Genesis 8:7
And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
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Fro
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Ephesians 4:14
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
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שׁוּט
shûwṭ · shoot
8 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to push forth; (but used only figuratively) to lash, i.e. (the sea with oars) to row; by implication, to travel
Strong's KJV usage: go (about, through, to and fro), mariner, rower, run to and fro.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 16:9Strong's last: Zechariah 4:10
Open full H7751 profile →הָלַךְ
hâlak · haw-lak'
4 times translated as this KJV form497 total Strong's occurrences
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, be eased, enter, exercise (self), follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, × more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), send, speedily, spread, still, surely, tale-bearer, travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-) faring man, × be weak, whirl.
Strong's first: Zechariah 1:11Strong's last: Zechariah 6:7
Open full H1980 profile →κλυδωνίζομαι
klydōnízomai · kloo-do-nid'-zom-ahee
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to surge, i.e. (figuratively) to fluctuate
Strong's KJV usage: :--toss to and fro.
Strong's first: Ephesians 4:14Strong's last: Ephesians 4:14
Open full G2831 profile →אָזַל
ʼâzal · aw-zal'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to go away, hence, to disappear
Strong's KJV usage: fail, gad about, go to and fro (but in Ezekiel 27:19 the word is rendered by many 'from Uzal,' by others 'yarn'), be gone (spent).
Strong's first: Ezekiel 27:19Strong's last: Ezekiel 27:19
Open full H235 profile →אֶחָד
ʼechâd · ekh-awd'
1 times translated as this KJV form942 total Strong's occurrences
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
Strong's KJV usage: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-) ly, each (one), eleven, every, few, first, highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
Strong's first: 2 Kings 4:35Strong's last: 2 Kings 4:35
Open full H259 profile →חָגַג
châgag · khaw-gag'
1 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to move in a circle, i.e. (specifically) to march in a sacred procession, to observe a festival; by implication, to be giddy
Strong's KJV usage: celebrate, dance, (keep, hold) a (solemn) feast (holiday), reel to and fro.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 107:27Strong's last: Psalms 107:27
Open full H2287 profile →מַשָּׁק
mashshâq · mash-shawk'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a traversing, i.e. rapid motion
Strong's KJV usage: running to and fro.
Strong's first: Isaiah 33:4Strong's last: Isaiah 33:4
Open full H4944 profile →נָדֻד
nâdud · naw-dood'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
properly, tossed; abstractly, a rolling (on the bed)
Strong's KJV usage: tossing to and fro.
Strong's first: Job 7:4Strong's last: Job 7:4
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nâdaph · naw-daf'
1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
to shove asunder, i.e. disperse
Strong's KJV usage: drive (away, to and fro), thrust down, shaken, tossed to and fro.
Strong's first: Job 13:25Strong's last: Job 13:25
Open full H5086 profile →נוּעַ
nûwaʻ · noo'-ah
1 times translated as this KJV form40 total Strong's occurrences
to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)
Strong's KJV usage: continually, fugitive, × make, to (go) up and down, be gone away, (be) move(-able, -d), be promoted, reel, remove, scatter, set, shake, sift, stagger, to and fro, be vagabond, wag, (make) wander (up and down).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 24:20Strong's last: Isaiah 24:20
Open full H5128 profile →סוּר
çûwr · soor
1 times translated as this KJV form308 total Strong's occurrences
to turn off (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), × grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, × be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 49:21Strong's last: Isaiah 49:21
Open full H5493 profile →שׁוּב
shûwb · shoob
1 times translated as this KJV form1,105 total Strong's occurrences
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
Strong's KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) × again, (cause to) answer ( again), × in any case (wise), × at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, × certainly, come again (back), × consider, continually, convert, deliver (again), deny, draw back, fetch home again, × fro, get (oneself) (back) again, × give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, × needs, be past, × pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, × surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 8:7Strong's last: Genesis 8:7
Open full H7725 profile →שָׁקַק
shâqaq · shaw-kak'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to course (like a beast of prey); by implication, to seek greedily
Strong's KJV usage: have appetite, justle one against another, long, range, run (to and fro).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Joel 2:9Strong's last: Joel 2:9
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H7725
And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
H259
Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
H7751
For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
H7751
And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
H7751
And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
H5076
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
H5086
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
H2287
They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
no direct Strong's tag
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
H5128
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
H4944
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
H5493
Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
H7751
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
H7751
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
H235
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
H7751
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
H8264
They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.
H7751
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
no direct Strong's tag
And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.
H1980
And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
H7751
For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
H1980
And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
H1980
And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
H1980
And the bay went forth, and sought to go that they might walk to and fro through the earth: and he said, Get you hence, walk to and fro through the earth. So they walked to and fro through the earth.
G2831
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
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fro
FRO, adverb [In some languages it is a prefix, having the force of a negative.]
FROm; away; back or backward; as in the phrase, to and fro that is, to and from, forward or toward and backward, hither and thither.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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