'Approached' in the Bible

As he approached Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.

Abraham approached and asked, "Will you actually destroy the righteous along with the wicked?

Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, “Lord, would You destroy a nation even though it is innocent?

As evening approached, he had the camels kneel outside the town at the water well, right about the time when women customarily went out to draw water.

Before he had finished speaking, Rebekah appeared. She was a daughter of Milcah's son Bethuel. (Milcah was the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor.) She approached the well, carrying a jug on her shoulder.

So Jacob approached his father, who felt him and said, "It's Jacob's voice, but Esau's hands."

When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, accompanied by Laban's sheep, Jacob approached the well, rolled the stone from the opening of the well, and then watered his mother's brother Laban's flock.

He himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times until he approached his brother.

Then the female slaves and their children approached him and bowed down.

Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.

So on the way, he turned aside, approached her, and said, "Come on! Let's have some sex!" But he didn't realize that he was talking to his own daughter-in-law. "What will you give me," she asked, "in order to have sex with me?"

So they approached Joseph’s steward and spoke to him at the doorway of the house.

But Judah approached him and said, “Sir, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh.

As the time approached for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and addressed him. "Please," he asked, "if you're happy with me, make a solemn promise that you'll treat me fairly and kindly by not burying me in Egypt.

But you're as undisciplined as a roaring river, so eventually you won't succeed, because you got in your father's bed, defiled it, and then approached my couch."