{"id":69721,"date":"2022-09-29T04:11:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T09:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/near-adverb-near-come-draw-nearer\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T04:11:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T09:11:55","slug":"near-adverb-near-come-draw-nearer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/near-adverb-near-come-draw-nearer\/","title":{"rendered":"Near (Adverb), Near (come, draw), Nearer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Near (Adverb), Near (come, draw), Nearer<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;near, nigh,&#8221; is used (a) of place, e.g., <span class='bible'>Luk 19:11<\/span>, &#8220;nigh;&#8221; <span class='bible'>Joh 3:23<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Joh 11:54<\/span>, &#8220;near;&#8221; <span class='bible'>Joh 6:19<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Joh 6:23<\/span>, &#8220;nigh;&#8221; metaphorically in <span class='bible'>Rom 10:8<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Eph 2:13<\/span>, <span class='bible'>Eph 2:17<\/span>, &#8220;nigh;&#8221; (b) of time, e.g., <span class='bible'>Mat 24:32-33<\/span>, &#8220;nigh;&#8221; so <span class='bible'>Luk 21:30-31<\/span>; as a preposition, <span class='bible'>Heb 6:8<\/span>, &#8220;nigh unto (a curse),&#8221; and <span class='bible'>Heb 8:13<\/span>, &#8220;nigh unto (vanishing away).&#8221; See HAND (at), NIGH, READY. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> the comparative degree of No. 1, and the neuter of the adjective enguteros, used adverbially, occurs in <span class='bible'>Rom 13:11<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;near, close by, neighboring&#8221; (the neuter of the adjective plesios, used as an adverb), occurs in <span class='bible'>Joh 4:5<\/span>. See NEIGHBOR. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;necessary,&#8221; is used, in a secondary sense, of persons connected by bonds of nature or friendship, with the meaning &#8220;intimate,&#8221; in <span class='bible'>Act 10:24<\/span>, &#8220;(his) near (friends);&#8221; it is found in this sense in the papyri. See NECESSARY, NEEDFUL. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> transitively, &#8220;to bring near&#8221; (not in NT; in the Sept., e.g., <span class='bible'>Gen 48:10<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Isa 5:8<\/span>); intransitively, &#8220;to draw near,&#8221; e.g., <span class='bible'>Mat 21:34<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Luk 18:40<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Luk 19:41<\/span>, RV, &#8220;draw nigh;&#8221; see APPROACH, A. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;to come to, go to,&#8221; is translated &#8220;drew near&#8221; in <span class='bible'>Act 7:31<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Heb 10:22<\/span>. See COME, No. 10. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> is used (a) transitively, &#8220;to bring,&#8221; <span class='bible'>Act 16:20<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Pe 3:18<\/span>; (b) intransitively, &#8220;to draw near,&#8221; in the latter sense in <span class='bible'>Act 27:27<\/span>. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Vine&#8217;s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near (Adverb), Near (come, draw), Nearer &#8220;near, nigh,&#8221; is used (a) of place, e.g., Luk 19:11, &#8220;nigh;&#8221; Joh 3:23; Joh 11:54, &#8220;near;&#8221; Joh 6:19, Joh 6:23, &#8220;nigh;&#8221; metaphorically in Rom 10:8; Eph 2:13, Eph 2:17, &#8220;nigh;&#8221; (b) of time, e.g., Mat 24:32-33, &#8220;nigh;&#8221; so Luk 21:30-31; as a preposition, Heb 6:8, &#8220;nigh unto (a curse),&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/near-adverb-near-come-draw-nearer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Near (Adverb), Near (come, draw), Nearer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}