qerev (to approach)

Meaning

To approach, come near(P'al) to approach · (Pael) to offer, draw near · (Aphel) to be summoned

How it's translated

they approached 2
offering 1
and they offered 1
so you may offer 1
he approached 1
and just as approached he 1
they brought near him 1
i approached 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Daniel 6
Ezra 3

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 3:26In contextThen Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
Daniel 6:12In contextThen they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
Daniel 6:20In contextAnd when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
Daniel 7:13In contextI saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
Daniel 7:16In contextI came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
Ezra 6:10That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

All 9 verses, by book

Ezra 3: 6:10 6:17 7:17
Daniel 6: 3:8 3:26 6:12 6:20 7:13 7:16

Aramaic dictionary

קְרֵב qerev · to approach

1) to approach, come near 1a) (P'al) to approach 1b) (Pael) to offer, draw near 1c) (Aphel) to be summoned

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “approach” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

APPROACH, verb intransitive

[The Latin proximus contains the root, but the word, in the positive degree, is not found in the Latin. It is from a root in class Brg, signifying to drive, move, or press toward.]

To come or go near, in place; to draw near; to advance nearer.“Wherefore approached ye so nigh the city?” 2 Samuel 11:20
To draw near in time.
To draw near, in a figurative sense; to advance near to a point aimed at, in science, literature, government, morals, etc.; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.
To draw near in duty, as in prayer or worship.

All definitions and other forms of “approach”

APPROACH, verb transitive

To come near to; as, Pope approaches Virgil in smoothness of versification.
To have access carnally. Leviticus 18:6
In gardening, to ingraft a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock.
The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near; as, he was aprised of the enemy's approach
Access; as, the approach to kings.
In fortification, not only the advances of an army are called approaches, but the works thrown up by the beseigers, to protect them in their advances towards a fortress.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.