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(imp. & p. p.) of Play.

Greek

832. auleo -- to play on a flute
... Word Origin from aulos Definition to play on a flute NASB Word Usage played
on the flute (1), played the flute (2). play the flute. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7832. sachaq -- to laugh
... 3), hold a contest (1), joking (1), laugh (6), laughed them to scorn (1), laughs
(6), merrymakers (2), mock (1), mocked (1), play (2), played (1), playing (1 ...
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5528. sakal -- to be foolish or a fool
... a fool NASB Word Usage acted foolishly (2), acted...foolishly (1), done* (1),
done...foolishly (1), foolishly (1), foolishness (2), make (1), played the fool ( ...
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2181. zanah -- to commit fornication, be a harlot
... 2), harlot's* (2), harlot* (3), harlotry (3), harlots (5), making her a harlot
(1), play the harlot (18), play the harlot continually (1), played the harlot (24 ...
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5059. nagan -- to touch or play a stringed instrument
... root Definition to touch or play a stringed instrument NASB Word Usage minstrel
(1), minstrel played (1), musician (1), musicians (1), play (5), play songs (1 ...
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Library

How Brother Juniper, in Order to be Despised, Played at See-Saw
... PART TWO. HERE BEGINNETH THE LIFE OF BROTHER JUNIPER CHAPTER IX HOW BROTHER
JUNIPER, IN ORDER TO BE DESPISED, PLAYED AT SEE-SAW. ...
/.../the little flowers of st francis of assisi/chapter ix how brother juniper.htm

The Master's Touch.
... people spellbound. And as he played the listeners laughed for very delight,
and then wept for the fullness of their emotion. The ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on service/the masters touch.htm

Letters to Florence
... The Florentines played with Catherine as history shows that subtle folk to have
played with more than one of the friends whose services they accepted; the ...
/.../benincasa/letters of catherine benincasa/letters to florence.htm

History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 4
... SYRIA: THE PART PLAYED BY IT IN THE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD -- BABYLON AND
THE FIRST CHALDAEAN EMPIRE -- THE DOMINION OF THE HYKSOS: AHMOSIS. ...
/.../history of egypt chaldaea syria babylonia and assyria v 4/title page.htm

School Days
... So they held mimic tournaments and played games in which they hurled lances through
suspended rings; they shot with bows and arrows; and of course they had ...
/.../greater things the story of saint stanislaus kostka /chapter v school days.htm

The British Collapse, 1760-1801.
... For a hundred years the Moravians in England played so obscure and modest a part
in our national life that our great historians, such as Green and Lecky, do ...
/.../hutton/history of the moravian church/chapter iv the british collapse.htm

Useful Hints.
... Never let your child go where games are played that you would not allow played in
your own home. Here is where conscience and confidence will help you. ...
/.../byrum/the value of a praying mother/chapter xxvii useful hints.htm

Songs from 'the Water-Babies'
... But I lost my poor little doll, dears, As I played in the heath one day; And I cried
for more than a week, dears, But I never could find where she lay. ...
/.../kingsley/andromeda and other poems/songs from the water-babies.htm

Faithful unto Death.
... The next day the evil spirit came upon Saul in the house, and David played on his
harp to quiet him, but Saul hurled a spear at David, hoping to fasten him to ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter xxi faithful unto death.htm

A Soul's Tragedy
... singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments
of musick.7. And the women answered one another as they played, and said ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/a souls tragedy.htm

Thesaurus

Played (50 Occurrences)
... (imp. & pp) of Play. Multi-Version Concordance Played (50 Occurrences). Matthew
11:17 and say,'We played the flute for you, and you didn't dance. ...
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Prostitution (48 Occurrences)
... Genesis 38:24 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying,
"Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover ...
/p/prostitution.htm - 22k

Prostituted (6 Occurrences)
... Judges 2:17 Yet they didn't listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute
after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside ...
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Prostitute (83 Occurrences)
... Genesis 38:24 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying,
"Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover ...
/p/prostitute.htm - 33k

Whore (14 Occurrences)
... Judges 19:2 And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him
unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months. ...
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Flute (16 Occurrences)
... Matthew 11:17 and say,'We played the flute for you, and you didn't dance. We
mourned for you, and you didn't lament.' (WEB WEY NAS NIV). ...
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Assyrians (15 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 16:28 You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you
were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you ...
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Fir (22 Occurrences)
... roofing the temple (2 Chronicles 3:5); planks for shipbuilding (Ezekiel 27:5). In
2 Samuel 6:5 we read: "David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh ...
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Play (61 Occurrences)
... careless. 3. (n.) To contend, or take part, in a game; as, to play ball;
hence, to gamble; as, he played for heavy stakes. 4. (n ...
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Merry (38 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 18:7 The women sang one to another as they played, and said, "Saul
has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands." (See RSV). ...
/m/merry.htm - 18k

Bible Concordance

Played (50 Occurrences)

Matthew 11:17 and say,'We played the flute for you, and you didn't dance. We mourned for you, and you didn't lament.'
(WEB WEY NAS NIV)

Luke 7:32 They are like children sitting in the public square and calling out to one another, 'We have played the flute to you, and you have not danced: we have sung dirges, and you have not shown sorrow.'
(WEY NAS NIV)

1 Corinthians 14:7 Even inanimate things--flutes or harps, for instance--when yielding a sound, if they make no distinction in the notes, how shall the tune which is played on the flute or the harp be known?
(WEY BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Galatians 2:13 and the rest of the Jews also played the same dissembling part with him; so that even Barnabas was carried away too by their dissimulation.
(DBY)

Revelation 18:7 However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart,'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.'
(See RSV)

Genesis 31:7 and your father hath played upon me, and hath changed my hire ten times; and God hath not suffered him to do evil with me.
(YLT)

Genesis 38:24 It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV)

Numbers 15:39 and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of Yahweh, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;
(See NAS)

Judges 2:17 Yet they didn't listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh; but they didn't do so.
(WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Judges 8:27 Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel played the prostitute after it there; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.
(WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Judges 8:33 It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
(WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Judges 16:10 And Delilah saith unto Samson, 'Lo, thou hast played upon me, and speakest unto me lies; now, declare, I pray thee, to me, wherewith thou art bound.'
(YLT)

Judges 16:15 And she saith unto him, 'How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power 'is'.'
(YLT)

Judges 19:2 His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS)

1 Samuel 10:5 After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines; and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying.
(See NIV)

1 Samuel 16:16 let our lord command, we pray thee, thy servants before thee, they seek a skilful man, playing on a harp, and it hath come to pass, in the spirit of sadness 'from' God being upon thee, that he hath played with his hand, and 'it is' well with thee.'
(YLT)

1 Samuel 16:23 It happened, when the evil spirit from God was on Saul, that David took the harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

1 Samuel 18:7 The women sang one to another as they played, and said, "Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands."
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS)

1 Samuel 18:10 It happened on the next day, that an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

1 Samuel 19:9 And the evil spirit from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand.
(KJV DBY WBS)

1 Samuel 26:21 Then said Saul, "I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV)

2 Samuel 6:5 David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all manner of instruments made of fir wood, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with castanets, and with cymbals.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

2 Samuel 6:21 And David said to Michal, It was before Jehovah, who chose me rather than thy father, and than all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of Jehovah, over Israel; and I played before Jehovah.
(DBY YLT)

2 Kings 3:15 But now bring me a minstrel." It happened, when the minstrel played, that the hand of Yahweh came on him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

1 Chronicles 5:25 They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the prostitute after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV)

1 Chronicles 13:8 David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

1 Chronicles 16:5 Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
(See NAS)

2 Chronicles 21:13 but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, like as the house of Ahab did, and also have slain your brothers of your father's house, who were better than yourself:
(See NAS)

2 Chronicles 23:13 and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets; the singers also played on instruments of music, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, Treason! treason!
(WEB JPS ASV)

2 Chronicles 29:28 All the assembly worshiped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
(See NIV)

Psalms 106:39 Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.
(ASV NAS RSV)

Proverbs 30:32 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast planned devices, lay thy hand upon thy mouth.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 11:8 And played hath a suckling by the hole of an asp, And on the den of a cockatrice Hath the weaned one put his hand.
(YLT)

Jeremiah 3:1 They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again? Won't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me, says Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)

Jeremiah 3:6 Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)

Jeremiah 3:8 I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorce, yet treacherous Judah, her sister, didn't fear; but she also went and played the prostitute.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)

Ezekiel 6:9 Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
(See NAS)

Ezekiel 16:15 But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by; his it was.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 16:16 You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.
(WEB KJV ASV NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 16:17 You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them;
(WEB RSV)

Ezekiel 16:26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy whoredom, to provoke me to anger.
(See JPS NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 16:28 You have played the prostitute also with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; yes, you have played the prostitute with them, and yet you weren't satisfied.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 23:3 and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the prostitute in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 23:5 Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbors,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 23:19 Yet she multiplied her prostitution, remembering the days of her youth, in which she had played the prostitute in the land of Egypt.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 23:30 These things shall be done to you, because you have played the prostitute after the nations, and because you are polluted with their idols.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV)

Hosea 2:5 For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said,'I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Hosea 4:12 My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, 'departing' from under their God.
(ASV NAS)

Hosea 5:3 I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; for now, Ephraim, you have played the prostitute. Israel is defiled.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV)

Hosea 9:1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played the harlot, 'departing' from thy God; thou hast loved hire upon every grain-floor.
(ASV NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Played

Related Terms

Prostitution (48 Occurrences)

Prostituted (6 Occurrences)

Prostitute (83 Occurrences)

Whore (14 Occurrences)

Flute (16 Occurrences)

Assyrians (15 Occurrences)

Fir (22 Occurrences)

Play (61 Occurrences)

Merry (38 Occurrences)