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The term "enters" in the Bible often signifies the act of coming into a place, situation, or state, and it is used in various contexts throughout the Scriptures. This entry explores the theological and spiritual implications of the term as it appears in the Bible, drawing from the Berean Standard Bible for specific references.

1. Divine Presence and Intervention: The concept of God entering into human history is a central theme in the Bible. In Genesis 18:1, the Lord appears to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, signifying God's direct intervention and presence in the lives of His people. This divine entering is not limited to physical appearances but also includes God's involvement in the affairs of humanity, as seen in the deliverance of Israel from Egypt (Exodus 3:7-8).

2. Jesus Christ's Ministry: The New Testament frequently uses the term "enters" in relation to Jesus Christ. In Mark 11:11, Jesus enters Jerusalem, an event that marks the beginning of the Passion Week and fulfills Old Testament prophecies about the Messiah. His entry into the city is both a literal and symbolic act, representing the coming of the Kingdom of God.

3. Spiritual Transformation: The act of entering is also used metaphorically to describe spiritual transformation and the process of salvation. In John 3:5, Jesus tells Nicodemus, "Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit." This passage highlights the necessity of spiritual rebirth for entry into God's kingdom.

4. The Heart and Mind: The Bible speaks of God's word entering the heart and mind of believers. In Hebrews 4:12, it is written, "For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart." Here, the entrance of God's word signifies its power to transform and convict.

5. Warnings and Judgments: The term is also used in the context of warnings and judgments. In Matthew 7:13, Jesus warns, "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it." This passage serves as a caution against following the path of sin and encourages believers to pursue the narrow path of righteousness.

6. Eternal Life: The ultimate entry for believers is into eternal life. In Matthew 25:21, the faithful servant is told, "Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful over a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master." This invitation to enter into eternal joy reflects the hope and promise of eternal life with God for those who are faithful.

The concept of "enters" in the Bible encompasses a range of meanings, from physical movement to profound spiritual truths. It underscores the importance of God's presence, the transformative power of faith, and the ultimate hope of eternal life.

Greek

1531. eisporeuomai -- lit. or fig. to enter
... or fig. to enter NASB Word Usage came (1), come (1), enter (5), entered (2), entering
(2), enters (1), go (1), goes (3), moving about freely* (1), went (1). ...
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1525. eiserchomai -- to go in (to), enter
... erchomai Definition to go in (to), enter NASB Word Usage came (10), come (15), comes
(3), coming (1), enter (66), entered (63), entering (6), enters (7), go (8 ...
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Strong's Hebrew

935. bo -- to come in, come, go in, go
... 3), comes (90), comes to pass (2), coming (106), departed (1), devoured* (2), enter
(127), enter and go (1), entered (74), entering (14), enters (16), entrance ...
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Library

Pauline Enters the Carmel
... OF SOEUR TH??R??SE OF LISIEUX, ENTITLED BY HERSELF: "THE STORY OF THE SPRINGTIME OF
A LITTLE WHITE FLOWER" CHAPTER III - PAULINE ENTERS THE CARMEL. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/therese/story of a soul/chapter iii - pauline enters.htm

Whether God Enters into the Composition of Other Things
... Article Eight Whether God Enters into the Composition of Other Things.
Whether God Enters into the Composition of Other Things We ...
/.../aquinas/nature and grace/article eight whether god enters.htm

Whether God Enters into the Composition of Other Things?
... OF THE SIMPLICITY OF GOD (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether God enters into the composition
of other things? ... Therefore God enters into the composition of other things. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether god enters into the.htm

The Little Flower Enters the Carmel
... CHAPTER VII THE LITTLE FLOWER ENTERS THE CARMEL. Monday, April 9, 1888, being
the Feast of the Annunciation, transferred from Passiontide ...
/.../martin/the story of a soul/chapter vii the little flower.htm

the Little Flower Enters the Carmel
... OF SOEUR TH??R??SE OF LISIEUX, ENTITLED BY HERSELF: "THE STORY OF THE SPRINGTIME OF
A LITTLE WHITE FLOWER" CHAPTER VII - THE LITTLE FLOWER ENTERS THE CARMEL. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/therese/story of a soul/chapter vii - the little.htm

Wesley Enters his Eightieth Year
... Chapter 19. An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland;
Incidents in Scotland Wesley Enters His Eightieth Year. ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/wesley enters his eightieth year.htm

Pauline Enters the Carmel
... CHAPTER III PAULINE ENTERS THE CARMEL. I was eight and a half when Leonie left school,
and I took her place at the Benedictine Abbey in Lisieux. ...
/.../martin/the story of a soul/chapter iii pauline enters the.htm

Showing the Three Ways by which one Enters into the God-Seeing ...
... THE THIRD BOOK CHAPTER I. SHOWING THE THREE WAYS BY WHICH ONE ENTERS INTO
THE GOD-SEEING LIFE. The inward lover of God, who possesses ...
/.../john/the adornment of the spritual marriage/chapter i showing the three.htm

Athanasius, after Having Been Seven Years Concealed in the House ...
... VI."Athanasius, after having been Seven Years concealed in the House of a Wise and
Beautiful Virgin, reappears at that time in Public, and enters the Church ...
/.../chapter vi athanasius after having been.htm

Saint Isaac, the Monk, Predicts the Death of Valens. Valens in his ...
... Book VI. Chapter XL."Saint Isaac, the Monk, predicts the Death of Valens. Valens
in his Flight enters a Chaff-House, is consumed, and so yields up his Life. ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of sozomenus/chapter xl saint isaac the monk.htm

Thesaurus

Enters (44 Occurrences)
...Enters (44 Occurrences). ... Matthew 15:17 Do you not understand that whatever enters
the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterwards ejected from the body? ...
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Enter (372 Occurrences)
... of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to
enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea. ...
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Volunteer (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) One who enters into, or offers for, any
service of his own free will. 2. (a.) One who enters into ...
/v/volunteer.htm - 8k

Room (174 Occurrences)
... He, however, puts them all out, takes the child's father and mother and those He
has brought with Him, and enters the room where the child lies. (WEY NAS). ...
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Bethsaida (7 Occurrences)
... Or, as some have supposed, there may have been but one Bethsaida built on both sides
of the lake, near where the Jordan enters it. Now the ruins et-Tel. Int. ...
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Shihor-libnath (1 Occurrence)
... the borders of Asher, probably the modern Nahr Zerka, ie, the "crocodile brook,"
or "blue river", which rises in the Carmel range and enters the Mediterranean ...
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Shihorlibnath (1 Occurrence)
... the borders of Asher, probably the modern Nahr Zerka, ie, the "crocodile brook,"
or "blue river", which rises in the Carmel range and enters the Mediterranean ...
/s/shihorlibnath.htm - 8k

Lebanon (66 Occurrences)
... for a distance of 100 miles, running North-Northeast and South-Southwest from the
mouth of the Litany river, the classic Leontes (which enters the sea a little ...
/l/lebanon.htm - 45k

Godhead (5 Occurrences)
... God. When we ascribe Godhead to a being, therefore, we affirm that all
that enters into the idea of God belongs to Him. "Godhead ...
/g/godhead.htm - 22k

Jordan (188 Occurrences)
... (2.) The Jabbok or Wady Zerka, formerly the northern boundary of Ammon.
It enters the Jordan about 20 miles north of Jericho. The ...
/j/jordan.htm - 70k

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Enters (44 Occurrences)

Matthew 15:11
That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."
(WEB DBY NAS)

Matthew 15:17
Do you not understand that whatever enters the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterwards ejected from the body?
(WEY DBY NIV)

Mark 5:40
To this their reply is a scornful laugh. He, however, puts them all out, takes the child's father and mother and those He has brought with Him, and enters the room where the child lies.
(WEY DBY)

Mark 7:18
"Have *you* also so little understanding?" He replied; "do you not understand that anything whatever that enters a man from outside cannot make him unclean,
(WEY NIV)

Mark 7:19
because it doth not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and into the drain it doth go out, purifying all the meats.'
(See RSV)

Mark 10:1
Soon on His feet once more, He enters the district of Judaea and crosses the Jordan: again the people flock to Him, and ere long, as was usual with Him, He was teaching them once more.
(WEY)

Mark 14:14
and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house,'The Teacher says, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'
(WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 16:16
The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
(See RSV)

Luke 22:10
He said to them, "Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

John 10:1
Verily, verily, I say to you, He that enters not in by the door to the fold of the sheep, but mounts up elsewhere, he is a thief and a robber;
(DBY)

John 10:2
But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
(WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV)

John 10:9
I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out, and will find pasture.
(WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 14:24
But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
(See NAS RSV)

Hebrews 4:10
for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own.
(See RSV NIV)

Hebrews 6:19
which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail,
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Hebrews 9:7
But only the high priest went into the second, once a year, not without making an offering of blood for himself and for the errors of the people:
(See NAS)

Hebrews 9:25
nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,
(WEB WEY DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 28:29
And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.
(See NAS NIV)

Exodus 28:30
And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD; and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
(See NIV)

Exodus 28:35
It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before Yahweh, and when he comes out, that he not die.
(See NAS NIV)

Exodus 29:30
Seven days shall the son that is priest in his stead put them on, even he who cometh into the tent of meeting to minister in the holy place.
(See NAS)

Leviticus 14:46
"Moreover he who goes into the house while it is shut up shall be unclean until the evening.
(See RSV)

Leviticus 16:17
There shall be no one in the Tent of Meeting when he enters to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, and has made atonement for himself and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.
(WEB RSV)

Numbers 4:30
you shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.
(WEB NAS)

Numbers 19:14
This is the law: when a man dieth in a tent, every one that cometh into the tent, and every thing that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
(See NIV)

2 Kings 5:18
But may your servant have the Lord's forgiveness for this one thing: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon for worship there, supported on my arm, and my head is bent in the house of Rimmon; when his head is bent in the house of Rimmon, may your servant have the Lord's forgiveness for this thing.
(See NIV)

2 Kings 12:9
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of Yahweh: and the priests who kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh.
(See NIV)

2 Chronicles 23:7
The Levites shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whoever comes into the house, let him be slain: and be with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Job 22:4
Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
(WEB NAS RSV)

Psalms 118:26
Blessed is he who comes in the name of Yahweh! We have blessed you out of the house of Yahweh.
(See RSV)

Proverbs 17:10
A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.
(WEB)

Isaiah 3:14
The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and the princes thereof: 'It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses;
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 57:2
He enters into peace; they rest in their beds, each one who walks in his uprightness.
(WEB NAS RSV)

Isaiah 59:4
No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
(See RSV)

Ezekiel 21:14
You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one who is deadly wounded, which enters into their chambers.
(WEB)

Ezekiel 26:10
By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee; at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, thy walls shall shake, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 42:9
And under these chambers 'is' the entrance from the east, in one's going into them from the outer court.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 42:12
According to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one enters into them.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 44:21
Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
(See RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 46:8
And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of the gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 46:9
But when the people of the land shall come before Yahweh in the appointed feasts, he who enters by the way of the north gate to worship shall go forth by the way of the south gate; and he who enters by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate by which he came in, but shall go forth straight before him.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 47:8
And he saith unto me, 'These waters are going forth unto the east circuit, and have gone down unto the desert, and have entered the sea; unto the sea they are brought forth, and the waters have been healed.
(See RSV NIV)

Hosea 7:1
When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
(WEB NAS)

Habakkuk 3:16
I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.
(WEB NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Enters

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