Lexicon :: Strong's H2015 - hāp̄aḵ

Now when God ravaged and destroyed the cities of the plain [of Siddim], He remembered Abraham [and for that reason], and He sent [Abraham’s nephew] Lot out of the midst of the destruction, when He destroyed the cities in which Lot had lived.

So Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded; Aaron lifted up the staff and struck the waters in the Nile, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, and all the water that was in the Nile was turned into blood.

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his servants had a change of heart toward the people, and they said, “What is this that we have done? We have let Israel go from serving us!”

Now his daughter-in-law, Phinehas’ wife, was pregnant, and was about to give birth; so when she heard the news that the ark of God had been taken and that her father-in-law and her husband had died, she kneeled down and gave birth, because her [labor] pains began.

Then it happened when Saul turned his back to leave Samuel, God changed his heart; and all those signs came to pass that day.

But one man drew a bow at [fn]random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. So he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn around and take me out of the fight, because I have been seriously wounded.”

Elisha said to him, “Did my heart not go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a [proper] time to accept money and clothing and olive orchards and vineyards and sheep and oxen and male and female servants?

King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all [the things] she desired, whatever she asked, [fn]besides a return for what she had brought to the king. So she returned to her own land with her servants.

Now in the twelfth month (that is, the month of Adar) on the thirteenth day when the king’s command and edict were about to be executed, on the [very] day when the enemies of the Jews had hoped to gain power over them [and slaughter them], it happened the other way around so that the Jews themselves gained power over those who hated them.

“It is God who removes the mountains, and they do not know it,

When He overturns them in His anger;

“Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up;

Again, He sends the waters out, and they overwhelm and devastate the earth.

“All the men of my council hate me;

Those I love have turned against me.

Yet his food turns [to poison] in his stomach;

It is the venom of vipers within him.

“[As for] the earth, out of it comes food,

But underneath [its surface, down deep] it is turned over as fire.

“Man puts his hand on [and tears apart] the flinty rock;

He overturns the mountains at the base [looking for treasure].

“Terrors are turned upon me;

They chase away my honor and reputation like the wind,

And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

“You have become harsh and cruel to me;

With the might of Your hand You [keep me alive only to] persecute me.

“Therefore He knows of their works,

And He overthrows them in the night,

So that they are crushed and destroyed.

“Its direction is turned around by His guidance,

That it may do whatever He commands it

On the face of the inhabited earth.