'Approached' in the Bible

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

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.

Then he went out to meet Esau, passing in front of all of them, and bowed low to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

"The children, whom God has graciously given your servant," he answered. Then the women servants approached, accompanied by their children, and bowed low.

Leah also approached, and she and her children bowed low. After this, Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed low.

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 palace manager and talked with him at the palace entrance.

But Judah approached him and begged him, "Your Excellency, please allow your servant to speak to you privately. Please don't be angry with your servant, since you are equal to 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."