'Off' in the Bible

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Oliveyard, which is near Jerusalem, about a mile off.

For to you belongs the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, whoever the Lord our God may call."

"'Take off your shoes,' said the Lord, 'for the spot on which you are standing is holy ground.

dragged him out of the city, and stoned him, the witnesses throwing off their outer garments and giving them into the care of a young man called Saul.

But Saul cruelly harassed the Church. He went into house after house, and, dragging off both men and women, threw them into prison.

and his hearers were all amazed, and began to ask one another, "Is not this the man who in Jerusalem tried to exterminate those who called upon that Name, and came here on purpose to carry them off in chains to the High Priests?"

Suddenly an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell; and, striking Peter on the side, he woke him and said, "Rise quickly." Instantly the chains dropped off his wrists.

Then, throwing off all reserve, Paul and Barnabas said, "We were bound to proclaim God's Message to you first. But since you spurn it and judge yourselves to be unworthy of the Life of the Ages--well, we turn to the Gentiles.

But they shook off the dust from their feet as a protest against them and came to Iconium;

But when her owners saw that their hopes of gain were gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them off to the magistrates in the public square.

when suddenly there was such a violent shock of earthquake that the prison shook to its foundations. Instantly the doors all flew open, and the chains fell off from every prisoner.

Sailing from there, we arrived the next day off Chios. On the next we touched at Samos; and on the day following reached Miletus.

When, however, our time was up, we left and went on our way, all the disciples and their wives and children coming to see us off. Then, after kneeling down on the beach and praying,

And now why delay? Rise, get yourself baptized, and wash off your sins, calling upon His name.'

and, sailing the whole length of the sea that lies off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we reached Myra in Lycia.

It took several days of slow sailing for us to come with difficulty off Cnidus; from which point, as the wind did not allow us to get on in the direct course, we ran under the lee of Crete by Salmone.

Then the soldiers cut the ropes of the ship's boat and let her fall off.

He, however, shook the reptile off into the fire and was unhurt.