698 occurrences in 11 translations

'Around' in the Bible

The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Verse ConceptsThings Surrounding

The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush.

Verse ConceptsAfricaThings Surrounding

Lot looked around and noticed that the whole Jordan plain as far as Zoar was well-watered like the garden of the LORD or like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Verse ConceptsGarden Of Eden, TheHorticultureYielding To TemptationDestruction Of Cities

Is anything too difficult or too wonderful for the Lord? At the appointed time, when the season [for her delivery] comes, I will return to you and Sarah will have a son.”

Verse ConceptsAll Things Being PossibleGod, Power OfGod's OmnipotencePower, Of GodArriving On TimePossibilities For GodEasy For GodPossible For GodThe Time Appointedimpossible

Then Abraham looked up and glanced around, and behold, behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering (ascending sacrifice) instead of his son.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamHornsRamsSubstitutionNames Of GodHorns Of AnimalsVicarious Substitution

So Abraham secured Ephron's field in Machpelah, next to Mamre, including the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field and all around its border,

Verse ConceptsCaves For Burying

And she said to the servant, "Who [is] this man walking around in the field to meet us?" And the servant said, "That [is] my master." And she took her veil and covered herself.

Verse ConceptsCoveringVeilsMeeting PeopleWho Is This?The Brides Wedding Dress

Later on, the men of that place asked about his wife, so he replied, "She's my sister," because he was afraid to call her "my wife." He kept thinking, ""otherwise, the men around here will kill me on account of Rebekah, since she's very beautiful."

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitdoubtersAsking Particular QuestionsMisrepresentationOther WivesBeautiful Women

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of living because of the daughters of Heth [these insolent wives of Esau]. If Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

Verse ConceptsHope, Results Of Its AbsenceMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningWearinessWeariness Of Life

""Look around!' he said. "Go ahead, look! All the male goats have been mating with the flock, producing offspring that are streaked, speckled, and spotted, because I've been watching everything that Laban has done to you.

Verse ConceptsGod Seeing Their AfflictionBlemished CreaturesBlack And WhiteGod Sending His Son

Now that you have felt around in all my stuff, what have you found of all your household stuff? Set it here before my relatives and your relatives, that they may judge between us two.

Verse ConceptsNot FindingIn Men's Presence

When they set out, a terror from God came over the cities around them, and they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.

Verse ConceptsDivine Protection, Examples OfTerror Of Godterrorism

There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the field. Suddenly my sheaf stood up, and your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”

Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsBinding cornGrainJoining ThingsBowing Before JosephReapingPeople Getting Upvulnerability

When Joseph reached Shechem, a man found him wandering around in a field. So the man asked him, "What are you looking for?"

Verse ConceptsWandererswandering

After this, while they were seated, eating their food, they looked around and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead with camels carrying spices, balm, and myrrh for sale down in Egypt.

Verse ConceptsBalmsCaravansHerbs And SpicesMoney, Uses OfMyrrhPerfumeTradeTravelCamelsCommercePeople EatingSitting In Fellowship

So he returned to Judah, and said, “I cannot find her; also the local men said, ‘There was no prostitute around here.’”

Verse ConceptsNowhere To Be Found

As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand, and the midwife took it and tied a scarlet thread around it, announcing, “This one came out first.”

Verse ConceptsCrimsonBeing FirstMidwifeStretching OutFirstborn SonsCordsRed Cordsstories

Afterwards, his brother came out, and around his hand was the scarlet. So they named him Zerah.

Verse ConceptsCordsRed Cords

She kept on talking to him like this day after day, but he wouldn't listen to her. Not only would he refuse to have sex with her, he refused even to stay around her.

Verse ConceptsImportunity, Towards PeopleAbsence Of SexNot With PeopleSaying Repeatedly

Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, clothed him with fine linen garments, and placed a gold chain around his neck.

Verse ConceptsFingersNecksequipping, physicalClothingChainsGoldLinenOrnamentsRingsRobesSeals

Joseph gathered all the excess food in the land of Egypt during the seven years and put it in the cities. He put the food in every city from the fields around it.

Verse ConceptsThriftGathering Food

He turned away from them and wept. When he turned around and spoke to them again, he had Simeon taken from them and tied up before their eyes.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfUnhappinessTying Up

Then Joseph threw his arms around Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his shoulder.

Verse ConceptsNecksSalutations

Joseph hitched the horses to his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, threw his arms around him, and wept for a long time.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingChariotsGreetingsLove, And The WorldChildren, Good KidsChildren, Good Examples OfMeeting PeopleAction For A Long TimePreparing To Travel

Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather around, and I will tell you what will happen to you in the days to come.

Verse ConceptsPredicting The FutureOthers SummoningTogetherness

Looking all around and seeing no one, he struck the Egyptian dead and hid him in the sand.

Verse ConceptsSandInadequate BurialsUnseenLooking And SeeingSand And Gravel

Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and didn’t even take this to heart.

Verse ConceptsIndividuals going home

All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink because they could not drink the water from the river.

Verse ConceptsExcavationDrinking WaterUnable To Do Other Things

You must care for it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community of Israel will kill it around sundown.

Verse ConceptsPassover lambThe Number FourteenTwilightKilling Sacrifices

So He led the people around toward the Red Sea along the road of the wilderness. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt in battle formation.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalComing To The Red SeaGod Led Them Through The WildernessEarthly Armies

Pharaoh will say of the Israelites: They are wandering around the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.

Verse ConceptsBewildermentShutting Doorswandering

So at evening quail came and covered the camp. In the morning there was a layer of dew all around the camp.

Verse ConceptsdewQuailBirds, Types Of BirdsCamp, Of Israel

The next day Moses sat down to judge the people, and they stood around Moses from morning until evening.

Verse ConceptsMoses, Significance OfSittingStandingSitting To TeachPeople Involved In JudgementFrom Morning Till Evening

When Moses’ father-in-law saw everything he was doing for them he asked, “What is this thing you’re doing for the people? Why are you alone sitting as judge, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”

Verse ConceptsActing AloneFrom Morning Till EveningWhat Do You Do?

Put boundaries for the people all around the mountain and say: Be careful that you don’t go up on the mountain or touch its base. Anyone who touches the mountain will be put to death.

Verse ConceptsBoundariesDeath As Punishmentborders

But Moses responded to the Lord, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, since You warned us: Put a boundary around the mountain and consider it holy.”

Verse ConceptsBoundariesHoliness, Believers' Growth InGoing Up Mountainslimitations

if he can later get up and walk around outside leaning on his staff, then the one who struck him will be exempt from punishment. Nevertheless, he must pay for his lost work time and provide for his complete recovery.

Verse ConceptsInjuryLossHabitual Getting UpUnpunishedWalking With A StaffRecovery

Overlay it with pure gold; overlay it both inside and out. Also make a gold molding all around it.

Verse ConceptsGoldsmithsInside And OutOverlaid With GoldEdge Of Other Things

Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding all around it.

Verse ConceptsOverlaid With GoldEdge Of Other Things

Make a three-inch frame all around it and make a gold molding for it all around its frame.

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

You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.

Verse ConceptsHalf Of Things

“All the posts around the courtyard are to be banded with silver and have silver hooks and bronze bases.

Verse ConceptsSilverBronze Items For The Tabernacle

There should be an opening at its top in the center of it. Around the opening, there should be a woven collar with an opening like that of body armor so that it does not tear.

Verse ConceptsJoining ThingsOther Openingsreinforcement

Make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn on its lower hem and all around it. Put gold bells between them all the way around,

Verse ConceptsBellsPomegranatesRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothGold Items For The TabernaclBlue Purple And Scarlet

so that gold bells and pomegranates alternate around the lower hem of the robe.

Tie the sashes on Aaron and his sons and fasten headbands on them. The priesthood is to be theirs by a permanent statute. This is the way you will ordain Aaron and his sons.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesPriesthood, In OtPriests, Institution In Ot TimesConsecrationPerpetual StatutesDressGod Appointing OthersTurban And Caps

Then you are to slaughter the ram, take its blood, and scatter it around the altar.

Verse ConceptsSacrifice On The Bronze AltarKilling Sacrifices

You are to slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on the lobe of Aaron's right ear, the lobe of his sons' right ears, the thumbs of their right hands, and the big toes of their right feet. Then you are to scatter the rest of the blood around the altar.

Verse ConceptsEarsThumbsToesOther Right Parts

The first lamb you are to prepare in the morning, and the second lamb you are to prepare around sundown.

Verse ConceptsMorning WorshipAnimals, Types OfTwilight

The second lamb you are to offer around sundown; you are to prepare for it the same meal offering as for the morning and the same drink offering, for a soothing aroma, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

Verse Conceptsdrink offeringTwilightRefreshing God

Overlay its top, all around its sides, and its horns with pure gold; make a gold molding all around it.

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

When Aaron sets up the lamps around sundown he is to burn incense on it; it is to be a regular incense offering before the Lord throughout your generations.

Verse ConceptsTwilight

When the people saw that Moses delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us a god who will go before us because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt—we don’t know what has happened to him!”

Verse ConceptsGoadsdoubt, results ofImpatienceMonotonyAaron, Sins OfAaron, CharacterGod Going BeforePeople Who DelayedBringing Israel Out Of EgyptOthers Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptWaiting For God's Timingcats

And Moses stood at the camp’s entrance and said, “Whoever is for the Lord, come to me.” And all the Levites gathered around him.

Verse ConceptsChoicesGood Decision Making ExamplesRankChoosingAssembling LeadersStanding In The Gateway

He overlaid it with pure gold inside and out and made a gold molding all around it.

Verse ConceptsInside And OutOverlaid With GoldEdge Of Other Things

He overlaid it with pure gold and made a gold molding all around it.

Verse ConceptsOverlaid With GoldEdge Of Other Things

He made a three-inch frame all around it and made a gold molding all around its frame.

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

He overlaid it, its top, all around its sides, and its horns with pure gold. Then he made a gold molding all around it.

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

He made for the altar a grating of a network of brass, under the ledge around it beneath, reaching halfway up.

Verse ConceptsHalf Of ThingsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

All the hangings around the courtyard were of finely spun linen.

Verse ConceptsLinen Items

All the pegs for the tent and for all around the court were made of bronze.

Verse ConceptsTentsPegsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

the sockets for all around the court, the sockets for the gate to the court, all the pegs for the sanctuary, and all the pegs for all around the court.

Verse ConceptsPegsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

There was an opening in the center of the robe like that of body armor with a collar around the opening so that it would not tear.

Verse ConceptsJoining ThingsOther Openingsreinforcement

They made pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and twisted linen around the hem of the robe.

Verse ConceptsPomegranatesRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothBlue Purple And Scarlet

They made bells of pure gold and attached the bells between the pomegranates, all around the hem of the robe between the pomegranates,

Verse ConceptsBellsGold Items For The Tabernacl

a bell and a pomegranate alternating all around the lower hem of the robe to be worn for ministry. They made it just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

You are to set up the court all around, and hang up the screen for the gate of the court.

Verse ConceptsGates Of The Temple

He set up the court all around the tent and the altar, and hung up the screen for the gate of the court. And so Moses finished the work.

Verse ConceptsGates Of The Temple

He shall slay the young bull before the Lord; and Aaron’s sons the priests shall offer up the blood and sprinkle the blood around on the altar that is at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesSprinklingSprinkling BloodSacrifices At The DoorwaySetting Up The Bronze AltarKilling Sacrifices

"Aaron's sons, the priests, are to bring the blood and sprinkle it around the altar that stands at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. He is to skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.

Verse ConceptsAnimals Cut In PiecesSkinning

and slaughter it at the north side of the altar in the LORD's presence. Then Aaron's sons, the priests, are to sprinkle its blood around the altar.

Verse ConceptsSprinkling BloodNorth Of The AltarKilling Sacrifices

Then the presenter is to lay his hand on the head of the offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. After this, Aaron's sons, the priests, are to sprinkle the blood on and around the altar.

Verse ConceptsFellowship OfferingSprinklingLaying On Of HandsSprinkling BloodHands On HeadsSacrifices At The DoorwayLaying Hands On SacrificesKilling Sacrifices

He is to lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Then Aaron's sons are to sprinkle the blood on and around the altar.

Verse ConceptsSprinkling BloodHands On HeadsLaying Hands On SacrificesKilling Sacrifices

lay his hand over its head, then slaughter it at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. After this, Aaron's sons are to sprinkle the blood on and around the altar.

Verse ConceptsSprinkling BloodHands On HeadsSacrifices At The DoorwayLaying Hands On SacrificesKilling Sacrifices

The guilt offering is to be offered in the same place where the burnt offering is slaughtered. The priest is to sprinkle some of its blood on the altar and around it.

Verse ConceptsSprinklingSprinkling BloodKilling SacrificesOther Right Parts

He put the tunic on Aaron, wrapped the sash around him, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him. He put the woven band of the ephod around him and fastened it to him.

Verse ConceptsephodsRobes

Then Moses presented Aaron’s sons, clothed them with tunics, wrapped sashes around them, and fastened headbands on them, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesPriests GarmentsTurban And Caps

So Moses slaughtered it, took the blood, and applied some of it at the horns of the altar and around it with his fingers, thus purifying the altar. Then he poured the blood at the base of the altar, thereby sanctifying it as a means to make atonement with it.

Verse ConceptsFingersHornsPouringClean ObjectsApplied With The FingerAtoning By SacrificesKilling Sacrifices

and Moses slaughtered it and poured its blood over and around the altar.

Verse ConceptsSprinkling BloodKilling Sacrifices

Then Moses brought Aaron's sons, took some of the ram's blood, put it on their right earlobes, on their right thumbs, and on their right great toes, and then poured the blood on the altar and all around it.

Verse ConceptsThumbsToesSprinkling BloodOther Right Parts

And so the burnt offering was slaughtered, and Aaron's sons secured for him the blood, which he poured on the altar and around it.

Verse ConceptsSprinklingSprinkling BloodKilling Sacrifices

He slaughtered the ox and ram for the peace offering sacrifice on behalf of the people. Aaron's sons delivered the blood to him, which he poured on the altar and around it.

Verse ConceptsSprinkling BloodKilling Sacrifices

He shall have the house scraped all around inside, and they shall dump the plaster that they scrape off at an unclean place outside the city.

Verse ConceptsMedicineOutside The CityPlasterUnclean Things

He is to wear a holy linen tunic, and linen undergarments are to be on his body. He must tie a linen sash around him and wrap his head with a linen turban. These are holy garments; he must bathe his body with water before he wears them.

Verse ConceptsBodyBathing, For CleansingHead coveringHigh Priest, In OtLinenPurificationLinen ItemsPriests GarmentsTurban And CapsUndergarments

When he goes to the altar in the LORD's presence to make atonement for himself, he is to take some of the blood from the bull and the male goat, place it around the horns of the altar,

Verse ConceptsHornsPriests Atoning

But houses in villages that have no walls around them are to be classified as open fields. The right to redeem such houses stays in effect, and they are to be released at the Jubilee.

Verse ConceptsVillagesThe CountrysideReversion Of Things

The open pastureland around their cities may not be sold, for it is their permanent possession.

Verse ConceptsProperty, Land

Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves.

Verse ConceptsMaking SlavesDealing With The Nationsslavery

Appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, all its furnishings, and everything in it. They are to transport the tabernacle and all its articles, take care of it, and camp around it.

Verse ConceptsCareRankTentsCarrying Holy ThingsCamping During The ExodusThe Tabernacle

Then the Israelis are to encamp around the tent, arranged according to their company and the standard of their army.

Verse ConceptsBanners, Literal UseCamp, Of IsraelFlagsCamping During The Exodus

The Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the Israelite community.”

Verse ConceptsCamping During The ExodusAction Lest God Be Angry

“The Israelites are to camp under their respective banners beside the flags of their ancestral houses. They are to camp around the tent of meeting at a distance from it:

Verse ConceptsBanners, Literal UseWeights And Measures, DistancesFlags

and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the doorway of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its cords, according to all the service concerning them.

Verse ConceptsTentsSacrifice On The Bronze Altar

the pillars around the courtyard, their sockets, pegs, and tent cords.

Verse ConceptsPegs

and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the doorway of the gate of the court which is around the tabernacle and the altar, and their cords and all the equipment for their service; and all that is to be done, they shall perform.

the pillars around the courtyard, their sockets, their pegs, their ropes, and all the utensils for all their services. Assign the utensils by name to each person whose responsibility it will be to carry them.

Verse ConceptsTentsPegs

Bible Theasaurus

Approximately (3 instances)
Around (870 instances)
Roughly (9 instances)

Reverse Interlinear

Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
περιτίθημι 
Peritithemi 
Usage: 6

περίχωρος 
Perichoros 
Usage: 10

φραγμός 
Phragmos 
Usage: 1

Holman Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2009 by Holman Bible Publishers.

International Standard Version Copyright © 1996-2008 by the ISV Foundation.

New American Standard Bible Copyright ©1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org

NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. NetBible