Approaching

1. Near, approaching

• approaching 10
• and approaching 2

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

• Numbers 5
• Ezekiel 2
• Deuteronomy 1
• 1 Samuel 1
• 2 Samuel 1
• 1 Kings 1

6 books in all.

• Numbers 3:10And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest’s office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
• Numbers 3:38But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
• Numbers 17:13Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
• Numbers 18:7Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
• Deuteronomy 20:3And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
• 1 Samuel 17:41And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.

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

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

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