'Encounter' in the Bible

Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

But some members of the so-called 'Synagogue of the Freed-men,' together with some Cyrenaeans, Alexandrians, Cilicians and men from Roman Asia, were roused to encounter Stephen in debate.

“And now I am on my way to Jerusalem, bound in my spirit, not knowing what I will encounter there,

As it is written, "For your sake we encounter death all day long; we were considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,