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In the context of the Bible, the concept of "moves" can be understood in various ways, including physical movement, spiritual guidance, and divine intervention. The term encompasses the actions and transitions of individuals, groups, and even God Himself throughout the biblical narrative.

Physical Movement

Physical movement is a recurring theme in the Bible, often signifying obedience, faith, and the unfolding of God's plan. One of the most significant examples is the Exodus, where Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt. This monumental move is a demonstration of God's deliverance and faithfulness. In Exodus 13:21 , it is written, "And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night."

Another notable instance is the journey of Abraham, who obeyed God's call to leave his homeland. Genesis 12:1 states, "Then the LORD said to Abram, 'Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.'" Abraham's move is a testament to his faith and the beginning of God's covenant with him.

Spiritual Guidance

The Bible also speaks of spiritual movement, where individuals are led by the Holy Spirit. In the New Testament, the early church experienced significant growth and movement as the apostles spread the Gospel. Acts 1:8 records Jesus' words, "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

The Apostle Paul is a prime example of spiritual movement, as he undertook missionary journeys to spread Christianity. His movements were often directed by the Holy Spirit, as seen in Acts 16:6-7 : "Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them."

Divine Intervention

God's movements are also a central theme in the Bible, illustrating His sovereignty and involvement in human history. The movement of God is often depicted as a powerful force that brings about His will. In Genesis 1:2 , the Spirit of God is described as moving over the waters during creation: "Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters."

The movement of God is also evident in the life of Jesus Christ. His incarnation, ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection are divine moves that fulfill God's redemptive plan for humanity. In John 1:14 , it is written, "The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth."

Symbolic Movement

Symbolic movement in the Bible often represents spiritual truths or prophetic actions. For instance, the movement of the Ark of the Covenant symbolizes God's presence with His people. In 2 Samuel 6:2 , David moves the Ark to Jerusalem, signifying the centrality of God's presence in the life of Israel: "And David and all his men went to Baale of Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name—the name of the LORD of Hosts, who is enthroned between the cherubim that are on it."

In prophetic literature, movements often symbolize future events or divine judgments. Ezekiel's visions, for example, include symbolic movements that convey God's messages to Israel.
Greek
5054. teleute -- a finishing, end, ie death
... 5054 (), used only in Mt 2:15, expresses (consummation) in terms of how --
down to day He moves each person off the scene of earth (cf. ...
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Strong's Hebrew
2123a. ziz -- moving things (ie beasts)
... 2123, 2123a. ziz. 2123b . moving things (ie beasts). Transliteration:
ziz Short Definition: moves. Word Origin from an unused word ...
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5068. nadab -- to incite, impel
... impel NASB Word Usage freewill offering (1), given as a freewill offering (1), made
offering (1), make offerings willingly (1), moved (2), moves (1), offer (1 ...
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1980. halak -- to go, come, walk
... 1), lead (2), leads (1), leave (1), leave* (3), led (14), left (2), live (1), living
(1), march (4), marches (1), move (2), moved (8), moves (1), moving (1 ...
/hebrew/1980.htm - 8k

7430. ramas -- to creep, move lightly, move about
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to creep, move lightly, move about NASB Word
Usage creep (1), creeps (7), moved (1), moves (6), prowl about (1), swarm (1). ...
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5472. sug -- to move away, backslide
... root Definition to move away, backslide NASB Word Usage backslider (1), drawing
(1), move (4), moves (1), remove (1), turn (2), turn back (1), turned (8 ...
/hebrew/5472.htm - 6k

6275. atheq -- to move, proceed, advance
... root Definition to move, proceed, advance NASB Word Usage become old (1), continue
(1), failed (1), moved (1), moved away (1), moves (1), proceeded (1 ...
/hebrew/6275.htm - 6k

Library

Whether the Will Moves the Intellect?
... OF THE WILL (FIVE ARTICLES) Whether the will moves the intellect? ... Objection 2: Further,
what moves is not moved by what is moved, except perhaps accidentally. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the will moves the.htm

Whether the Will Moves Itself?
... OF THAT WHICH MOVES THE WILL (SIX ARTICLES) Whether the will moves itself? ... Therefore
nothing moves itself. Neither, therefore, can the will move itself. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the will moves itself.htm

Of that which Moves the Will (Six Articles)
... OF THAT WHICH MOVES THE WILL (SIX ARTICLES). We must now consider what moves
the will: and under this head there are six points of inquiry: ...
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Whether God Moves the Created Intellect Immediately?
... OF THE CHANGE OF CREATURES BY GOD (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether God moves the created
intellect immediately? ... Now God moves the created intellect in both ways. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether god moves the created.htm

Sells Out at Alexandria. Moves to Crittenden. Preaches There and ...
... CHAPTER XII. Sells Out at Alexandria. Moves to Crittenden. Preaches there and at
Williamstown. ... One-Man System. Moves to New Liberty. Visits Mount Byrd. ...
/.../chapter xii sells out at.htm

How one Creature Moves Another (Four Articles)
... HOW ONE CREATURE MOVES ANOTHER (FOUR ARTICLES). We next consider how one
creature moves another. This consideration will be threefold ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/how one creature moves another.htm

Whether one Angel Moves Another Angel's Will?
... HOW ONE CREATURE MOVES ANOTHER (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether one angel moves another
angel's will? ... Therefore one angel moves another angel's will. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether one angel moves another.htm

Showing How God Possesses and Moves the Soul Both in a Natural and ...
... THE SECOND BOOK CHAPTER XLIX. SHOWING HOW GOD POSSESSES AND MOVES THE SOUL
BOTH IN A NATURAL AND A SUPERNATURAL WAY. Now mark well ...
/.../john/the adornment of the spritual marriage/chapter xlix showing how god.htm

He Moves to Mt. Byrd. Debate with JW Fitch. Preaches at Madison ...
... PART I."AUTOBIOGRAPHY. CHAPTER XIV. He Moves to Mt. Byrd. Debate with JW Fitch. ... He
Moves to Mt. Byrd. Debate with JW Fitch. Preaches at Madison, Ind. ...
/.../chapter xiv he moves to.htm

God Moves in a Mysterious Way
... THE CHRISTIAN YEAR Sundays After Trinity: Faith 216. God moves in a mysterious way.
CM ... William Croft, 1708. William Cowper, 1774. God moves in a mysterious way. ...
/.../sundays after trinity faith 216.htm

Thesaurus
Moves (30 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Moves (30 Occurrences). Genesis 1:21 God created
the large sea creatures, and every living creature that ...
/m/moves.htm - 14k

Bird (65 Occurrences)
... Genesis 1:21 God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that
moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird ...
/b/bird.htm - 28k

Effectual (8 Occurrences)
... The Revised Version renders appropriately: "The supplication of a righteous man
availeth much in its working", ie, "it moves the hand of Him who moves the world ...
/e/effectual.htm - 11k

Mover (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A person or thing that moves, stirs,
or changes place. 2. (n.) A person or thing that imparts ...
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Move (113 Occurrences)
... place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push
from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel ...
/m/move.htm - 38k

Creeping (43 Occurrences)
... Genesis 8:19 Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves
on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship. ...
/c/creeping.htm - 21k

Moveth (18 Occurrences)

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Sin (782 Occurrences)
... The fruit of the tree is pleasant to look upon; it is good to eat; it is to be desired
to make one wise; moreover, the tempter moves upon the woman by the ...
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Redeemer (42 Occurrences)
... not minimize the force of the Scriptural idea that God is the Deliverer from all
misfortune to which man falls heir, but the Scriptural emphasis moves more and ...
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Redemption (46 Occurrences)
... not minimize the force of the Scriptural idea that God is the Deliverer from all
misfortune to which man falls heir, but the Scriptural emphasis moves more and ...
/r/redemption.htm - 48k

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Moves (30 Occurrences)

Genesis 1:21
God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.
(WEB DBY NAS RSV)

Genesis 1:28
God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 1:30
And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.
(See NAS)

Genesis 6:20
Of the birds after their kind, of the livestock after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
(See NIV)

Genesis 7:14
they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.
(See NIV)

Genesis 8:19
Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.
(WEB DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 9:2
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
(See NIV)

Exodus 25:2
"Speak to the children of Israel, that they take an offering for me. From everyone whose heart makes him willing you shall take my offering.
(See NAS)

Leviticus 11:41
"'Every creeping thing that creeps on the earth is an abomination. It shall not be eaten.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 11:42
Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 11:44
For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy: neither shall you defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
(WEB NIV)

Leviticus 11:46
"'This is the law of the animal, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moves in the waters, and of every creature that creeps on the earth,
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 20:25
"'You shall therefore make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and you shall not make yourselves abominable by animal, or by bird, or by anything with which the ground teems, which I have separated from you as unclean for you.
(See NIV)

Numbers 4:5
When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it,
(WEB)

Numbers 4:15
"When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to carry it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the Tent of Meeting.
(WEB)

Deuteronomy 4:18
the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
(See NIV)

Deuteronomy 18:6
And if a Levite, moved by a strong desire, comes from any town in all Israel where he is living to the place marked out by the Lord;
(See NIV)

Deuteronomy 27:17
'Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' All the people shall say,'Amen.'
(Root in WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Job 9:11
Behold, he goes by me, and I don't see him. He passes on also, but I don't perceive him.
(See RSV)

Job 14:18
And surely the mountain falling crumbleth away, and the rock is removed out of its place;
(See NAS)

Job 40:17
He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.
(WEB)

Psalms 50:11
I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
(See NAS RSV)

Psalms 58:8
Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
(See NIV)

Psalms 69:34
Let heaven and earth praise him; the seas, and everything that moves therein!
(WEB NAS RSV)

Psalms 80:13
The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, that which moveth in the field feedeth on it.
(See NAS)

Psalms 102:14
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 41:3
He goes after them safely, not touching the road with his feet.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 46:22
The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
(See NAS)

Ezekiel 38:20
So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth.
(See NIV)

Habakkuk 1:9
All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.
(See NAS)

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