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The concept of "seeming" is significant in understanding human limitations in perception and the importance of discerning truth through a spiritual lens. Biblical Usage and Context 1. Human Judgment and Perception: The Bible frequently addresses the limitations of human judgment and the tendency to rely on appearances. In <a href="/1_samuel/16-7.htm">1 Samuel 16:7</a> , the Lord instructs Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not see as man does. For man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD sees the heart." This passage highlights the difference between human perception and divine insight, emphasizing that what seems right or impressive to humans may not hold true in God's eyes. 2. The Danger of Relying on Appearances: <a href="/proverbs/14-12.htm">Proverbs 14:12</a> warns, "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." This verse underscores the potential danger in trusting one's own understanding or what seems right without seeking God's guidance. It serves as a caution against self-reliance and the importance of aligning one's path with God's will. 3. Spiritual Discernment: The New Testament encourages believers to develop spiritual discernment to see beyond mere appearances. In <a href="/john/7-24.htm">John 7:24</a> , Jesus instructs, "Stop judging by outward appearances, and start judging justly." This call to righteous judgment requires believers to seek wisdom and understanding through the Holy Spirit, rather than relying solely on what seems evident to the natural eye. 4. Faith and Trust in God: <a href="/hebrews/11.htm">Hebrews 11:1</a> defines faith as "the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see." Faith involves trusting in God's promises and truths, even when they do not seem apparent or logical from a human perspective. This reliance on faith over sight is a recurring theme throughout Scripture, encouraging believers to trust in God's greater plan and purpose. 5. The Role of Wisdom: <a href="/james/1-5.htm">James 1:5</a> advises, "If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him." Seeking divine wisdom is crucial for discerning what truly is, rather than what merely seems to be. This wisdom allows believers to navigate life's complexities with a perspective rooted in God's truth. Theological Implications The concept of "seem" in the Bible serves as a reminder of the fallibility of human perception and the necessity of seeking God's perspective. It challenges believers to look beyond surface-level appearances and to cultivate a deeper understanding through prayer, study, and reliance on the Holy Spirit. By doing so, Christians are better equipped to discern truth, make righteous judgments, and live in accordance with God's will.<a name="web" id="web"></a><div class="vheading2">Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary</div>1. (v.) To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be taken as.2. (v. t.) To befit; to beseem.<a name="grk" id="grk"></a><div class="vheading2">Greek</div><a href="/greek/1380.htm">1380. dokeo -- to have an opinion, to seem</a> ... to have an opinion, to seem. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: dokeo Phonetic Spelling: (dok-eh'-o) Short Definition: I think, seem, appear, it seems ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1380.htm - 9k<a href="/greek/5316.htm">5316. phaino -- to bring to light, to cause to appear</a> ... to light, to cause to appear. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: phaino Phonetic Spelling: (fah'-ee-no) Short Definition: I shine, appear, seem Definition: ( ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5316.htm - 8k<a href="/greek/2107.htm">2107. eudokia -- good pleasure</a> ... of eu and the base of dokeo; satisfaction, ie (subjectively) delight, or (objectively) kindness, wish, purpose -- desire, good pleasure (will), X seem good. ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2107.htm - 7k<a href="/greek/1096.htm">1096. ginomai -- to come into being, to happen, to become</a> ... God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1096.htm - 15k<a href="/greek/2106.htm">2106. eudokeo -- to think well of, ie to be well-pleased</a> ... resolved. 2106 (from 2095 , "good, well" and , "to think, seem") -- properly, what seems good (pleasingly acceptable). Word Origin ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/2106.htm - 8k<a href="/greek/19.htm">19. agathosune -- to do good</a> ... 19 () occurs four times in the NT, and is apparently strictly a term, ie it does seem to appear at all in secular Greek/the papyri (see N. Turner, , 89). ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/19.htm - 6k<a href="/greek/3097.htm">3097. magos -- a Magian, ie an (Oriental) astrologer, by impl. a ...</a> ... 3097 (plural, ) -- properly, belonging to "the Magoi, a Median tribe (so Herodotus); a Magian, one of a sacred caste, originally Median, who seem to have ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3097.htm - 7k<a name="heb" id="heb"></a><div class="vheading2">Strong's Hebrew</div><a href="/hebrew/7185.htm">7185. qashah -- to be hard, severe or fierce</a> ... 2), cruel (1), defied* (1), hard (1), hard thing (1), hard-pressed (1), harden (2), hardened (1), hardens (2), harsher (1), made our hard (2), seem hard (1 ... /hebrew/7185.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/4591.htm">4591. maat -- to be or become small, diminished, or few</a> ... few (2), fewness (1), get a few (1), give less (1), had little (1), least (1), little (1), make so small (1), pay less (1), reduce (1), seem insignificant (1 ... /hebrew/4591.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/3474.htm">3474. yashar -- to be smooth, straight, or right</a> ... direct, fit, seem good meet, please will, be esteem, go right on, bring look, make,. A primitive root; to be straight or even; figuratively ... /hebrew/3474.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/7034.htm">7034. qalah -- to be lightly esteemed or dishonored</a> ... base, contemn, despise, lightly esteem, set light, seem vile. A primitive root; to be light (as implied in rapid motion), but figuratively ... /hebrew/7034.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/3191.htm">3191. yetab -- to be good or pleasing</a> ... good (1). seem good. (Aramaic) corresponding to yatab -- seem good. see HEBREW yatab. 3190, 3191. yetab. 3192 . Strong's Numbers. /hebrew/3191.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/2895.htm">2895. tob -- to be pleasing or good</a> ... be do better, cheer, be do, seem good, make goodly, please, be, do,. A primitive root, to be (transitively, do or make) good (or ... /hebrew/2895.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/3190.htm">3190. yatab -- to be good, well, glad, or pleasing</a> ... be accepted, amend, use aright, benefit, be make better, seem best. A primitive root; to be (causative) make well, literally (sound ... /hebrew/3190.htm - 7k <a href="/hebrew/5869.htm">5869. ayin -- an eye</a> ... 1), outward appearance (1), own eyes (1), please* (3), pleased* (14), pleases* (1), prefer* (2), presence (8), saw* (1), see (1), see* (1), seem (1), seemed* ( ... /hebrew/5869.htm - 7k <a href="/hebrew/7043.htm">7043. qalal -- to be slight, swift or trifling</a> ... easy, trifling, vile, etc.) -- abate, make bright, bring into contempt, (ac-)curse, despise, (be) ease(-y, -ier), (be a, make, make somewhat, move, seem a, set ... /hebrew/7043.htm - 6k <a href="/hebrew/2803.htm">2803. chashab -- to think, account</a> ... 1), pondered (1), purposed (3), reckoned (10), regard (1), regarded (8), regards (1), require an accounting (1), scheme (1), schemed (1), seem (1), skillful (1 ... /hebrew/2803.htm - 6k<a name="lib" id="lib"></a><div class="vheading2">Library</div><a href="/library/augustine/on_continence/section_2_and_lest_it.htm">And Lest it Should Seem that Necessary Continence was to be Hoped ...</a> ... Section 2. And lest it should seem that necessary Continence was to be hoped for from? 2. And lest it should seem that necessary ... //christianbookshelf.org/augustine/on continence/section 2 and lest it.htm<a href="/library/arnobius/the_seven_books_of_arnobius_against_the_heathen/8_and_yet_that_i.htm">And Yet, that I May not Seem to have no Opinion on Subjects of ...</a> ... Book I. 8 And yet, that I may not seem to have no opinion on subjects of this? And yet, that I may not seem to have no opinion ... /.../arnobius/the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/8 and yet that i.htm<a href="/library/arnobius/the_seven_books_of_arnobius_against_the_heathen/6_but_perhaps_those_seem.htm">But Perhaps those Seem to You Weak-Minded and Silly...</a> ... Book II. 6 But perhaps those seem to you weak-minded and silly? But perhaps those seem to you weak-minded and silly, who even ... /.../the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/6 but perhaps those seem.htm<a href="/library/arnobius/the_seven_books_of_arnobius_against_the_heathen/15_and_lest_it_should.htm">And Lest it Should Seem Tedious and Prolix to Wish to Consider ...</a> ... Book IV. 15 And lest it should seem tedious and prolix to wish to consider each person singly? And lest it should seem tedious ... /.../the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/15 and lest it should.htm<a href="/library/calvin/of_prayer--a_perpetual_exercise_of_faith/chapter_26_but_some_seem.htm">But Some Seem to be Moved by the Fact...</a> ... Of Prayer. John Calvin Chapter 26 But some seem to be moved by the fact? But some seem to be moved by the fact, that the prayers ... /.../calvin/of prayer--a perpetual exercise of faith/chapter 26 but some seem.htm<a href="/library/law/an_humble_affectionate_and_earnest_address_to_the_clergy/address_51_0_0_now_hard_as.htm">Now Hard as this May Seem to Unregenerate Nature...</a> ... Address 51: Now hard as this may seem to unregenerate nature? Now hard as this may seem to unregenerate nature, and yet harder ... /.../address 51 0 0 now hard as.htm<a href="/library/severus/life_and_writings_of_sulpitius_severus_/chapter_xv_but_lest_this.htm">"But Lest this Should Perchance Seem Incredible to any One...</a> ... "But lest this should perchance seem incredible to any one? "But lest this should perchance seem incredible to any one, I shall mention still greater things. ... /.../severus/life and writings of sulpitius severus /chapter xv but lest this.htm<a href="/library/traherne/centuries_of_meditations/97_general_and_public_concernments.htm">General and Public Concernments Seem at First Unmanageable</a> ... THE FOURTH CENTURY 97 General and public concernments seem at first unmanageable. General and public concernments seem at first unmanageable ... /.../traherne/centuries of meditations/97 general and public concernments.htm<a href="/library/augustine/the_enchiridion/chapter_80_sins_however_great_and.htm">Sins, However Great and Detestable, Seem Trivial when we are ...</a> ... Chapter 80."Sins, However Great and Detestable, Seem Trivial When We are Accustomed to Them. Add to this, that sins, however great ... /.../augustine/the enchiridion/chapter 80 sins however great and.htm<a href="/library/augustine/writings_in_connection_with_the_donatist_controversy_/chapter_17__26_therefore.htm">Therefore, Whether they Seem to Abide Within...</a> ... Book I. Chapter 17. " 26. Therefore, whether they seem to abide within? "26. Therefore, whether they seem to abide within, or ... /.../chapter 17 26 therefore.htm<a name="thes" id="thes"></a><div class="vheading2">Thesaurus</div><a href="/topical/s/seem.htm">Seem (115 Occurrences)</a> ... 2. (vt) To befit; to beseem. Multi-Version Concordance Seem (115 Occurrences). Matthew ... heaven. (BBE). Matthew 21:28 But how does it seem to you? ... /s/seem.htm - 38k<a href="/topical/a/assessor.htm">Assessor</a> ... (2) The early kings do not seem to have subjected the people to heavy taxes, but we ... The kings of Judah, it would seem, made free use of the temple treasures. ... /a/assessor.htm - 9k<a href="/topical/s/shinar.htm">Shinar (8 Occurrences)</a> ... Nabonassar and his successors seem to have contented themselves with the title "king of Babylon," rule in the city implying also the dominion over the whole ... /s/shinar.htm - 27k<a href="/topical/j/jebusi.htm">Jebusi (2 Occurrences)</a> ... To what race the Jebusites belonged is doubtful. Their name does not seem Semitic, and they do not make their appearance till after the patriarchal period. ... /j/jebusi.htm - 11k<a href="/topical/j/jebusite.htm">Jebusite (39 Occurrences)</a> ... To what race the Jebusites belonged is doubtful. Their name does not seem Semitic, and they do not make their appearance till after the patriarchal period. ... /j/jebusite.htm - 25k<a href="/topical/i/ir-ha-heres.htm">Ir-ha-heres</a> ... of predictive prophecy may be discussed by those so inclined, but that the intention of the author here was to utter predictive prophecy does not seem to be ... /i/ir-ha-heres.htm - 12k<a href="/topical/i/irhaheres.htm">Irhaheres</a> ... of predictive prophecy may be discussed by those so inclined, but that the intention of the author here was to utter predictive prophecy does not seem to be ... /i/irhaheres.htm - 13k<a href="/topical/e/eriaku.htm">Eriaku</a> ... Kudurmabuk would seem, from motives of policy, to have given his sons Sumerian and Semitic Babylonian names; and it is noteworthy that he did not retain the ... /e/eriaku.htm - 11k<a href="/topical/e/eri-aku.htm">Eri-aku</a> ... Kudurmabuk would seem, from motives of policy, to have given his sons Sumerian and Semitic Babylonian names; and it is noteworthy that he did not retain the ... /e/eri-aku.htm - 11k<a href="/topical/d/dor.htm">Dor (7 Occurrences)</a> ... coast of Syria. The original inhabitants seem never to have been expelled, although they were made tributary by David. It was one ... /d/dor.htm - 13k<a name="res" id="res"></a><div class="vheading2">Resources</div><a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/different-gospel.html">Why do the four Gospels seem to present a different message of salvation than the rest of the New Testament? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.org/starving-children.html">Why does God not seem to care about the millions of starving children in the world? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://www.gotquestions.blog/Christians-and-conspiracy-theories.html">Why do many Christians seem so prone to believe in conspiracy theories? | GotQuestions.org</a> <a href="https://clyx.com/term/seem.htm">Seem: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com</a> <a href="/concordance/">Bible Concordance</a> • <a href="/dictionary/">Bible Dictionary</a> • <a href="/encyclopedia/">Bible Encyclopedia</a> • <a href="/topical/">Topical Bible</a> • <a href="/thesaurus/">Bible Thesuarus</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="cnc" id="cnc"></a><div class="vheading2">Concordance</div>Seem (115 Occurrences)<a href="/matthew/18-10.htm">Matthew 18:10</a> Let it not seem to you that one of these little ones is of no value; for I say to you that in heaven their angels see at all times the face of my Father in heaven. (BBE)<a href="/matthew/21-28.htm">Matthew 21:28</a> But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden. (BBE)<a href="/matthew/23-27.htm">Matthew 23:27</a> A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things. (BBE)<a href="/matthew/23-28.htm">Matthew 23:28</a> The same is true of you: outwardly you seem to the human eye to be good and honest men, but, within, you are full of insincerity and disregard of God's Law. (WEY BBE)<a href="/matthew/26-53.htm">Matthew 26:53</a> Does it not seem possible to you that if I make request to my Father he will even now send me an army of angels? (BBE)<a href="/mark/14-64.htm">Mark 14:64</a> You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" They all condemned him to be worthy of death. (See NAS)<a href="/luke/16-15.htm">Luke 16:15</a> And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God. (BBE)<a href="/john/6-62.htm">John 6:62</a> "Does this seem incredible to you? What then if you were to see the Son of Man ascending again where He was before? (WEY)<a href="/acts/6-2.htm">Acts 6:2</a> So the Twelve called together the general body of the disciples and said, "It does not seem fitting that we Apostles should neglect the delivery of God's Message and minister at tables. (WEY)<a href="/acts/13-25.htm">Acts 13:25</a> And when John was completing his work, he said, What do I seem to you to be? I am not he; but one is coming after me, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo. (BBE)<a href="/acts/17-18.htm">Acts 17:18</a> Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, "What does this babbler want to say?" Others said, "He seems to be advocating foreign deities," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection. (Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/acts/17-20.htm">Acts 17:20</a> For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them. (BBE)<a href="/acts/25-27.htm">Acts 25:27</a> For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him." (Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)<a href="/romans/7-13.htm">Romans 7:13</a> Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil. (BBE)<a href="/1_corinthians/2-14.htm">1 Corinthians 2:14</a> For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit. (BBE)<a href="/1_corinthians/3-18.htm">1 Corinthians 3:18</a> Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. (Root in KJV BBE WBS YLT)<a href="/1_corinthians/4-10.htm">1 Corinthians 4:10</a> We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame. (BBE)<a href="/1_corinthians/8-1.htm">1 Corinthians 8:1</a> Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength. (BBE)<a href="/1_corinthians/9-11.htm">1 Corinthians 9:11</a> If we have been planting the things of the Spirit for you, does it seem a great thing for you to give us a part in your things of this world? (BBE)<a href="/1_corinthians/11-13.htm">1 Corinthians 11:13</a> Judge of this for your own selves: is it seemly for a woman to pray to God when she is unveiled? (Root in WEY ASV BBE YLT)<a href="/1_corinthians/11-14.htm">1 Corinthians 11:14</a> Does it not seem natural to you that if a man has long hair, it is a cause of shame to him? (BBE)<a href="/1_corinthians/11-16.htm">1 Corinthians 11:16</a> But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither do God's assemblies. (Root in WEB KJV ASV WBS)<a href="/1_corinthians/12-22.htm">1 Corinthians 12:22</a> No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_corinthians/12-23.htm">1 Corinthians 12:23</a> And to those parts of the body which seem to have less honour we give all the more honour; and to those parts of the body which are a cause of shame to us we give the greater respect; (BBE YLT)<a href="/1_corinthians/14-11.htm">1 Corinthians 14:11</a> If, however, I do not know the meaning of the particular language, I shall seem to the speaker of it, and he to me, to be merely talking some foreign tongue. (WEY)<a href="/2_corinthians/1-17.htm">2 Corinthians 1:17</a> If then I had such a purpose, did I seem to be changing suddenly? or am I guided in my purposes by the flesh, saying, Yes, today, and, No, tomorrow? (BBE)<a href="/2_corinthians/3-1.htm">2 Corinthians 3:1</a> Do we seem to be again attempting to put ourselves in the right? or have we need, as some have, of letters of approval to you or from you? (BBE)<a href="/2_corinthians/5-11.htm">2 Corinthians 5:11</a> Having in mind, then, the fear of the Lord, we put these things before men, but God sees our hearts; and it is my hope that we may seem right in your eyes. (BBE)<a href="/2_corinthians/10-2.htm">2 Corinthians 10:2</a> Yes, I make my request to you, so that when I am with you I may not have to make use of the authority which may be needed against some to whom we seem to be walking after the flesh. (BBE)<a href="/2_corinthians/10-9.htm">2 Corinthians 10:9</a> that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters. (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/2_corinthians/10-14.htm">2 Corinthians 10:14</a> For we have no need to make ourselves seem more than we are, as if our authority did not come as far as to you: for we came even as far as you with the good news of Christ: (BBE)<a href="/2_corinthians/11-13.htm">2 Corinthians 11:13</a> For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ. (BBE)<a href="/2_corinthians/11-15.htm">2 Corinthians 11:15</a> So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness; whose end will be the reward of their works. (BBE)<a href="/2_corinthians/11-16.htm">2 Corinthians 11:16</a> I say again, Let me not seem foolish to anyone; but if I do, put up with me as such, so that I may take a little glory to myself. (BBE)<a href="/2_corinthians/12-6.htm">2 Corinthians 12:6</a> For if I had a desire to take credit to myself, it would not be foolish, for I would be saying what is true: but I will not, for fear that I might seem to any man more than he sees me to be, or has word from me that I am. (BBE)<a href="/2_corinthians/12-19.htm">2 Corinthians 12:19</a> It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit. (BBE)<a href="/2_corinthians/13-7.htm">2 Corinthians 13:7</a> And our prayer to God is that you may do nothing wrong; not in order that our sincerity may be demonstrated, but that you may do what is right, even though our sincerity may seem to be doubtful. (WEY BBE RSV NIV)<a href="/galatians/6-12.htm">Galatians 6:12</a> Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ. (BBE)<a href="/philippians/2-6.htm">Philippians 2:6</a> To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God; (BBE)<a href="/colossians/2-23.htm">Colossians 2:23</a> These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use. (BBE)<a href="/2_thessalonians/1-11.htm">2 Thessalonians 1:11</a> For this reason, you are ever in our prayers, that you may seem to our God such as may have a part in his purpose and that by his power he will make all his good purpose, and the work of faith, complete; (BBE)<a href="/hebrews/4-1.htm">Hebrews 4:1</a> Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)<a href="/hebrews/11-3.htm">Hebrews 11:3</a> By faith it is clear to us that the order of events was fixed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made from things which only seem to be. (BBE)<a href="/james/1-7.htm">James 1:7</a> Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord; (BBE)<a href="/james/1-26.htm">James 1:26</a> If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. (KJV BBE WBS)<a href="/james/4-5.htm">James 4:5</a> Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us? (BBE)<a href="/revelation/3-1.htm">Revelation 3:1</a> And to the angel of the church in Sardis say: These things says he who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I have knowledge of your works, that you seem to be living but are dead. (BBE)<a href="/genesis/18-21.htm">Genesis 18:21</a> I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see. (BBE)<a href="/genesis/27-12.htm">Genesis 27:12</a> What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS RSV)<a href="/genesis/48-17.htm">Genesis 48:17</a> Now when Joseph saw that his father had put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it did not seem right to him; and lifting his father's hand he would have put it on the head of Manasseh. (BBE)<a href="/leviticus/13-4.htm">Leviticus 13:4</a> But if the mark on his skin is white, and does not seem to go deeper than the skin, and the hair on it is not turned white, then the priest will keep him shut up for seven days; (BBE)<a href="/leviticus/13-31.htm">Leviticus 13:31</a> And after looking at the diseased place, if it does not seem to go deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest will have him shut up for seven days: (BBE NIV)<a href="/leviticus/13-32.htm">Leviticus 13:32</a> And on the seventh day the priest will see the place: and if it is not increased, and there is no yellow hair in it, and it does not seem to go deeper than the skin, (BBE)<a href="/leviticus/13-34.htm">Leviticus 13:34</a> And on the seventh day the priest will see the place: and if it is not increased, and does not seem to go deeper than the skin, the priest will say that he is clean: and after his clothing has been washed he will be clean. (BBE)<a href="/numbers/16-9.htm">Numbers 16:9</a> Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them? (Root in KJV ASV BBE WBS)<a href="/numbers/22-29.htm">Numbers 22:29</a> And Balaam said to the ass, You have made me seem foolish: if only I had a sword in my hand I would put you to death. (BBE)<a href="/deuteronomy/15-18.htm">Deuteronomy 15:18</a> It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)<a href="/deuteronomy/25-3.htm">Deuteronomy 25:3</a> Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you. (WEB KJV ASV WBS)<a href="/joshua/8-15.htm">Joshua 8:15</a> And Joshua and all Israel 'seem' stricken before them, and flee the way of the wilderness, (YLT)<a href="/joshua/24-15.htm">Joshua 24:15</a> If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh." (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NIV)<a href="/1_samuel/15-17.htm">1 Samuel 15:17</a> And Samuel said, Though you may seem little to yourself, are you not head of the tribes of Israel? for the Lord with the holy oil made you king over Israel, (BBE)<a href="/1_samuel/18-23.htm">1 Samuel 18:23</a> Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, "Does it seems to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?" (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS RSV)<a href="/1_samuel/21-13.htm">1 Samuel 21:13</a> So changing his behaviour before them, he made it seem as if he was off his head, hammering on the doors of the town, and letting the water from his mouth go down his chin. (BBE)<a href="/1_samuel/24-4.htm">1 Samuel 24:4</a> The men of David said to him, "Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you,'Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.'" Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)<a href="/2_samuel/13-5.htm">2 Samuel 13:5</a> Then Jonadab said to him, Go to your bed, and let it seem that you are ill: and when your father comes to see you, say to him, Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread, and get the food ready before my eyes, so that I may see it and take it from her hand. (BBE)<a href="/2_samuel/13-6.htm">2 Samuel 13:6</a> So Amnon went to bed and made himself seem ill: and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, Please let my sister Tamar come and make me one or two cakes before my eyes, so that I may take food from her hand. (BBE)<a href="/2_samuel/14-2.htm">2 Samuel 14:2</a> And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead: (BBE)<a href="/2_samuel/19-37.htm">2 Samuel 19:37</a> Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, by the grave of my father and my mother. But behold, your servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the king; and do to him what shall seem good to you." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)<a href="/2_samuel/19-38.htm">2 Samuel 19:38</a> The king answered, "Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good to you. Whatever you require of me, that I will do for you." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)<a href="/1_kings/14-2.htm">1 Kings 14:2</a> And Jeroboam said to his wife, Now come, put on different clothing so that you may not seem to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; see, Ahijah is there, the prophet who said I would be king over this people. (BBE)<a href="/1_kings/14-5.htm">1 Kings 14:5</a> And the Lord had said to Ahijah, The wife of Jeroboam is coming to get news from you about her son, who is ill; give her such and such an answer; for she will make herself seem to be another woman. (BBE)<a href="/1_kings/14-6.htm">1 Kings 14:6</a> Then Ahijah, hearing the sound of her footsteps coming in at the door, said, Come in, O wife of Jeroboam; why do you make yourself seem like another? for I am sent to you with bitter news. (BBE)<a href="/1_kings/21-2.htm">1 Kings 21:2</a> Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near to my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money." (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)<a href="/1_kings/22-30.htm">1 Kings 22:30</a> And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will make a change in my clothing, so that I do not seem to be the king, and will go into the fight; but do you put on your robes. So the king of Israel made a change in his dress and went into the fight. (BBE)<a href="/1_chronicles/13-2.htm">1 Chronicles 13:2</a> David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let us send abroad everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather themselves to us; (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/1_chronicles/19-3.htm">1 Chronicles 19:3</a> But the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Does it seem to you that David is honouring your father, by sending comforters to you? is it not clear that these men have only come to go through the land and to make secret observation of it so that they may overcome it? (BBE)<a href="/2_chronicles/18-29.htm">2 Chronicles 18:29</a> And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will make a change in my clothing, so that I do not seem to be the king, and will go into the fight; but do you put on your robes. So the king of Israel made a change in his dress, and they went to the fight. (BBE)<a href="/ezra/5-17.htm">Ezra 5:17</a> Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS RSV)<a href="/ezra/7-18.htm">Ezra 7:18</a> Whatever shall seem good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, do that after the will of your God. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/nehemiah/9-32.htm">Nehemiah 9:32</a> Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keep covenant and loving kindness, don't let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)<a href="/esther/5-4.htm">Esther 5:4</a> Esther said, "If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him." (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS)<a href="/esther/8-5.htm">Esther 8:5</a> She said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)<a href="/job/2-12.htm">Job 2:12</a> And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads. (BBE)<a href="/job/6-26.htm">Job 6:26</a> My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind. (BBE)<a href="/job/8-7.htm">Job 8:7</a> Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase. (See NIV)<a href="/job/9-31.htm">Job 9:31</a> Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing. (BBE)<a href="/job/10-3.htm">Job 10:3</a> Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked? (See RSV)<a href="/job/18-3.htm">Job 18:3</a> Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge? (BBE)<a href="/job/19-15.htm">Job 19:15</a> I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country. (BBE)<a href="/job/35-2.htm">Job 35:2</a> Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say, (BBE)<a href="/job/36-21.htm">Job 36:21</a> Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this rather than affliction. (See NIV)<a href="/psalms/62-9.htm">Psalms 62:9</a> Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath. (BBE)<a href="/proverbs/13-7.htm">Proverbs 13:7</a> A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth. (BBE)<a href="/proverbs/16-2.htm">Proverbs 16:2</a> All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales. (See NIV)<a href="/proverbs/21-2.htm">Proverbs 21:2</a> Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts. (Root in BBE NIV)<a href="/proverbs/26-5.htm">Proverbs 26:5</a> Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself. (BBE)<a href="/proverbs/26-24.htm">Proverbs 26:24</a> With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him; (BBE)<a href="/proverbs/30-12.htm">Proverbs 30:12</a> There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways. (BBE)<a href="/isaiah/1-18.htm">Isaiah 1:18</a> Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool? (BBE)<a href="/isaiah/5-21.htm">Isaiah 5:21</a> Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge! 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