'Around' in the Bible

Instead, appoint the descendants of Levi over the Tent of Meeting, all the vessels, and everything in it. They are to carry the tent and all the vessels in it. They are to attend to it and camp around it.

Then the Israelis are to encamp around the tent, arranged according to their company and the standard of their army.

the pillars around the courtyard, their sockets, pegs, and tent cords.

the pillars around the courtyard, their sockets, their pegs, their ropes, and all the utensils for all their services. Assign the utensils by name to each person whose responsibility it will be to carry them.

So Moses went out and told the people what the LORD had said. He gathered 70 men from the elders of the people and stationed them around the tent.

Just then, a wind burst forth from the LORD, who brought quails from the sea and spread them all around the camp, about a day's journey in each direction, completely encircling the camp about two cubits deep on top of the ground!

The people stayed up all that day, all that night, and all through the next day, gathering quails. The one who gathered least gathered enough to fill ten omers, as they spread out all around the camp.

Then all of the Israelis who were around them ran away when they heard them crying, ""so the ground won't swallow us up, too."

Every open vessel that has no covering fastened around it is to be considered unclean.

After this, they traveled from Mount Hor along the caravan route by way of the Sea of Reeds and went around the land of Edom. But when the people got impatient because it was a long route,

the Moabites told the elders of Midian, "This horde of people is about to lick up everything around us, like an ox licks up the green ground."