18 occurrences

'Nearest' in the Bible

And if the lamb is more than enough for the family, let that family and its nearest neighbour have a lamb between them, taking into account the number of persons and how much food is needed for every man.

Verse ConceptsSmallnessEating Before GodAccording To PeopleFew PeopleNeighbours

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

Verse ConceptsTwo Parts Of ConstructionsTenons And Bars

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.

Verse ConceptsGold Items For The Tabernacl

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.

Verse ConceptsTwo Ornaments

If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of Possessionsethics, socialPoverty, Remedies ForRedemption, In Everyday Life

And nearest to him will be the tribe of Issachar, with Nethanel, the son of Zuar, as their chief.

And nearest to him, the tribe of Simeon, with Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, as their chief.

Nearest to him will be the tribe of Asher, with Pagiel, the son of Ochran, as their chief.

And if his father has no brothers, then give it to his nearest relation in the family, as his heritage: this is to be a decision made by law for the children of Israel, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke;

Verse ConceptsTownYokesHeifersUnused

And all the responsible men of that town which is nearest to the dead man, washing their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the valley,

Verse ConceptsDislocating

For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessPeace, Human Destruction OfPersecution, Forms OfSympathyWaitingWatchfulness, Of BelieversWatching To EntrapDefamationDeceiving OneselfFear Will ComeFriends FailingMan AvengingUnder One's BreathRevengeterrorism

See, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your father's brother, will come to you and say, Give the price and get for yourself my property in Anathoth: for you have the right of the nearest relation.

Verse ConceptsRelationships And Dating

So Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, came to me, as the Lord had said, to the place of the armed watchmen, and said to me, Give the price and get my property which is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: for you have the nearest relation's right to the heritage; so get it for yourself. Then it was clear to me that this was the word of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsNegotiationRedemption, In Everyday Life

See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon's captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep into the wet earth, and they are turned away back from you.

Verse ConceptsMarshesMen DeceivingFriends Failing

The covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; and there were palm-trees on the uprights: and there were eight steps going up to it.

Verse ConceptsEight ThingsPillars For Ezekiel's TempleStepsPlans For A New Temple

And the covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it.

Verse ConceptsEight ThingsPillars For Ezekiel's TempleSteps

Its uprights were on the side nearest to the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it.

Verse ConceptsEight ThingsPillars For Ezekiel's TempleSteps

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