25 occurrences in 11 translations

'Around' in the Bible

March around the city with all the men of war, circling the city one time. Do this for six days.

Verse ConceptsSix DaysOrder Of MarchFalling

Have seven priests carry seven ram’s-horn trumpets in front of the ark. But on the seventh day, march around the city seven times, while the priests blow the trumpets.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalHornsPriests, Function In Ot TimesRamsSevenSeven PeopleSeven ThingsSeven TimesThe Ark Moved AroundTrumpets For BattleSeven TrumpetsFalling

He said to the people, “Move forward, march around the city, and have the armed troops go ahead of the ark of the Lord.”

Verse ConceptsFallingMoving OnSpiritual Warfare

So the ark of the Lord was carried around the city, circling it once. They returned to the camp and spent the night there.

Verse ConceptsCirclesThe Ark Moved AroundFalling

On the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.

Verse ConceptsSix DaysFalling

Early on the seventh day, they started at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same way. That was the only day they marched around the city seven times.

Verse ConceptsDawnRising EarlySeven TimesThe Seventh Day Of The WeekAt DaybreakThose Who Rose EarlyDay 7Falling

The seventh time around, the priests blew the rams' horns and Joshua told the army, "Give the battle cry, for the Lord is handing the city over to you!

Verse ConceptsBattle CriesTrumpets For BattleThose God Gave Into Their Hands

Do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, but take its spoil and its livestock as war booty for yourselves. Set an ambush around the city."

Verse ConceptsCattle

telling them, "Pay attention now! You are to set up an ambush around the city. Don't go very far from the city, and all of you remain on alert.

Verse ConceptsPeople Not Far Away

Then the men of Ai looked back behind them and all of a sudden! smoke from the city was rising into the sky. They were unable to run in any direction, because the Israelis who had fled toward the wilderness had turned around to attack their pursuers.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesConflagrations

When Joshua and the entire fighting force of Israel observed that the men who had been in ambush had seized the city and that the smoke from the city was rising, they turned around and attacked the men of Ai.

The border went around west from Baalah to Mount Seir, and passed along to the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh and then continued on through Timnah.

The border continues to the slope of Ekron to the north, [then] bends around to Shikkeron, it passes [on] to Mount Baalah and continues [to] Jabneel; and {the border ends} at the sea.

Now the western border was the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.This was the boundary of the descendants of Judah around their clans.

Verse ConceptsMediterranean SeaWestern Borders

The border extended, and turned around on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and ended at Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah. This was the west quarter.

Verse ConceptsWestern Borders

The Jordan River formed its boundary on the east. This is the inheritance for the tribe of Benjamin according to its families, boundary by boundary around the entire territory.

Verse ConceptsEastern Borders

and all the villages which were around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of the Negev. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families.

From there, it went east toward the sunrise to Gath-hepher and to Eth-kazin; it extended to Rimmon, curving around to Neah.

The border then circled around Neah on the north to Hannathon and ended at the Valley of Iphtah-el,

The Israelites gave these cities with their pasturelands around them to the Levites by lot, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.

They gave them Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill country of Judah, with its suburbs around it.

Each of these cities had grazing areas around it; they were alike in this regard.

The LORD gave them peace all around them, just as he had promised their ancestors. Not one of their enemies was able to oppose them the LORD placed all of their enemies under their control.

Verse ConceptsInvincibilityThose God Gave Into Their HandsTime Of PeaceRest

Now the Lord your God has made your fellow Israelites secure, just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes in your own land which Moses the Lord's servant assigned to you east of the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsRest, EternalBeyond JordanTime Of Peace

A long time after the Lord had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, Joshua was old, getting on in years.

Verse ConceptsTime Of Peace

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Root Form
Definition
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περιτίθημι 
Peritithemi 
Usage: 6

περίχωρος 
Perichoros 
Usage: 10

φραγμός 
Phragmos 
Usage: 1

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