'Intimate' in the Bible
and they called out to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we may know them [intimately].”
"If your brother, the son of your mother or your son or your daughter {or your wife whom you embrace} or {your intimate friend} in secrecy {says}, 'Let us go and let us serve other gods!' [gods] that you and your ancestors have not known,
and accuses her of shameful conduct, and gives her a bad name, saying, ‘I married this woman and was intimate with her, but I didn’t find any evidence of her virginity,’
At the end of two months, she returned to her father, and he kept the vow he had made about her. And she had never been intimate with a man. Now it became a custom in Israel
Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he was intimate with her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.
The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to bow in worship before the Lord. Afterward, they returned home to Ramah. Then Elkanah was intimate with his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her.
When David came to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the 10 concubines he had left to take care of the palace and placed them under guard. He provided for them, but he was not intimate with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.
The girl was of unsurpassed beauty, and she became the king’s caregiver. She served him, but he was not intimate with her.
“My relatives have failed,And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.
just as I was in my most productive time, when God's intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,
The intimate counsel of the LORD is for those who fear him so they may know his covenant.
But it was thou, a man mine equal, mine intimate, my familiar friend. ...
For the devious are an abomination to the Lord;But He is intimate with the upright.
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”And call understanding your intimate friend;
A perverse man spreads strife,And a slanderer separates intimate friends.
He who conceals a transgression seeks love,But he who repeats a matter separates intimate friends.
I was then intimate with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The Lord said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz,