232 occurrences in 10 translations

'Surrounding' in the Bible

the name of the one is Pison, it is that which is surrounding the whole land of the Havilah where the gold is,

Verse ConceptsThings Surrounding

and the name of the second river is Gibon, it is that which is surrounding the whole land of Cush;

Verse ConceptsAfricaThings Surrounding

So the field of Ephron which [was] in the Machpelah, which [was] near Mamre--the field and the cave which [was] in it, with all the trees that [were] in the field, which [were] within all its surrounding boundaries--{passed}

Verse ConceptsCaves For Burying

They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.

Verse ConceptsOwning LivestockSpoils Of WarLoss Of DonkeysPossessing Sheep

and they started on their journey. The surrounding cities were afraid of God, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

Verse ConceptsDivine Protection, Examples OfTerror Of Godterrorism

So he gathered all the food of these seven years which occurred in the land of Egypt and placed the food in the cities; he placed in every city the food from its own surrounding fields.

Verse ConceptsThriftGathering Food

the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said [they would]; the famine was in all the [surrounding] lands, but in the land of Egypt there was bread (food).

In addition, all of the surrounding nations came to Joseph to buy grain from Egypt, because the famine had become severe throughout the world.

Verse ConceptsBuying and sellingMoney, Uses Of

You are to overlay it with pure gold -- both inside and outside you must overlay it, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold over it.

Verse ConceptsGoldsmithsInside And OutOverlaid With GoldEdge Of Other Things

You are to overlay it with pure gold, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for it.

Verse ConceptsOverlaid With GoldEdge Of Other Things

You are to make a surrounding frame for it about three inches broad, and you are to make a surrounding border of gold for its frame.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearBreadthGold Items For The TabernaclEdge Of Other Things

You are to overlay it with pure gold -- its top, its four walls, and its horns -- and make a surrounding border of gold for it.

Verse ConceptsAltar Of IncenseOverlaid With GoldGold Items For The TabernaclEdge Of Other Things

He overlaid it with pure gold, inside and out, and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

Verse ConceptsInside And OutOverlaid With GoldEdge Of Other Things

He overlaid it with pure gold, and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

Verse ConceptsOverlaid With GoldEdge Of Other Things

He made a surrounding frame for it about three inches wide, and he made a surrounding border of gold for its frame.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearGold Items For The TabernaclEdge Of Other Things

He overlaid it with pure gold -- its top, its four walls, and its horns -- and he made a surrounding border of gold for it.

Verse ConceptsAltar Of IncenseOverlaid With GoldGold Items For The TabernaclEdge Of Other Things

All the tent pegs for the tabernacle and for the surrounding courtyard were bronze.

Verse ConceptsTentsPegsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

the bases for the surrounding courtyard, the bases for the gate of the courtyard, all the tent pegs for the tabernacle, and all the tent pegs for the surrounding courtyard.

Verse ConceptsPegsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

Assemble the surrounding courtyard and hang the screen for the gate of the courtyard.

Verse ConceptsGates Of The Temple

Next Moses set up the surrounding courtyard for the tabernacle and the altar and hung a screen for the gate of the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.

Verse ConceptsGates Of The Temple

He will present part of the fellowship sacrifice as a fire offering to the Lord: the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat that is on the entrails,

Verse ConceptsFat Of The SacrificesPeace offerings

He will then present part of the fellowship sacrifice as a fire offering to the Lord consisting of its fat and the entire fat tail, which he is to remove close to the backbone. He will also remove the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat on the entrails,

Verse ConceptsTailsPeace offerings

He will present part of his offering as a fire offering to the Lord: the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat that is on the entrails,

He is to remove all the fat from the bull of the sin offering: the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat that is on the entrails,

Verse ConceptsFat Of The Sacrifices

the two kidneys with the fat on them by the loins, and the fatty mass surrounding the liver and kidneys

Verse ConceptsResidueTwo Of Body Parts

The offerer must present all the fat from it: the fat tail, the fat surrounding the entrails,

Verse ConceptsTailsFat Of The Sacrifices

They also brought the fat portions from the ox and the ram—the fat tail, the fat surrounding the entrails, the kidneys, and the fatty lobe of the liver—

Verse ConceptsTailsResidueFat Of The Sacrifices

The houses of the villages, however, which have no surrounding wall shall be considered as open fields; they have redemption rights and revert in the jubilee.

Verse ConceptsVillagesThe CountrysideReversion Of Things

"Every single Israeli is to encamp beneath his standard with the emblem of his ancestral house. The Israelis are to encamp in front of and surrounding the Tent of Meeting."

Verse ConceptsBanners, Literal UseWeights And Measures, DistancesFlags

in addition to the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes.

Verse ConceptsPegs

the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes, including all their equipment and all the work related to them. You are to assign by name the items that they are responsible to carry.

Verse ConceptsTentsPegs

So Moses gave them—the Gadites, Reubenites, and half the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph—the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land including its cities with the territories surrounding them.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityFractions, One HalfReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

"Instruct the Israelis to set aside a portion of their inheritance for the descendants of Levi to live in, along with grazing land surrounding their towns.

The total number of towns that you are to give to the descendants of Levi is to be 48 towns, including grazing lands surrounding these towns.

Verse ConceptsForties

You must not go after other gods, those of the surrounding peoples,

Verse ConceptsMonotheismDifferent GodsDo Not Have Other gods

the gods of the surrounding people (whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other).

When you come to the land the Lord your God is giving you and take it over and live in it and then say, "I will select a king like all the nations surrounding me,"

Verse ConceptsLike The Nations

Therefore it shall come about when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your surrounding enemies, in the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.

Verse ConceptsBlottingBlotted OutTime Of Peace

They captured it and put the sword to its king, all its surrounding cities, and all who lived in it; they left no survivors. As they had done at Eglon, they annihilated it and all who lived there.

Verse ConceptsVillagesAnnihilationNo SurvivorsExtermination

They captured it, its king, and all its surrounding cities and put the sword to them. They annihilated everyone who lived there; they left no survivors. They did to Debir and its king what they had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron.

Verse ConceptsAnnihilationConquestNo SurvivorsExtermination

Heshbon and all its surrounding cities on the plain, including Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,

And [the] western border [is] to the Great Sea and its coast. This [is] the border surrounding the descendants of Judah according to their families.

Verse ConceptsMediterranean SeaWestern Borders

Ekron and its surrounding towns and settlements;

Ashdod with its surrounding towns and settlements, and Gaza with its surrounding towns and settlements, as far as the Stream of Egypt and the border at the Mediterranean Sea.

Within Issachar's and Asher's territory Manasseh was assigned Beth Shean, Ibleam, the residents of Dor, En Dor, the residents of Taanach, the residents of Megiddo, the three of Napheth, and the towns surrounding all these cities.

Verse ConceptsMegiddo

The descendants of Joseph said, "The whole hill country is inadequate for us, and the Canaanites living down in the valley in Beth Shean and its surrounding towns and in the Valley of Jezreel have chariots with iron-rimmed wheels."

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahChariotsValleysIron ObjectsShortage Other Than Food

The Jordan formed the border on the east side.This was the inheritance of Benjamin’s descendants, by their clans, according to its surrounding borders.

Verse ConceptsEastern Borders

and all the villages surrounding these cities as far as Baalath-beer (Ramah of the south).This was the inheritance of the tribe of Simeon’s descendants by their clans.

They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) with its surrounding pasturelands in the hill country of Judah. Arba was the father of Anak.

But the fields adjoining the city and its surrounding villages were given to Jephunneh's son Caleb.

Each of these cities had its own surrounding pasturelands; this was true for all the cities.

Many years later, after the LORD had given peace between Israel and all its surrounding enemies, and after Joshua had become very old,

Verse ConceptsTime Of Peace

The men of Judah captured Gaza, Ashkelon, Ekron, and the territory surrounding each of these cities.

The men of Manasseh did not conquer Beth Shan, Taanach, or their surrounding towns. Nor did they conquer the people living in Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo or their surrounding towns. The Canaanites managed to remain in those areas.

and abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of Egypt. They went after other gods from the surrounding peoples and bowed down to them. They infuriated the Lord,

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentRenunciationBowing To False GodsDifferent GodsGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

They stood up, each soldier in his assigned place surrounding the encampment, and the entire army ran away, sounding the alarm to retreat.

Verse ConceptsPeoples Who Fledarmy

When Israel was living in Heshbon and its surrounding villages, in Aroer and its surrounding villages, and in all the cities that line the banks of the Arnon River these past three hundred years, why didn't you retake them during that time?

Verse Concepts100 Years And MoreArnon

They retreated before the Israelites, taking the road to the wilderness. But the battle overtook them as men from the surrounding cities struck them down.

Verse ConceptsTurning One's Back

The Lord attacked the residents of Ashdod severely, bringing devastation on them. He struck the people of both Ashdod and the surrounding area with sores.

Verse ConceptsDiseases, Kinds OfAnger Of God, Examples OfSwellingcancer

The cities from Ekron to Gath, which they had taken from Israel, were restored; Israel even rescued their surrounding territories from Philistine control. There was also peace between Israel and the Amorites.

Verse ConceptsAmoritesCities In IsraelRestoring ThingsTime Of Peace

The Hebrews who had previously been with the Philistines, who had gone up with them from the surrounding areas to the camp, even they joined Israel and those who were with Saul and Jonathan.

Verse ConceptsTurning Against Menreinforcement

Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain; and David was hurrying to get away from Saul, for Saul and his men were surrounding David and his men to seize them.

Verse ConceptsOpposite SidesHasty Action

They cut off Saul's head and stripped him of his armor. They sent messengers to announce the news in the temple of their idols and among their people throughout the surrounding land of the Philistines.

Verse ConceptsBeheadingPeople Stripping PeoplePeople Stripping OffSkullsGood News

After the king had settled down in his palace and the LORD had given him respite from all of his surrounding enemies,

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftSabbath, In OtRoyal HousesTime Of Peace

Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying Pharaoh’s daughter. Solomon brought her to live in the city of David until he finished building his palace, the Lord’s temple, and the wall surrounding Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersFortificationsAliancesCityBuildingJerusalem, History OfKingsPolygamySolomon, Character OfSolomon, Life OfWallsBuilding Jerusalem's WallBuilding Relationships

for he had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates from Tiphsah to Gaza and over all the kings west of the Euphrates. He had peace on all his surrounding borders.

Verse ConceptsWestWest SidesTime Of Peacebridgesdominion

He was wiser than anyone—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, sons of Mahol. His reputation extended to all the surrounding nations.

Verse ConceptsFame

His reputation was known throughout the surrounding nations. Solomon wrote 3,000 proverbs and 1,005 songs.

Verse ConceptsSolomon, Character OfThousandsThree Thousand And UpWriting SongsComposersWise Proverbs

He carved all the surrounding temple walls with carved engravings—cherubim, palm trees and flower blossoms—in both the inner and outer sanctuaries.

Verse ConceptsFlowersCarvings Of FlowersSculptureCherubim, As DecorationsCherubim Depicted

So the great court was surrounded by three rows of cut stone, along with a row of cedar beams, just like the inner court of the LORD's Temple and the porch surrounding the Temple.

Verse ConceptsCourtyardCedarWallsCedar WoodThree Parts Of Constructions

Under its brim gourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the rest.

Verse ConceptsSculptureThings SurroundingTwo Plant Products

The opening to each water cart inside the crown on top was one cubit wide, with engravings on the opening. The borders to the frames surrounding the opening were square, not round.

Verse ConceptsengravingdepthArtSquaresDimensions Of Temple Furniture

They destroyed their cities, and all of them threw stones onto every piece of farm land, ruining the fields. Then they filled in all the water wells and chopped down all of the useful trees. Stone walls remained surrounding Kir-hareseth only, until the archers surrounded and attacked that city.

Verse ConceptsSlingsFelling TreesCities Under AttackThrowing StonesPeople Drying Things UpHarming Treescrusades

He told her, "Go out to all of your neighbors in the surrounding streets and borrow lots of pots from them. Don't get just a few empty vessels, either.

Verse ConceptsBorrowing, Examples OfDebtpotdrums

When the servant of the man of God got up early and went out, he discovered an army with horses and chariots surrounding the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do?”

Verse ConceptsMorningEnemies SurroundingAttacking With ChariotsThose Who Rose EarlyEarthly Armiesservanthoodarmy

Then Elisha prayed, asking the LORD, "Please make him able to really see!" And so when the LORD enabled the young man to see, he looked, and there was the mountain, filled with horses and fiery chariots surrounding Elisha!

Verse ConceptsFireSpiritual Blindness, Removal OfChariotsGuardiansHorsesVisionArmies, GodDivine Protection, Examples OfHeavenly ChariotsReceiving SightAngelic GuardianshipEyesarmyreassurance

so the king got up in the middle of the night and ordered his servants: "Let me explain what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we're hungry, so they've left their encampment to conceal themselves in the surrounding fields. They're telling themselves, "When they come out of the city, we'll capture them alive and enter the city!'"

Verse ConceptsHiding From PeopleDuring One Night

guarding the king and surrounding him with weapons in hand. Whoever comes within range is to be killed. Stay with the king wherever he goes, coming or going."

Verse ConceptsWeaponsFriends SurroundingApproval To KillGoing Out And Coming In

Then the guards stood with their weapons in hand surrounding the king—from the right side of the temple to the left side, by the altar and by the temple.

Verse ConceptsWeapons

At that time Menahem came from Tirzah and attacked Tiphsah. He struck down all who lived in the city and the surrounding territory, because they would not surrender. He even ripped open the pregnant women.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofPregnancyGashing BodiesHarming Pregnant Women

They rejected His statutes and His covenant He had made with their ancestors and the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, following the surrounding nations the Lord had commanded them not to imitate.

Verse ConceptsFutilityFalse ReligionConformityPrayerlessnessRejection Of GodImitating Wicked PeopleForsaking God's ThingsUseless EndeavourBreaking The Covenant

Then he did away with the idolatrous priests the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense at the high places in the cities of Judah and in the areas surrounding Jerusalem. They had burned incense to Baal, and to the sun, moon, constellations, and the whole heavenly host.

Verse ConceptsConstellationsHigh PlacesMoonPriests, Institution In Ot TimesShrinesIncense Offered AmissIdolatrous Worship Of The Moon

The whole Chaldean army with the commander of the guards tore down the walls surrounding Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of JerusalemDestruction Of Jerusalem's Wall

(Geshur and Aram captured the towns of Jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding towns.) All these were descendants of Makir, the father of Gilead.

Verse ConceptsSixties

and all their surrounding villages as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record for themselves.

They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its villages, and in all the surrounding suburbs of Sharon as far as their borders.

Verse ConceptsVillages

They were given Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands,

They allotted these cities of refuge to the descendants of Aaron: Hebron, Libnah with its surrounding suburbs, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its surrounding suburbs,

Hilen with its surrounding suburbs, Debir with its surrounding suburbs,

Ashan with its surrounding suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its surrounding suburbs.

From the tribe of Benjamin were allotted Geba with its surrounding suburbs, Alemeth with its surrounding suburbs, and Anathoth with its surrounding suburbs. All their towns allotted to their families totaled thirteen.

Verse ConceptsThirteen

So the people of Israel gave the descendants of Levi the towns with their surrounding suburbs,

They were given these cities of refuge: Shechem with its surrounding suburbs in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its surrounding suburbs,

Verse ConceptsAsylum

Jokmeam with its surrounding suburbs, Beth-horon with its surrounding suburbs,

Aijalon with its surrounding suburbs, Gath-rimmon with its surrounding suburbs,

and (from of the half-tribe of Manasseh), Aner with its surrounding suburbs, and Bileam with its surrounding suburbs for the rest of the Kohathite families.

From the half-tribe of Manasseh the descendants of Gershom were allotted Golan in Bashan with its surrounding suburbs and Ashtaroth with its surrounding suburbs.

From the tribe of Issachar were allotted Kedesh with its surrounding suburbs, Daberath with its surrounding suburbs,

Ramoth with its surrounding suburbs, and Anem with its surrounding suburbs.

From of the tribe of Asher were allotted Mashal with its surrounding suburbs, Abdon with its surrounding suburbs,

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