Toward

Usually translated “into”, “to” and “for”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• into 590
• to 563
• for 184
• in 160
• unto 69
• toward 44
• on 29
• at 21

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Acts 260
• Luke 203
• Matthew 201
• John 163
• Mark 135
• Romans 93

27 books in all.

• Outside (chuts)
• Riblah (rivlah)
• Beer (beer)
• Zedad (tsedad)

• 2 Thessalonians 1:5In contextWhich is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:
• 2 Thessalonians 1:11In contextWherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
• 2 Thessalonians 2:2In contextThat ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:4In contextWho opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:6In contextAnd now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
• 2 Thessalonians 2:10In contextAnd with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “into” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.