2 Samuel 11:20
And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
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Approached
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2 Kings 16:12
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
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קָרַב
qârab · kaw-rab'
1 times translated as this KJV form281 total Strong's occurrences
to approach (causatively, bring near) for whatever purpose
Strong's KJV usage: (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.
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And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
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approach
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.]
1. To come or go near, in place; to draw near; to advance nearer.
Wherefore approached ye so nigh the city? 2 Samuel 11:20.
2. To draw near in time.
And so much the more as ye see the day approac. Hebrews 10:1.
3. 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.
4. To draw near in duty, as in prayer or worship.
They take delight in approaching to God. Isiah. 51.
APPROACH, verb transitive
1. To come near to; as, Pope approaches Virgil in smoothness of versification. This use of the word is elliptical, to being omitted, so that the verb can hardly be said to be transitive. The old use of the word, as 'approach the hand to the handle, ' is not legitimate.
2. To have access carnally. Leviticus 18:6.
3. In gardening, to ingraft a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock.
APPROACH, n
1. The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near; as, he was aprised of the enemy's approach
2. Access; as, the approach to kings.
3. 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). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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