Dictionaries :: Near (Adverb), near (Come, Draw), Nearer

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Near (Adverb), near (Come, Draw), Nearer:

"near, nigh," is used

(a) of place, e.g., Luk 19:11, "nigh;" Jhn 3:23; 11:54, "near;" Jhn 6:19, 23, "nigh;" metaphorically in Rom 10:8; Eph 2:13, 17, "nigh;"

(b) of time, e.g., Mat 24:32, 33, "nigh;" so Luk 21:30, 31; as a preposition, Hbr 6:8, "nigh unto (a curse)," and Hbr 8:13, "nigh unto (vanishing away)."
See HAND (at), NIGH, READY.

Near (Adverb), near (Come, Draw), Nearer:

the comparative degree of No. 1, and the neuter of the adjective enguteros, used adverbially, occurs in Rom 13:11.

Near (Adverb), near (Come, Draw), Nearer:

"near, close by, neighboring" (the neuter of the adjective plesios, used as an adverb), occurs in Jhn 4:5.
See NEIGHBOR.

Near (Adverb), near (Come, Draw), Nearer:

"necessary," is used, in a secondary sense, of persons connected by bonds of nature or friendship, with the meaning "intimate," in Act 10:24, "(his) near (friends);" it is found in this sense in the papyri.
See NECESSARY, NEEDFUL.

Near (Adverb), near (Come, Draw), Nearer:

transitively, "to bring near" (not in NT; in the Sept., e.g., Gen 48:10; Isa 5:8); intransitively, "to draw near," e.g., Mat 21:34; Luk 18:40; 19:41, RV, "draw nigh;" see APPROACH, A.

Near (Adverb), near (Come, Draw), Nearer:

"to come to, go to," is translated "drew near" in Act 7:31; Hbr 10:22.
See COME, No. 10.

Near (Adverb), near (Come, Draw), Nearer:

is used

(a) transitively, "to bring," Act 16:20; 1Pe 3:18;

(b) intransitively, "to draw near," in the latter sense in Act 27:27.