22 occurrences in 10 translations

'Nearest' in the Bible

If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each person will eat.

Verse ConceptsSmallnessEating Before GodAccording To PeopleFew PeopleNeighbours

Every board is to be joined to the one nearest to it by two tongues, and so for every board in the House.

Verse ConceptsTwo Parts Of ConstructionsTenons And Bars

Then make two gold rings and put them on the lower ends of the bag, at the edge of it on the inner side nearest to the ephod.

Verse ConceptsGold Items For The Tabernacl

And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two lower ends of the bag, on the inner side nearest to the ephod.

Verse ConceptsTwo Ornaments

except for his relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother,

Verse ConceptsHonouring Parents

If your brother becomes destitute and sells part of his property, his nearest relative may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of Possessionsethics, socialPoverty, Remedies ForRedemption, In Everyday Life

And nearest to him will be the tribe of Issachar, with Nethanel, the son of Zuar, as their chief.

And nearest to him, the tribe of Simeon, with Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, as their chief.

Nearest to him will be the tribe of Asher, with Pagiel, the son of Ochran, as their chief.

Then it came about in the morning that Balak took Balaam and brought him up to the high places of Baal; from there he saw a portion of the Israelites.

Verse ConceptsBalaams DonkeyBaal Worship, HistorySeeing People

Balak said to him, “Come with me, I implore you, to another place from where you can see them, although you will see only the nearest and not all of them; and curse them for me from there.”

Verse ConceptsSubdivisionsCursing Israel

If his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative of his clan, and he will take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites as the Lord commanded Moses.”

The elders of the city nearest to the victim are to get a young cow that has not been yoked or used for work.

Verse ConceptsTownYokesHeifersUnused

All the elders of the city nearest to the victim will wash their hands by the stream over the young cow whose neck has been broken.

Verse ConceptsDislocating

For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessPeace, Human Destruction OfPersecution, Forms OfSympathyWaitingWatchfulness, Of BelieversWatching To EntrapDefamationDeceiving OneselfFear Will ComeFriends FailingMan AvengingUnder One's BreathRevengeterrorism

See, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your father's brother, will come to you and say, Give the price and get for yourself my property in Anathoth: for you have the right of the nearest relation.

Verse ConceptsRelationships And Dating

So Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, came to me, as the Lord had said, to the place of the armed watchmen, and said to me, Give the price and get my property which is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: for you have the nearest relation's right to the heritage; so get it for yourself. Then it was clear to me that this was the word of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsNegotiationRedemption, In Everyday Life

See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon's captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep into the wet earth, and they are turned away back from you.

Verse ConceptsMarshesMen DeceivingFriends Failing

The covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; and there were palm-trees on the uprights: and there were eight steps going up to it.

Verse ConceptsEight ThingsPillars For Ezekiel's TempleStepsPlans For A New Temple

And the covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it.

Verse ConceptsEight ThingsPillars For Ezekiel's TempleSteps

Its uprights were on the side nearest to the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it.

Verse ConceptsEight ThingsPillars For Ezekiel's TempleSteps

And he said to them, Let us go to other parts into the nearest towns, so that I may give teaching there, because for this purpose I came.

Verse ConceptsGoalsHeraldPreaching, Importance OfChrist PreachingWhy God Did Things

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