'Encounter' in the Bible

They encounter darkness by day,and they grope at noonas if it were night.

Now the cistern where Ishmael had thrown all the corpses of the men he had struck down was a large one that King Asa had made in the encounter with Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.

“And now I am on my way to Jerusalem, bound in my spirit, not knowing what I will encounter there,