Ecclesiastes 3:7

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Cross References

Genesis 37:29

Re'uven returned to the pit; and saw that Yosef wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.

Genesis 37:34

Ya`akov tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

Genesis 44:18

Then Yehudah came near to him, and said, *Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and don't let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Par`oh.

Genesis 44:34

For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me?--lest I see the evil that will come on my father.*

2 Samuel 1:11

Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him:

2 Samuel 3:31

David said to Yo'av, and to all the people who were with him, Tear your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Aviner. King David followed the bier.

1 Kings 21:27

It happened, when Ach'av heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

2 Kings 18:36

But the people held their shalom, and answered him not a word; for the king's mitzvah was, saying, Don't answer him.

2 Kings 5:7

It happened, when the king of Yisra'el had read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man does send to me to recover a man of his leprosy? but consider, I pray you, and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.

2 Kings 6:30

It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth within on his flesh.

Esther 7:4

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I would have held my shalom, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's loss.*

Job 2:13

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

Psalm 39:2

I was mute with silence. I held my shalom, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Isaiah 36:21

But they remained silent, and said nothing in reply, for the king's mitzvah was, *Don't answer him.*

Jeremiah 36:24

They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.

Jeremiah 8:14

Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for the LORD our God has put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.

Lamentations 3:28

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

Joel 2:13

Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

Amos 5:13

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

Amos 8:3

The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day,* says the Lord GOD. *The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

Micah 7:5

Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

Acts 4:20

for we can't help telling the things which we saw and heard.*

Acts 9:39

Kefa got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper chamber. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

1 Samuel 10:16

Sha'ul said to his uncle, He told us plainly that the donkeys were found. But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which Shemu'el spoke, he didn't tell him.