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Lexicon :: Strong's G1448 - engizō

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ἐγγίζω
Transliteration
engizō (Key)
Pronunciation
eng-id'-zo
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
42x in 18 unique form(s) TR
43x in 21 unique form(s) LXX
125x in 42 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:330,194

Strong’s Definitions

ἐγγίζω engízō, eng-id'-zo; from G1451; to make near, i.e. (reflexively) approach:—approach, be at hand, come (draw) near, be (come, draw) nigh.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 43x

The KJV translates Strong's G1448 in the following manner: draw nigh (12x), be at hand (9x), come nigh (8x), come near (5x), draw near (4x), miscellaneous (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 43x
The KJV translates Strong's G1448 in the following manner: draw nigh (12x), be at hand (9x), come nigh (8x), come near (5x), draw near (4x), miscellaneous (5x).

  1. to bring near, to join one thing to another

  2. to draw or come near to, to approach

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐγγίζω engízō, eng-id'-zo; from G1451; to make near, i.e. (reflexively) approach:—approach, be at hand, come (draw) near, be (come, draw) nigh.
STRONGS G1448:
ἐγγίζω; imperfect ἤγγιζον; Attic future ἐγγιῶ (James 4:8 [Buttmann 37 (32); Winer's Grammar § 13, 1 c.]); 1 aorist ἤγγισα; perfect ἤγγικα (ἐγγύς); in Greek writings from Polybius and Diodorus on; Sept. for נִגַשׁ and קָרַב.
1. transitive, to bring near, to join one thing to another: Polybius 8, 6, 7; Sept., Genesis 48:10; Isaiah 5:8.
2. intransitive, to draw or come near, to approach; absolutely, Matthew 21:34; Luke 18:40; [Luke 19:41]; Luke 21:28; 22:1; 24:15; Acts 7:17; Acts 21:33; Acts 23:15; [Hebrews 10:25]; perfect ἤγγικε, has come nigh, is at hand: ἡ βασιλ. τοῦ θεοῦ, Matthew 3:2; Matthew 4:17; Matthew 10:7; Mark 1:15; Luke 10:11; with the addition ἐφ’ ὑμᾶς, Luke 10:9; ἡ ἐρήμωσις, Luke 21:20; ἡ ὥρα, Matthew 26:45; ὁ παραδιδούς με, Matthew 26:46; [Mark 14:42 (where Tdf. ἤγγισεν)]; ὁ καιρός, Luke 21:8; ἡ ἡμέρα, Romans 13:12; τὸ τέλος, 1 Peter 4:7; ἡ παρουσία τοῦ κυρίου, James 5:8. Construed with the dative of the person or the place approached: Luke 7:12; Luke 15:1, 25; Luke 22:47: Acts 9:3; Acts 10:9; Acts 22:6; ἐγγίζειν τῷ θεῷ (in the Sept. used especially of the priests entering the temple to offer sacrifices or to perform other ministrations there, Exodus 19:22; Exodus 34:30; Leviticus 10:3, etc.): to worship God, Matthew 15:8 Rec., from Isaiah 29:13; to turn one's thoughts to God, to become acquainted with him, Hebrews 7:19; James 4:8; ὁ θεὸς ἐγγίζει τινί, God draws near to one in the bestowment of his grace and help, James 4:8. Followed by εἰς and the accusative of the place: Matthew 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 18:35; Luke 19:29; Luke 24:28; [followed by πρός with the dative, Luke 19:37, see Buttmann, § 147, 28; others regard this as a pregnant construction, cf. Winer's Grammar, §§ 48, e.; 66, 2 d.]; μέχρι θανάτου ἤγγισε, to draw nigh unto, be at the point of, death, Philippians 2:30 (ἐγγίζειν εἰς θάνατον, Job 33:22); with an adverb of place, ὅπου κλέπτης οὐκ ἐγγίζει, Luke 12:33.
[Compare: προσεγγίζω.]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
48:10
Exodus
19:22; 34:30
Leviticus
10:3
Job
33:22
Isaiah
5:8; 29:13
Matthew
3:2; 4:17; 10:7; 15:8; 21:1; 21:34; 26:45; 26:46
Mark
1:15; 11:1; 14:42
Luke
7:12; 10:9; 10:11; 12:33; 15:1; 15:25; 18:35; 18:40; 19:29; 19:37; 19:41; 21:8; 21:20; 21:28; 22:1; 22:47; 24:15; 24:28
Acts
7:17; 9:3; 10:9; 21:33; 22:6; 23:15
Romans
13:12
Philippians
2:30
Hebrews
7:19; 10:25
James
4:8; 4:8; 4:8; 5:8
1 Peter
4:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1448 matches the Greek ἐγγίζω (engizō),
which occurs 125 times in 121 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 12:11–2Ki 2:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:11 - It came about when he [fn]came near to Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a [fn]beautiful woman;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:23 - Abraham came near and said, “Will You indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - But they said, “Stand aside.” Furthermore, they said, “This one came in [fn]as an alien, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them.” So they pressed hard against [fn]Lot and came near to break the door.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:21 - Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come close, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:22 - So Jacob came close to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:26 - Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come close and kiss me, my son.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:27 - So he came close and kissed him; and when he smelled the smell of his garments, he blessed him and said,
“See, the smell of my son
Is like the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:41

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:41 - So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him; and Esau said [fn]to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:3 - But he himself passed on ahead of them and bowed down to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:16 - Then they journeyed from Bethel; and when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she [fn]suffered severe labor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:18 - [fn]When they saw him from a distance and before he came close to them, they plotted against him to put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:18 - Then Judah approached him, and said, “Oh my lord, may your servant please speak a word in my lord’s ears, and [fn]do not be angry with your servant; for you are equal to Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 45:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:4 - Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come [fn]closer to me.” And they came [fn]closer. And he said, “I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:29 - When [fn]the time for Israel to die drew near, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “Please, if I have found favor in your sight, place now your hand under my thigh and deal with me in kindness and [fn]faithfulness. Please do not bury me in Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:7 - “Now as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died, [fn]to my sorrow, in the land of Canaan on the journey, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:10 - Now the eyes of Israel were so dim from age that he could not see. Then [fn]Joseph brought them close to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:13 - Joseph took them both, Ephraim with his right hand toward Israel’s left, and Manasseh with his left hand toward Israel’s right, and brought them close to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:5 - Then He said, “Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:21 - Then the LORD spoke to Moses, “Go down, [fn]warn the people, so that they do not break through to the LORD to gaze, and many of them [fn]perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:22 - “Also let the priests who come near to the LORD consecrate themselves, or else the LORD will break out against them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:2 - “Moses alone, however, shall come near to the LORD, but they shall not come near, nor shall the people come up with him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:19 - It came about, as soon as [fn]Moses came near the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing; and Moses’ anger burned, and he threw the tablets from his hands and shattered them [fn]at the foot of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:30 - So when Aaron and all the sons of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:3 - Then Moses said to Aaron, “It is what the LORD spoke, saying,
‘By those who come near Me I [fn]will be treated as holy,
And before all the people I will be honored.’”
So Aaron, therefore, kept silent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:3 - also for his virgin sister, who is near to him [fn]because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:21 - ‘No man among the [fn]descendants of Aaron the priest who has a defect is to come near to offer the LORD’S offerings by fire; since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the food of his God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 21:23 - only he shall not go in to the veil or come near the altar because he has a defect, so that he will not profane My sanctuaries. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:25 - ‘If a [fn]fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back what his [fn]relative has sold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17 - “I see him, but not now;
I behold him, but not near;
A star shall come forth from Jacob,
A scepter shall rise from Israel,
And shall crush through the [fn]forehead of Moab,
And [fn]tear down all the sons of [fn]Sheth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:7 - “For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as is the LORD our God whenever we call on Him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:7 - of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end),

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9 - “Beware that there is no base [fn]thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and your eye is hostile toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to the LORD against you, and it will be a sin in you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:2 - “When you are approaching the battle, the priest shall come near and speak to the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - “It shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man, that is, the elders of that city, shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked and which has not pulled in a yoke;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:6 - “All the elders of that city [fn]which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:2 - “If your countryman is not near you, or if you do not know him, then you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall remain with you until your countryman looks for it; then you shall restore it to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:5 - “When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:14 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, [fn]the time for you to die is near; call Joshua, and present yourselves at the tent of meeting, that I may commission him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:52

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:52 - So Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and approached the entrance of the tower to burn it with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:20 - Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed of the LORD who has not withdrawn his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Again Naomi said to her, “The man is [fn]our relative, he is one of our [fn]closest relatives.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:20 - and if it happens that the king’s wrath rises and he says to you, ‘Why did you go so near to the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:5 - And when a man came near to prostrate himself before him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:25 - The watchman called and told the king. And the king said, “If he is by himself there is good news in his mouth.” And he came nearer and nearer.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:42

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:42 - Then all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to [fn]us. Why then [fn]are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s expense, or has [fn]anything been taken for us?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 20:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:16 - Then a wise woman called from the city, “Hear, hear! Please tell Joab, ‘Come here that I may speak with you.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:1 - As David’s [fn]time to die drew near, he charged Solomon his son, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:7 - “But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for they [fn]assisted me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:59

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:59 - “And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the LORD, be near to the LORD our God day and night, that He may maintain the [fn]cause of His servant and the [fn]cause of His people Israel, [fn]as each day requires,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:2 - Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden because it is close beside my house, and I will give you a better vineyard than it in its place; if [fn]you like, I will give you the price of [fn]it in money.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:5 - The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho approached Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that the LORD will take away your master from over [fn]you today?” And he [fn]answered, “Yes, I know; be still.”

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