Means

• Punishment

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no Means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no Means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

Then were the horsehoofs broken by the Means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.

• Delilah
• Bribery

And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what Means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise Means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

• Chariots
• Commerce
• Horses

And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their Means.

And as the king passed by, he cried unto the king: and he said, Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle; and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any Means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.

And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their Means.

We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and the walls thereof set up, by this Means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river.

None of them can by any Means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him:

For by Means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their Means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?

• Incense
• Presumption
• FIGURATIVE

And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your Means: will he regard your persons? saith the LORD of hosts. Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand. For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible. read more Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the LORD. But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen. show less

Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no Means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.

And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought Means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.

They also which saw it told them by what Means he that was possessed of the devils was healed.

Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any Means hurt you.

But by what Means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.

If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what Means he is made whole;

But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all Means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.

And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any Means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.

Making request, if by any Means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.

If by any Means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.

But take heed lest by any Means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all Means save some.

• Stoicism

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any Means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

• Intercession
• Thankfulness

Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the Means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

But I fear, lest by any Means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

• Games

And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any Means I should run, or had run, in vain.

If by any Means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.

For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some Means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

• Miracles

Let no man deceive you by any Means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all Means. The Lord be with you all.

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by Means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

• Miracles

And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the Means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.