Lexicon :: Strong's G4159 - pothen

He said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going? ”

She replied, “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai.”

Jacob asked the men at the well, “My brothers! Where are you from? ”

“We’re from Haran,” they answered.

When Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them like strangers and spoke harshly to them.

“Where do you come from? ” he asked.

“From the land of Canaan to buy food,” they replied.

“Where can I get meat to give all these people? For they are weeping to me, ‘Give us meat to eat! ’

They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.”

Then Joshua asked them, “Who are you and where do you come from? ”

Then the woman went and told her husband, “A man of God came to me. He looked like the awe-inspiring angel of God. I didn’t ask him where he came from, and he didn’t tell me his name.

“Where do you come from? ” Micah asked him.

He answered him, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I’m going to stay wherever I can find a place.”

When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where do you come from? ”

“Am I supposed to take my bread, my water, and my meat that I butchered for my shearers and give them to these men? I don’t know where they are from.”

Then David said to him, “Who do you belong to? Where are you from? ”

“I’m an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite man,” he said. “My master abandoned me when I got sick three days ago.

David asked him, “Where have you come from? ”

He replied to him, “I’ve escaped from the Israelite camp.”

David inquired of the young man who had brought him the report, “Where are you from? ”

“I’m the son of a resident alien,” he said. “I’m an Amalekite.”

Gehazi came and stood by his master. “Where did you go, Gehazi? ” Elisha asked him.

He replied, “Your servant didn’t go anywhere.”

He answered, “If the LORD doesn’t help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor or the winepress? ”

Then the prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah and asked him, “Where did these men come from and what did they say to you? ”

Hezekiah replied, “They came from a distant country, from Babylon.”

The LORD asked Satan, “Where have you come from? ”

“From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered him, “and walking around on it.”

The LORD asked Satan, “Where have you come from? ”

“From roaming through the earth,” Satan answered him, “and walking around on it.”

But where can wisdom be found,

and where is understanding located?

Where then does wisdom come from,

and where is understanding located?

What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?[fn]

Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?

I lift my eyes toward the mountains.

Where will my help come from?

If you have nothing with which to pay,

even your bed will be taken from under you.

Then the prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did these men say, and where did they come to you from? ”

Hezekiah replied, “They came to me from a distant country, from Babylon.”

“Look, you are nothing

and your work is worthless.

Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

“When I look, there is no one;

there is no counselor among them;

when I ask them, they have nothing to say.

Why has my pain become unending,

my wound incurable,

refusing to be healed?

You truly have become like a mirage to me —

water that is not reliable.

Then they asked Baruch, “Tell us, how did you write all these words? At his dictation? ”[fn]

Make Moab a salt marsh,[fn]

for she will run away;[fn]

her towns will become a desolation,

without inhabitant.

Then they said to him, “Tell us who is to blame for this trouble we’re in. What is your business, and where are you from? What is your country, and what people are you from? ”

Then all who see you will recoil from you, saying,

“Nineveh is devastated;

who will show sympathy to her? ”

Where can I find anyone to comfort you?