English Bible words starting with I
397 meanings beginning with I, in alphabetical order. This is page 1 of 4. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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I3 words
i beseech you1 word
i forced myself1 word
i pray you1 word
I wish1 word
ibex1 word
Ibhar1 word
ibis1 word
Ibleam1 word
Ibneiah1 word
Ibnijah1 word
Ibri1 word
Ibsam1 word
Ibzan1 word
ice1 word
Ichabod1 word
Iconium1 word
Idalah1 word
Idbash1 word
Iddo4 words
idle2 words
- remiyyahרְמִיָּהdeceit: treacherous falsehood, whether spoken or acted out
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- slackness: laziness or negligent, half-hearted effort
- argosἀργόςnot working: either having no work to do, or avoiding the work that is yours
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- producing nothing: doing no good and yielding no result
- remiyyahרְמִיָּהdeceit: treacherous falsehood, whether spoken or acted out
idle talk1 word
idleness1 word
idly1 word
idol10 words
- ma'asehמַעֲשֶׂהwhat someone does or makes: a deed, a piece of work, or the thing produced by it
- eidōlonεἴδωλονan idol: a false god, or the man-made figure of one, treated as divine and given the worship that belongs to God alone
- gillulגִּלּוּלidols: the lifeless man-made objects that false worship treats as gods, named with open contempt
- peselפֶּסֶלa carved cult image: a statue made to worship, forbidden in Israel
- shiqqutsשִׁקּוּץa detestable thing: something felt as revolting, above all an idol or the equipment of pagan worship that God loathes
idol food1 word
idol's temple1 word
idolater1 word
idolatrous1 word
idolatry1 word
idols3 words
- hevelהֶבֶלidols and false gods, dismissed as worthless nothings: powerless objects of worship that promise much and deliver nothing.
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- a breath or puff of vapor, and so anything that is fleeting, insubstantial, or comes to nothing: too thin to grasp, gone before you can hold it.
- gillulגִּלּוּלidols: the lifeless man-made objects that false worship treats as gods, named with open contempt
- teraphimתְּרָפִיםhousehold gods: figured images kept for private worship and consulted for guidance
- hevelהֶבֶלidols and false gods, dismissed as worthless nothings: powerless objects of worship that promise much and deliver nothing.
Idumea1 word
Iezer1 word
if7 words
- kiכִּיwhen, if: it frames the circumstance or the case the main statement answers to
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- because, for: it attaches the reason or the grounds behind what has just been said
- that: it introduces the content of what someone sees, knows, hears, or says
- but rather, except, only: after a denial, it names what holds instead
- eanἐάνifnot studied yet
- eiεἰifnot studied yet
- imאִםif: it sets a condition, so that what follows depends on whether that thing is so
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- in an oath: a flat denial, or, when the word for "not" is added, a flat promise
- or, whether: it opens the second half of a two way question, or names the thing being asked about
- except, but rather: joined to the word for "that", it carves out the one case a denial does not cover
- anἄνifnot studied yet
- kiכִּיwhen, if: it frames the circumstance or the case the main statement answers to
Igal1 word
Igdaliah1 word
ignominy1 word
ignorance3 words
ignorant2 words
ignore2 words
- paraפָּרַעto let loose or set free from restraint: to unbind, release, or let go of what was being held in check
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- to lead, to take the lead (a contested sense resting on a single verse)
- parakouōπαρακούωto refuse to listen, and so to disregard or disobey
- paraפָּרַעto let loose or set free from restraint: to unbind, release, or let go of what was being held in check
Ijon1 word
Ikkesh1 word
Ilai1 word
ill4 words
- astheneōἀσθενέωto be sick: to suffer bodily illness or disease
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- to be weak: to lack strength, standing, or capacity, whether in faith, in conscience, in resources, or in power
- ḥalahחָלָהto become sick, weak, or wounded: to lose strength, whether by illness, exhaustion, or injury
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- to entreat someone's favor: to soften a superior's face, to plead and appease
- kakōsκακῶςbadly off in body: sick, suffering severely, or brought to a wretched end
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- in a way that is wrong: improperly, out of bad motives, or abusively
- arrōstosἄρρωστοςsick, ill: physically unwell enough to need care or healing.
- astheneōἀσθενέωto be sick: to suffer bodily illness or disease
ill repute1 word
illegitimate1 word
illness4 words
illuminate1 word
illumination1 word
Illyricum1 word
image12 words
- eikōnεἰκώνimage: a representation that not only resembles its original but actually brings it to presence
- homoiōmaὁμοίωμαlikeness: the matching form one thing takes toward another, whether an image made to stand for it or a real sharing of the same condition
- matstsevahמַצֵּבָהa standing stone: an upright stone deliberately set up to mark something that matters.
- tuposτύποςa formed impression and whatever corresponds to it: a mark, a model or pattern, an example to copy, or a foreshadowing of what is to come
- atsavעָצָבan idol: a man-made image set up and worshipped as a false god
images2 words
imagination4 words
- dianoiaδιάνοιαthe mind: a person's power to understand and think, bound up with the heart rather than standing apart from it as pure intellect
- maḥashavahמַחֲשָׁבָהa thought or plan: what the mind works out, whether an inner intention or a deliberate scheme
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- skilled design: an inventive work thought up and executed by a craftsman, including a clever device
- sherirutשְׁרִירוּתthe settled self-will of the heart: a course a person has fixed on for himself and keeps walking instead of listening to God
- yetserיֵצֶרsomething formed: a shaped object, or the human creature God shaped from dust
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- the bent of the heart: what a person forms inside, their settled disposition, plans, or intentions
imagine1 word
imbibe1 word
imitate1 word
imitator1 word
Imlah1 word
Immanuel2 words
immature1 word
immeasurable1 word
immediately3 words
Immer1 word
immerse2 words
immobilise1 word
immoderate1 word
immortal1 word
immortality2 words
immovable1 word
Imna1 word
Imnah1 word
impale1 word
- yaqaיָקַעto impale or expose a body in a solemn public execution carried out before the LORD
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- to be wrenched out of place: a joint torn from its socket, or the inner self torn away from someone in revulsion
- yaqaיָקַעto impale or expose a body in a solemn public execution carried out before the LORD
impartial1 word
impartially1 word
impassioned1 word
impatient2 words
- qatsarקָצַרto reap, to harvest: to cut down standing grain at harvest time.
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- to be short, to be shortened: cut down in length, in time, or in patience and power.
- la'ahלָאָהto be worn out: to spend one's strength or patience to the point of not being able to go on, or to wear another out that way
- qatsarקָצַרto reap, to harvest: to cut down standing grain at harvest time.
impede1 word
impediment1 word
imperial guard1 word
- praitōrionπραιτώριονthe Roman governor's official headquarters in a province: the building he lived and worked in, with its soldiers, its holding cells, and the seat where he tried cases.
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- the emperor's own guard: the elite body of soldiers stationed at imperial headquarters, spoken of as a group of men rather than a place.
- praitōrionπραιτώριονthe Roman governor's official headquarters in a province: the building he lived and worked in, with its soldiers, its holding cells, and the seat where he tried cases.
imperious1 word
imperishability1 word
imperishable1 word
implanted1 word
impose2 words
imposed1 word
impossible2 words
- adunatosἀδύνατοςimpossible: something that cannot be done or cannot happen
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- powerless: lacking the strength or ability to do something, said of a person
- anendektosἀνένδεκτοςimpossiblenot studied yet
- adunatosἀδύνατοςimpossible: something that cannot be done or cannot happen
imposter1 word
impoverished2 words
impress1 word
imprint1 word
imprison3 words
imprisonment1 word
impulse1 word
impure2 words
- akathartosἀκάθαρτοςunclean: defiled and unfit to come near what is holy, the opposite of pure.
- tameטָמֵאritually unclean: in a condition that bars a person, animal, or object from the sphere of worship until it is set right
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- morally defiled: stained by grave sin, so that a person, a people, or the land itself is fouled before God
impurities1 word
impurity3 words
- akatharsiaἀκαθαρσίαmoral impurity: a defiled condition of life, most often sexual, that is unfit for God's presence
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- filth: the rot and refuse that makes something physically foul and defiling
- tumahטֻמְאָהuncleanness: a state of impurity, ritual or moral, that keeps a person or object away from what is holy and must be cleansed.
- niddahנִדָּהimpurity that defiles and must be kept apart, pictured most concretely by a woman during her monthly period
- akatharsiaἀκαθαρσίαmoral impurity: a defiled condition of life, most often sexual, that is unfit for God's presence
impute2 words
- logizomaiλογίζομαιto credit to an account: to enter something on a person's ledger, so that it officially counts for or against them.
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- to consider: to weigh something in the mind and arrive at a settled judgment about it.
- ḥashavחָשַׁבto think something over: to consider, weigh, and form a judgment in the mind
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- to reckon: to count something toward an account and treat it as having that value
- to devise: to plan or scheme toward an end, good or harmful
- to design: to invent and work out skilled craft or artistic plans
- logizomaiλογίζομαιto credit to an account: to enter something on a person's ledger, so that it officially counts for or against them.
Imrah1 word
Imri1 word
in4 words