Genesis 23:9

That he will give me the hollow in the rock named Machpelah, which is his property at the end of his field; let him give it to me for its full price as a resting-place for my dead among you.

Genesis 23:11

No, my lord, I will give you the field with the hollow in the rock; before all the children of my people will I give it to you for a resting-place for your dead.

Genesis 23:17

So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it,

Genesis 23:19

Then Abraham put Sarah his wife to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, that is, hebron in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 23:20

And the field and the hollow rock were handed over to Abraham as his property by the children of Heth.

Genesis 25:9

And Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, put him to rest in the hollow rock of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, near Mamre;

Genesis 32:25

But when the man saw that he was not able to overcome Jacob, he gave him a blow in the hollow part of his leg, so that his leg was damaged.



Genesis 32:32

For this reason the children of Israel, even today, never take that muscle in the hollow of the leg as food, because the hollow of Jacob's leg was touched.

Genesis 49:29

And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Genesis 50:13

For they took him into the land of canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the hittite at Mamre.

Exodus 27:8

The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.

Exodus 38:7

He put the rods through the rings at the opposite sides of the altar for lifting it; he made the altar hollow, boarded in with wood.

Leviticus 14:15

And take some of the oil and put it in the hollow of his left hand;

Leviticus 14:26

And the priest will put out some of the oil in the hollow of his left hand,



Leviticus 14:37

And if he sees that the walls of the house are marked with hollows of green and red, and if it seems to go deeper than the face of the wall;

Judges 6:2

And Midian was stronger than Israel; and because of the Midianites, the children of Israel made holes for themselves in the mountains, and hollows in the rocks, and strong places.

Judges 15:19

Then God made a crack in the hollow rock in Lehi and water came out of it; and after drinking, his spirit came back to him and he was strong again; so that place was named En-hakkore; it is in Lehi to this day.

1-Samuel 13:6

When the men of Israel saw the danger they were in, (for the people were troubled,) they took cover in cracks in the hillsides and in the woods and in rocks and holes and hollows.

1-Samuel 24:3

And on the way he came to a place where sheep were kept, where there was a hollow in the rock; and Saul went in for a private purpose. Now David and his men were in the deepest part of the hollow.

1-Samuel 24:8

And after that David came out of the hollow rock, and crying after Saul said, My lord the king. And when Saul gave a look back, David went down on his face and gave him honour.

1-Samuel 24:10

Look! you have seen today how the Lord gave you up into my hands even now in the hollow of the rocks: and some would have had me put you to death, but I had pity on you: for I said, Never will my hand be lifted up against my lord, who has been marked with the holy oil.



Job 11:12

And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.

Job 30:6

They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.

Job 37:2

Give ear to the rolling noise of his voice; to the hollow sound which goes out of his mouth.

Proverbs 23:27

For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

Isaiah 5:2

And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

Isaiah 8:19

And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?

Isaiah 19:3

And the spirit of Egypt will be troubled in her, and I will make her decisions without effect: and they will be turning to the false gods, and to those who make hollow sounds, and to those who have control of spirits, and to those who are wise in secret arts.



Isaiah 40:12

In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

Jeremiah 14:6

And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.

Jeremiah 52:21

And as for the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and twelve cubits measured all round, and it was as thick as a man's hand: it was hollow.

Ezekiel 43:13

And these are the measures of the altar in cubits: (the cubit being a cubit and a hand's measure;) its hollow base is a cubit high and a cubit wide, and it has an overhanging edge as wide as a hand-stretch all round it:

Hosea 12:11

In gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.

Zephaniah 1:10

And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow;





Christian Literature

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