We shall never be able: let us now rather save our lives, and hereafter we will return with our brethren, and fight against them: for we are but few.

bes@2Macc:6:19 @ But he, choosing rather to die gloriously, than to live stained with such an abomination, spit it forth, and came of his own accord to the torment,

bes@2Macc:6:23 @ But he began to consider discreetly, and as became his age, and the excellency of his ancient years, and the honour of his gray head, whereon was come, and his most honest education from a child, or rather the holy law made and given by God: therefore he answered accordingly, and willed them straightways to send him to the grave.

bes@2Macc:7:2 @ But one of them that spake first said thus, What wouldest thou ask or learn of us? we are ready to die, rather than to transgress the laws of our fathers.

bes@2Macc:10:12 @ For Ptolemeus, that was called Macron, choosing rather to do justice unto the Jews for the wrong that had been done unto them, endeavoured to continue peace with them.

bes@2Macc:11:24 @ We understand also that the Jews would not consent to our father, for to be brought unto the custom of the Gentiles, but had rather keep their own manner of living: for the which cause they require of us, that we should suffer them to live after their own laws.

bes@2Macc:14:42 @ Choosing rather to die manfully, than to come into the hands of the wicked, to be abused otherwise than beseemed his noble birth:

bes@3Macc:1:29 @ Not the men only, but the very walls and floor seemed to sound forth; all things preferring dissolution rather than to see the place defiled.

bes@3Macc:3:21 @ Accordingly, bearing no ill-will against their kinsmen but rather remembering our connection with them, and the numerous matters with sincere heart from a remote period entrusted to them, we wished to venture a total alteration of their state, by bestowing upon them the rights of citizens of Alexandria, and to admit them to the everlasting rites of our solemnities.

bes@3Macc:6:6 @ When the three friends in the land of Babylon of their own will exposed their lives to the fire rather than serve vain things, thou didst send a dewy coolness through the fiery furnace, and bring the fire upon all their adversaries.

bes@3Macc:6:31 @ Then they who were before despised and nigh unto hades, yea, rather advanced into it, partook of the cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death. Full of exultation, they parted out the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths.

bes@4Macc:15:3 @ rather elected the religion which according to God preserves to eternal life.

bes@4Macc:16:13 @ But as one possessed with an adamantine mind, and as one bringing forth again her full number of sons to immortality, she rather with supplication exhorted them to death in behalf of religion.

bes@4Macc:17:1 @ And some of the spearbearers said, that when she herself was about to be seized for the purpose of being put to death, she threw herself upon the pile, rather than they should touch her person.