“afar” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word afar appears 88 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 50 matching verses are shown below.
- Genesis 22:4 And on the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place afar off.
- Genesis 24:63 And he was gone forth to meditate in the field, the day being now well spent: and when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw camels coming afar off.
- Genesis 37:18 And when they saw him afar off, before he came nigh them, they thought to kill him:
- Exodus 2:4 His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.
- Exodus 20:18 And all the people saw the voices and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking; and being terrified and struck with fear, they stood afar off,
- Exodus 20:21 And the people stood afar off. But Moses went to the dark cloud wherein God was.
- Exodus 24:1 And he said to Moses: Come up to the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab and Abiu, and seventy of the ancients of Israel, and you shall adore afar off.
- Exodus 24:11 Neither did he lay his hand upon those of the children of Israel, that retired afar off, and they saw God, and they did eat and drink.
- Exodus 33:7 Moses also taking the tabernacle, pitched it without the camp afar off, and called the name thereof, The tabernacle of the covenant. And all the people, that had any question, went forth to the tabernacle of the covenant, without the camp.
- Numbers 9:10 Say to the children of Israel: The man that shall be unclean by occasion of one that is dead, or shall be in a journey afar off in your nation, let him make the phase to the Lord.
- Deuteronomy 13:7 Of all the nations round about, that are near or afar off, from one end of the earth to the other,
- Deuteronomy 28:49 The Lord will bring upon thee a nation from afar, and from the uttermost ends of the earth, like an eagle that flyeth swiftly, whose tongue thou canst not understand,
- Deuteronomy 29:22 And the following generation shall say, and the children that shall be born hereafter, and the strangers that shall come from afar, seeing the plagues of that land and the evils wherewith the Lord hath afflicted it,
- Josue 3:4 And let there be between you and the ark the space of two thousand cubits: that you may see it afar off, and know which way you must go: for you have not gone this way before: and take care you come not near the ark.
- Josue 3:16 The waters that came down from above stood in one place, and swelling up like a mountain, were seen afar off, from the city that is called Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were beneath, ran down into the sea of the wilderness, (which now is called the Dead Sea) until they wholly failed.
- 1 Kings 26:13 And when David was gone over to the other side, and stood on the top of the hill afar off, and a good space was between them,
- 2 Kings 15:17 And the king going forth and all Israel on foot, stood afar off from the house:
- 2 Paralipomenon 5:13 So when they all sounded together, both with trumpets, and voice, and cymbals, and organs, and with divers kind of musical instruments, and lifted up their voice on high: the sound was heard afar off, so that when they began to praise the Lord, and to say: Give glory to the Lord for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever: the house of God was filled with a cloud.
- 2 Paralipomenon 6:36 And if they sin against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them up to their enemies, and they lead them away captive to a land either afar off, or near at hand,
- 2 Paralipomenon 20:24 And when Juda came to the watch tower, that looketh toward the desert, they saw afar off all the country, for a great space, full of dead bodies, and that no one was left that could escape death.
- 1 Esdras 3:13 So that one could not distinguish the voice of the shout of joy, from the noise of the weeping of the people: for one with another the people shouted with a loud shout, and the voice was heard afar off.
- 2 Esdras 12:42 And they sacrificed on that day great sacrifices, and they rejoiced: for God had made them joyful with great joy: their wives also and their children rejoiced, and the joy of Jerusalem was heard afar off.
- Tobias 10:7 But she could by no means be comforted, but daily running out looked round about, and went into all the ways by which there seemed any hope he might return, that she might if possible see him coming afar off.
- Tobias 11:5 But Anna sat beside the way daily, on the top of a hill, from whence she might see afar off.
- Tobias 11:6 And while she watched his coming from that place, she saw him afar off, and presently perceived it was her son coming: and returning she told her husband, saying: Behold thy son cometh.
- Tobias 13:14 Nations from afar shall come to thee: and shall bring gifts, and shall adore the Lord in thee, and shall esteem thy land as holy.
- Judith 13:13 And Judith from afar off cried to the watchmen upon the walls: Open the gates for God is with us, who hath shewn his power in Israel.
- Esther 9:20 And Mardochai wrote all these things, and sent them comprised in letters to the Jews that abode in all the king’s provinces, both those that lay near and those afar off,
- Job 2:12 And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him not, and crying out, they wept, and rending their garments, they sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
- Job 36:25 All men see him, every one beholdeth afar off.
- Job 39:25 When he heareth the trumpet he saith: Ha, ha: he smelleth the battle afar off, the encouraging of the captains, and the shouting of the army.
- Job 39:29 From thence she looketh for the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.
- Psalms 37:12 My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against me. And they that were near me stood afar off:
- Psalms 64:6 Wonderful in justice. Hear us, O God our saviour, who art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and in the sea afar off.
- Psalms 137:6 For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low: and the high he knoweth afar off.
- Psalms 138:3 Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.
- Proverbs 27:10 Thy own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not: and go not into thy brother’s house in the day of thy affliction. Better is a neighbour that is near than a brother afar off.
- Proverbs 31:14 She is like the merchant’s ship, she bringeth her bread from afar.
- Wisdom 14:17 And those whom men could not honour in presence, because they dwelt far off, they brought their resemblance from afar, and made an express image of the king, whom they had a mind to honour: that by this their diligence, they might honour as present, him that was absent.
- Ecclesiasticus 21:8 He that is mighty by a bold tongue is known afar off, but a wise man knoweth to slip by him.
- Ecclesiasticus 24:44 For I make doctrine to shine forth to all as the morning light, and I will declare it afar off.
- Ecclesiasticus 27:22 Follow after him no more, for he is gone afar off, he is fled, as a roe escaped out of the snare because his soul is wounded.
- Isaias 5:26 And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off, and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come with speed swiftly.
- Isaias 8:9 Gather yourselves together, O ye people, and be overcome, and give ear, all ye lands afar off: strengthen yourselves, and be overcome, gird yourselves, and be overcome.
- Isaias 10:3 What will you do in the day of visitation, and of the calamity which cometh from afar? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?
- Isaias 13:5 To them that come from a country afar off, from the end of heaven: the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy the whole land.
- Isaias 23:7 Is not this your city, which gloried from of old in her antiquity? her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
- Isaias 30:27 Behold the name of the Lord cometh from afar, his wrath burneth, and is heavy to bear: his lips are filled with indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire.
- Isaias 43:6 I will say to the north: Give up: and to the south: Keep not back: bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth.
- Isaias 46:12 I have brought my justice near, it shall not be afar off: and my salvation shall not tarry. I will give salvation in Sion, and my glory in Israel.