'Approaching' in the Bible

“But as the time of the promise was approaching which God had assured to Abraham, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt,

But when he was approaching the age of forty, it entered his mind to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel.

As he was traveling, it happened that he was approaching Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him;

On the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.

“But it happened that as I was on my way, approaching Damascus about noontime, a very bright light suddenly flashed from heaven all around me,

But when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to surmise that they were approaching some land.