Lexicon :: Strong's G611 - apokrinomai

“Where is your wife Sarah? ” they asked him.

“There, in the tent,” he answered.

Then Abraham answered, “Since I have ventured to speak to my lord ​— ​even though I am dust and ashes ​— ​

The Hethites replied to Abraham,[fn]

Ephron was sitting among the Hethites. So in the hearing[fn] of all the Hethites who came to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hethite answered Abraham:

Ephron answered Abraham and said to him,

Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.[fn]

But Isaac answered Esau, “Look, I have made him a master over you, have given him all of his relatives as his servants, and have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son? ”

His father Isaac answered him,

Look, your dwelling place will be

away from the richness of the land,

away from the dew of the sky above.

Then Rachel and Leah answered him, “Do we have any portion or inheritance in our father’s family?

Jacob answered, “I was afraid, for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.

Then Jacob became incensed and brought charges against Laban. “What is my crime? ” he said to Laban. “What is my sin, that you have pursued me?

Then Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters; the children, my children; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne?

But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully because he had defiled their sister Dinah.

“This is its interpretation,” Joseph replied. “The three baskets are three days.

“I am not able to,” Joseph answered Pharaoh. “It is God who will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”[fn]

But Reuben replied, “Didn’t I tell you not to harm the boy? But you wouldn’t listen. Now we must account for his blood! ”[fn]

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living? ” But they could not answer him because they were terrified in his presence.

Moses answered, “What if they won’t believe me and will not obey me but say, ‘The LORD did not appear to you’? ”

Then all the people responded together, “We will do all that the LORD has spoken.” So Moses brought the people’s words back to the LORD.

As the sound of the ram’s horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in the thunder.

“But if the slave declares, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to leave as a free man,’

Moses came and told the people all the commands of the LORD and all the ordinances. Then all the people responded with a single voice, “We will do everything that the LORD has commanded.”

Joshua son of Nun, assistant to Moses since his youth,[fn] responded, “Moses, my lord, stop them! ”

The men went back to Moses, Aaron, and the entire Israelite community in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for them and the whole community, and they showed them the fruit of the land.

He said to them, “Spend the night here, and I will give you the answer the LORD tells me.” So the officials of Moab stayed with Balaam.

But Balaam responded to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go against the command of the LORD my God to do anything small or great.

But Balaam answered him, “Didn’t I tell you: Whatever the LORD says, I must do? ”

The Gadites and Reubenites replied, “What the LORD has spoken to your servants is what we will do.

“You replied to me, ‘What you propose to do is good.’

“You answered me, ‘We have sinned against the LORD. We will go up and fight just as the LORD our God commanded us.’ Then each of you put on his weapons of war and thought it would be easy to go up into the hill country.

“If it accepts your offer of peace and opens its gates to you, all the people found in it will become forced laborers for you and serve you.

“They will declare, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood; our eyes did not see it.

“then his sister-in-law will go up to him in the sight of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. Then she will declare, ‘This is what is done to a man who will not build up his brother’s house.’

“You are to respond by saying in the presence of the LORD your God:

My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with a few people and resided there as an alien. There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.

“The Levites will proclaim in a loud voice to every Israelite:

They answered Joshua, “Everything you have commanded us we will do, and everywhere you send us we will go.

Achan replied to Joshua, “It is true. I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. This is what I did:

The Gibeonites answered him, “It was clearly communicated to your servants that the LORD your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you. We greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we did this.

“I was forty years old when Moses the LORD’s servant sent me from Kadesh-barnea to scout the land, and I brought back an honest report.

The Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh answered the heads of the Israelite clans,

Then the priest Phinehas son of Eleazar and the leaders returned from the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead to the Israelites in the land of Canaan and brought back a report to them.

The people replied, “We will certainly not abandon the LORD to worship other gods!

Her wisest princesses answer her;

she even answers herself:

His friend answered, “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has handed the entire Midianite camp over to him.”

He went from there to Penuel and asked the same thing from them. The men of Penuel answered just as the men of Succoth had answered.

The five men who had gone to scout out the land of Laish told their brothers, “Did you know that there are an ephod, household gods, and a carved image and a silver idol[fn] in these houses? Now think about what you should do.”

“Get up,” he told her. “Let’s go.” But there was no response. So the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.

The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered, “I went to Gibeah in Benjamin with my concubine to spend the night.

The servant answered, “She is the young Moabite woman who returned with Naomi from the territory of Moab.