'Surrounding' in the Bible

And for the side-chambers there was an enlarging, and it went round about the house increasing upward; for the surrounding of the house increased upward round about the house; therefore the house had width upward, and so ascended from the lower story to the upper, by the middle one.

And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee; and a rumour went out into the whole surrounding country about him;

And this report went out in all Judaea concerning him, and in all the surrounding country.

And all the multitude of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were possessed with great fear; and he, entering into the ship, returned.

they, being aware of it, fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding country,

Now in the country surrounding that place were the lands belonging to the chief man of the island, by name Publius, who received us and gave us hospitality three days in a very friendly way.

Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,