about KJV

“About” is in the King James Bible 632 times, in 594 verses. Jump to the verses ↓

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  • μέλλω mellō 5 times
  • περιφέρω peripherō 5 times
  • שׁלושׁ שׁלשׁ שׁלושׁה שׁלשׁה shâlôsh shâlôsh shelôshâh shelôshâh 5 times
  • ἐπιστρέφω epistrephō 4 times
  • κυκλόθεν kuklothen 4 times
  • περιάγω periagō 4 times
  • ארבּע ארבּעה 'arba‛ 'arbâ‛âh 4 times
  • מסב מסבּים מסבּות mêsab mesibbı̂ym mesibbôth 4 times
  • שׁלושׁים שׁלשׁים shelôshı̂ym shelôshı̂ym 4 times
  • שׁשׁ שׁשּׁה shêsh shishshâh 4 times
  • κατά kata 3 times
  • κυκλόω kukloō 3 times
  • בּעד be‛ad 3 times
  • גּרגּרות gargerôth 3 times
  • חמשׁ חמשּׁה châmêsh chămishshâh 3 times
  • על ‛al 3 times
  • עשׂה ‛âśâh 3 times
  • עשׂר עשׂרה ‛eśer ‛ăśârâh 3 times
  • μετάγω metagō 2 times
  • περιβάλλω periballō 2 times
  • περιέρχομαι perierchomai 2 times
  • περιζώννυμι perizōnnumi 2 times
  • περιλάμπω perilampō 2 times
  • περιτίθημι peritithēmi 2 times
  • πρός pros 2 times
  • אזר 'âzar 2 times
  • אלף 'eleph 2 times
  • דּבר dâbâr 2 times
  • הלך hâlak 2 times
  • יום yôm 2 times
  • כּתר kâthar 2 times
  • מתן môthen 2 times
  • עלה ‛âlâh 2 times
  • δέ de 1 time
  • διέρχομαι dierchomai 1 time
  • ἐν en 1 time
  • ἐπιχειρέω epicheireō 1 time
  • ἡμῖν hēmin 1 time
  • ἱερός hieros 1 time
  • λογομαχέω logomacheō 1 time
  • μάχη machē 1 time
  • παντόθεν pantothen 1 time
  • πειράζω peirazō 1 time
  • πειράω peiraō 1 time
  • περιαστράπτω periastraptō 1 time
  • περιδέω perideō 1 time
  • περιΐ́στημι periistēmi 1 time
  • περίκειμαι perikeimai 1 time

And 63 others, each in a phrase with “about” a few times.

translating H5437

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Genesis
  1. 37:7 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
  2. 42:24 And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
Exodus
  1. 13:18 But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy
  1. 32:10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Joshua
  1. 16:6 And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;
Judges
  1. 19:22 Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
  2. 20:5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
1 Samuel
  1. 5:8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither.
  2. 5:9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.
  3. 5:10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.
  4. 15:12 And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.
  5. 15:27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
  6. 22:17 And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.
2 Samuel
  1. 3:12 And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.
  2. 14:20 To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.
  3. 18:15 And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
  4. 22:6 The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
1 Kings
  1. 2:15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD.
  2. 5:3 Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
  3. 7:15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
  4. 8:14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)
2 Kings
  1. 3:25 And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
  2. 8:21 So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.
2 Chronicles
  1. 13:13 But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
  2. 14:7 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.
  3. 17:9 And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.
  4. 18:31 And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.
  5. 23:2 And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
Job
  1. 16:13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
  2. 40:22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Psalms
  1. 7:7 So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
  2. 18:5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
  3. 48:12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
  4. 55:10 Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
  5. 59:6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
  6. 59:14 And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
  7. 88:17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
  8. 118:10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.
  9. 118:11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
  10. 118:12 They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
Ecclesiastes
  1. 1:6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
  2. 2:20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
  3. 12:5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Song of Solomon
  1. 3:2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
  2. 3:3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
  3. 5:7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
Isaiah
  1. 23:16 Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
  2. 28:27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
Jeremiah
  1. 31:39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
  2. 41:14 So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.

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