20 occurrences in 8 translations

'Closest' in the Bible

If a household is too small for a lamb, then it and its closest neighbor are to obtain one based on the number of individuals dividing the lamb based on what each person can eat.

except for his direct relative closest to him: his mother and his father, and his son and his daughter, and his brother,

and for his sister, a virgin, [who is] closest to him, {who has not had a husband}--for her he may defile himself.

“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and worship other gods’—which neither you nor your fathers have known,

You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent of your land that the Lord your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.

Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed of the Lord who has not withdrawn his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Again Naomi said to her, “The man is our relative, he is one of our closest relatives.”

Then he said to the closest relative, “Naomi, who has come back from the land of Moab, has to sell the piece of land which belonged to our brother Elimelech.

The closest relative said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, because I would jeopardize my own inheritance. Redeem it for yourself; you may have my right of redemption, for I cannot redeem it.”

So the closest relative said to Boaz, “Buy it for yourself.” And he removed his sandal.

His closest advisors at the palace got up, remained with him, and tried to help him get up from the ground, but he would not do so. He also wouldn't eat with them.

But Absalom asked Hushai, "So this is how you demonstrate your loyalty to your closest friends? Why didn't you leave with your friend?"

(His closest advisors were: Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven officials of Persia and Media who had direct access to the king and who held the highest rank in the kingdom.)

If I call out to the pit (grave), ‘You are my father’;And to the worm [that feeds on decay], ‘You are my mother and my sister [because I will soon be closest to you],’

Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and then it was well with him?

Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, will come to you soon. He will say to you, "Buy my field at Anathoth because you are entitled as my closest relative to buy it."'

Now it happened just as the Lord had said! My cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guardhouse. He said to me, 'Buy my field which is at Anathoth in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. Buy it for yourself since you are entitled as my closest relative to take possession of it for yourself.' When this happened, I recognized that the Lord had indeed spoken to me.

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
אצל 
'etsel 
by , beside , by ... , near , at , with ... , from ... , against , close , to , toward , unto , with
Usage: 61

גּדר 
Gadar 
Usage: 10

דּבק 
Dabaq 
Usage: 54

זוּר 
Zuwr 
Usage: 4

כּסה 
Kacah 
Usage: 152

מסגּרת 
Micgereth 
Usage: 17

סגר 
Cagar 
Usage: 93

שׂתם סתם 
Catham 
stop , shut up , hidden , shut out , secret , close up
Usage: 14

סתר 
Cathar 
Usage: 81

עצם 
`atsam 
Usage: 20

תּחרה 
Tacharah 
Usage: 2

ἆσσον 
Asson 
Usage: 1

καμμύω 
Kammuo 
Usage: 1

πτύσσω 
Ptusso 
Usage: 1

σιγάω 
Sigao 
Usage: 9

ταμεῖον 
Tameion 
Usage: 0

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