'Nearer' in the Bible
And it came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel; and there was a dark cloud between them, and they went on through the night; but the one army came no nearer to the other all the night.
But let there be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits: come no nearer to it, so that you may see the way you have to go, for you have not been over this way before.
Now it is true that I am a near relation: but there is a relation nearer than I.
And the Philistine came nearer to David; and the man who had his body-cover went before him.
There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.
And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,
See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.