'Nearest' in the Bible

If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each person will eat.

Every board is to be joined to the one nearest to it by two tongues, and so for every board in the House.

Then make two gold rings and put them on the lower ends of the bag, at the edge of it on the inner side nearest to the ephod.

And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two lower ends of the bag, on the inner side nearest to the ephod.