Strong's #7126: qarab (pronounced kaw-rab')
a primitive root; to approach (causatively, bring near) for whatever purpose:--(cause to) approach, (cause to) bring (forth, near), (cause to) come (near, nigh), (cause to) draw near (nigh), go (near), be at hand, join, be near, offer, present, produce, make ready, stand, take.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
qârab
1) to come near, approach, enter into, draw near
1a) (Qal) to approach, draw near
1b) (Niphal) to be brought near
1c) (Piel) to cause to approach, bring near, cause to draw near
1d) (Hiphil) to bring near, bring, present
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 280 times:
Isaiah 48:16: " Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning;"
Isaiah 54:14: "fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near"
Isaiah 57:3: " But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore."
Isaiah 65:5: "Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These"
Jeremiah 30:21: "themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for"
Lamentations 3:57: " Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not."
Lamentations 4:18: "that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for"
Ezekiel 9:1: "saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand."
Ezekiel 12:23: "in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect"
Ezekiel 18:6: "his neighbor's wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,"
Ezekiel 22:4: "which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore"
Ezekiel 36:8: "to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come."
Ezekiel 37:7: "and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone."
Ezekiel 37:17: " And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one"
Ezekiel 42:14: "are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people."
Ezekiel 43:22: "And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse"
Ezekiel 43:23: "When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish,"
Ezekiel 43:24: " And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up"
Ezekiel 44:7: "in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat"
Ezekiel 44:15: "went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand"
Ezekiel 44:15: "to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith"
Ezekiel 44:16: "into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep"
Ezekiel 44:27: "court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering, saith the Lord GOD."
Ezekiel 46:4: "And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six"
Hosea 7:6: "For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all"
Jonah 1:6: "So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise,"
Zephaniah 3:2: "she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God."
Haggai 2:14: "work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean."
Malachi 1:8: "and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or"
Malachi 3:5: " And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers,"
