101 occurrences in 10 translations

'Surrounded' in the Bible

Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.

Verse ConceptsEnemies Surrounding

There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the middle of the field. Suddenly my sheaf rose up and stood upright and your sheaves surrounded my sheaf and bowed down to it!"

Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsBinding cornGrainJoining ThingsBowing Before JosephReapingPeople Getting Upvulnerability

Joseph collected the surplus food throughout the land of Egypt, storing food in cities; that is, he gathered the food from fields that surrounded every city and stored it there.

Verse ConceptsThriftGathering Food

All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain surrounded by smoke. When the people saw it they trembled and stood at a distance.

Verse ConceptsLightningMusical Instruments, types ofSmokeTheophanyThunderFear, Of UnknownStanding At A DistanceTrumpets For SignallingThose Frightened Of GodWitnessingdistancesmokingThunder Showing God's Presence

Engrave the two stones with the names of Israel’s sons as a gem cutter engraves a seal. Mount them, surrounded with gold filigree settings.

Verse ConceptsCraftsmenArts And Crafts, Types ofSealsPlaitingengravingGold Items For The Tabernacl

Then they mounted the onyx stones surrounded with gold filigree settings, engraved with the names of Israel’s sons as a gem cutter engraves a seal.

Verse ConceptsengravingSeals

and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were surrounded with gold filigree in their settings.

Verse ConceptsPrecious StonesPlaitingGold Items For The TabernaclJewellery And God

He will purify the most holy place in this way for all their sins because of the Israelites’ impurities and rebellious acts. He will do the same for the tent of meeting that remains among them, because it is surrounded by their impurities.

Verse ConceptsAtonementPriests Atoning

the hangings at the courtyard, the curtain at the entrance of the courtyard that surrounded the tent, the altar, and all of the tent cords in use.

Verse ConceptsTentsSacrifice On The Bronze Altar

He found him in a desolate land,in a barren, howling wilderness;He surrounded him, cared for him,and protected him as the pupil of His eye.

Verse ConceptsFruitBarren, LandGod Keeping WatchApple Of The EyeGod SurroundingEyes Cared ForFinding PeopleGod Led Them Through The Wildernesswandering

Then the others came out from the city against them, so the men of Ai were surrounded by the Israelis, some on one side and some on the other. Israel attacked them until no one was left to survive or escape.

Verse ConceptsThe Middle

The western border was at the Mediterranean Sea coastline. This is the border that surrounded the territory of the descendants of Judah, according to their families.

Verse ConceptsMediterranean SeaWestern Borders

These cities were each surrounded by pasture lands, as was the case with all of these cities.

They abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods from among the gods of the nations who surrounded them. They bowed down in worship of them, and by doing so angered the LORD.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentRenunciationBowing To False GodsDifferent GodsGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

So in his burning anger against Israel, the LORD gave them into the domination of marauders who plundered them. The enemies who surrounded the Israelis controlled them, and they were no longer able to withstand their adversaries.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Acts Of In OtBuying and sellingInvasions

The Israelis did not remember the LORD their God, who continually delivered them from the domination of their enemies who surrounded them on every side.

When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded the place and waited in ambush for him all that night at the city gate. While they were waiting quietly, they said, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

Verse ConceptsDawnWaitingAmbushActing All NightAttempting To Kill Specific People

While they were enjoying themselves, all of a sudden, perverted men of the city surrounded the house and beat on the door. They said to the old man who was the owner of the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him!”

Verse ConceptsVulgarityCrude LanguageDecadenceHomosexualityKnockingSexual Union IntendedAbuse

Citizens of Gibeah ganged up on me and surrounded the house at night. They intended to kill me, but they raped my concubine, and she died.

Verse ConceptsLewdnessAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleDeath Of Unnamed Individuals

They surrounded the Benjaminites, pursued them, and easily overtook them near Gibeah toward the east.

Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men to take them.

Verse ConceptsOpposite SidesHasty Action

and 10 young men who were Joab’s armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.

Verse ConceptsTen People

For the waves of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.

Verse ConceptsAnxiety, Examples OfFear, Of DeathFear Of DeathFloodsoverwhelmed

The cords of Sheol have surrounded me, Before me have been the snares of death.

Verse ConceptsFear, Of DeathAfflicted To DeathEvil TrappingFear Of Death

“You know that David my father was unable to build a house for the name of the Lord his God because of the wars which surrounded him, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.

Verse ConceptsDavid, Abilities OfFootstoolsFeetPeople's Inability To Serve GodSolomon's TemplePeople OvercomingReady For WarA Place For God's NameAll Enemies Under God's Feet

So the great court was surrounded by three rows of cut stone, along with a row of cedar beams, just like the inner court of the LORD's Temple and the porch surrounding the Temple.

Verse ConceptsCourtyardCedarWallsCedar WoodThree Parts Of Constructions

They destroyed the cities, and each of them threw stones to cover every good piece of land. They stopped up every spring of water and cut down every good tree. In the end, only the buildings of Kir-hareseth were left. Then men with slings surrounded the city and attacked it.

Verse ConceptsSlingsFelling TreesCities Under AttackThrowing StonesPeople Drying Things UpHarming Treescrusades

And when the attendant of the man of God rose early and went forth, behold, an army surrounded the city, with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?

Verse ConceptsMorningEnemies SurroundingAttacking With ChariotsThose Who Rose EarlyEarthly Armiesservanthoodarmy

So Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. Then at night he set out to attack the Edomites who had surrounded him and the chariot commanders, but his troops fled to their tents.

Verse ConceptsChariotsAttacking With ChariotsIsrael FleeingDuring One NightThe Nations Attacked

They rejected the LORD's statutes, the covenant that he had made with their ancestors, and his warnings that he gave them. They pursued meaninglessness and became meaningless themselves as they followed the lifestyles of the nations that surrounded them, a practice that the LORD had warned them not to do.

Verse ConceptsFutilityFalse ReligionConformityPrayerlessnessRejection Of GodImitating Wicked PeopleForsaking God's ThingsUseless EndeavourBreaking The Covenant

Zedekiah then rebelled against the king of Babylon, so on the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his entire army approached Jerusalem, attacked it, encamped against it, and built a siege wall that surrounded the city.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahAttackingInvasionsKingsSiegesTravelWarfare, Examples OfArmies, Against IsraelFortsMonth 10Years Of Zedekiah

Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. As the king made his way along the route to the Arabah,

Verse ConceptsHorticultureWallsEnemies SurroundingComing BetweenWalled TownsIsrael FleeingDuring One NightTwo Parts Of Constructions

The Chaldean army that accompanied the captain of the guard demolished the walls that surrounded Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of JerusalemDestruction Of Jerusalem's Wall

along with all their settlements that surrounded these cities as far as Baal this is their settlement history.

After David had settled down to live in his palace, he spoke with the prophet Nathan. "Look, here I am living in this cedar palace, but the ark of the LORD's covenant remains surrounded by curtains!"

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, FunctionPalacesBuilding God's DwellingRoyal HousesThe Ark Moved AroundCedar WoodMoving To A New Place

"Isn't the LORD your God with you? Hasn't he surrounded you with comfort? He has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my control, and the land lies subdued both in the LORD's presence and before his people.

Verse ConceptsGod With You

including details regarding his reign, his power, the circumstances that attended his life, Israel, and all of the kingdoms of the countries that surrounded him.

He crafted a circular sea of cast metal 10 cubits from rim to rim and five cubits tall. A line 30 cubits long surrounded it.

They attacked all the cities that surrounded Gerar, because fear of the LORD had overwhelmed them. The Israelis spoiled all the cities, because there was a lot to plunder in them.

Verse ConceptsVillagesTerror Of God

The terror of the Lord was on all the kingdoms of the lands that surrounded Judah, so they didn’t fight against Jehoshaphat.

Verse ConceptsKingdomsReverence, And Social BehaviourTerror Of God

And it came to pass when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, That is the king of Israel; and they surrounded him to fight; and Jehoshaphat cried out, and Jehovah helped him; and God diverted them from him.

Verse ConceptsPrayer, Answers To

So Jehoram crossed into Edom with his commanders and all his chariots. Then at night he set out to attack the Edomites who had surrounded him and the chariot commanders.

Haven't you surrounded him with a fence on all sides, around his house, and around all that he owns? You have blessed everything he puts his hands on and you have increased his livestock in the land.

Verse ConceptsSatan, Work OfBlessed By GodGod's ProtectionFamily FirstProtecting Your Familypossessions

Know now that +God hath overthrown me, and hath surrounded me with his net.

Verse ConceptsNetsGod TrappingIs God Unjust?

Who can open his jaws,surrounded by those terrifying teeth?

Verse ConceptsMouthsTeethOther References To Mouths

from the wicked who have afflicted me, from my enemies who have surrounded me.

Verse ConceptsOvercoming EnemiesProtection From EnemiesEnemy Attacks

They have now surrounded us in our steps;They set their eyes to cast us down to the ground.

Verse ConceptsEnemies Surrounding

The cords of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.

Verse ConceptsCordsSheolAfflicted To DeathEvil Trapping

Many bulls have surrounded me; the vicious bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

Verse ConceptsBullsWicked Described AsEnemies SurroundingWild OxUnicorns

For dogs have surrounded me;a gang of evildoers has closed in on me;they pierced my hands and my feet.

Verse ConceptsdogsEnemies SurroundingMessianic Prophecies

For troubles without number have surrounded me;my sins have overtaken me; I am unable to see.They are more than the hairs of my head,and my courage leaves me.

Verse ConceptsAn Innumerable NumberGuilty ConsciencesDespair, Description OfNumber Of HairsHair

I am surrounded by lions. I lie down with those who burn with fire that is, with people whose teeth are like spears and arrows whose tongues are like sharp swords.

Verse ConceptsArrows, Figurative OfBitingLionsSpeech, Power And Significance OfSuffering, Of Jesus ChristTeethSharpnessEnemies Surrounding

They have surrounded me as waters all the day, They have gone round against me together,

Verse ConceptsThings SurroundingWater, As A Symbol Of AfflictionFloods

They have also surrounded me with words of hatred,And fought against me without cause.

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes OfPeople Being HatedEnemy Attacks

The cords of death surrounded me, the pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadAgony, DeathdefeatRopesCordsSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfAnxiety, Examples OfAfflicted To Death

All the nations surrounded me;in the name of Yahweh I destroyed them.

Verse ConceptsEnemies Surrounding

They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me;in the name of Yahweh I destroyed them.

Verse ConceptsEnemies Surrounding

They surrounded me like bees;they were extinguished like a fire among thorns;in the name of Yahweh I destroyed them.

Verse ConceptsBeesInsectsThornsWicked Described AsEnemies SurroundingExtinguishingWeed

Cords of the wicked have surrounded me, Thy law I have not forgotten.

Verse ConceptsForgetting GodRopesCords

There was a small city with few men in it. A great king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege works against it.

Verse ConceptsFew People

It is Solomon’s royal littersurrounded by 60 warriorsfrom the mighty of Israel.

Your navel is a rounded bowl;it never lacks mixed wine.Your waist is a mound of wheatsurrounded by lilies.

So He poured out on Jacob His furious angerand the power of war.It surrounded him with fire, but he did not know it;it burned him, but he paid no attention.

Verse ConceptsHardened HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedChastisementSensitivityInsensibilityBurning PeopleStrength In Battle

They have surrounded her like those guarding a field because they have rebelled against me,'" declares the LORD.

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of Israel

Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors fled. They left the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. They made their way along the route to the Arabah.

Verse ConceptsBattering ramsHorticultureComing BetweenCity GatesIsrael Fleeing

The whole Babylonian army that came with the captain of the royal guard tore down the walls that surrounded Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of Jerusalem's Wall

Now the pillars, [the] height of one pillar [was] eighteen cubits, and a thread of twelve cubits surrounded it, and its thickness [was] four fingers, hollowed out.

Verse ConceptsFingersWeights And Measures, LinearDimensions Of PillarsBreadthHollownessHollow

He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.

Verse ConceptsHard TasksNations Attacking Israel

I was amazed to see a wind storm blow in from the north, consisting of a massive cloud and fire that was flashing back and forth, surrounded by bright light. From deep within the cloud, something was shining that appeared to have a color like bronze that had been placed in fire until it glowed.

Verse ConceptsLight, NaturalLightningNorthTheophanyWhirlwindsCompassesOut Of The NorthFire Emanating From GodGod Is LightColorThe North Wind

Their wheel rims were ornate and terrifying. They were full of eyes that surrounded the four of them.

Verse ConceptsEyes In ProphecyFear Of Other Things

She will be a place where fishing nets are spread, surrounded by the sea. For I have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord. She will become plunder for the nations,

Verse ConceptsNetsSpreadingFishing

Abundant water made it great, Subterranean rivers made it grow. Rivers surrounded the area where it had been planted, and water channels nourished all the trees in the fields.

Verse ConceptsWater For PlantsPlants Growing UpGrowing

Her grave will be set in the remotest part of the Pit, surrounded by those who accompanied her. All of them will have been killed, executed violently, who spread terror throughout the land of the living.

Verse ConceptsGoing Down To The PitFearing Other PeopleLife And Death

All of a sudden, we were at the exterior wall that completely surrounded the Temple. The man whom I had observed held a measuring reed that was six cubits long as measured in cubits that were a cubit and a handbreadth long. As he measured the thickness of the wall, he measured out one reed. Its height was also one reed.

Verse ConceptsLengthWeights And Measures, LinearDimensions Of WallsDimensions Of Other Things

I observed a raised platform that surrounded the Temple, and the foundations of the side chambers were a full six cubits deep.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsHousesWeights And Measures, LinearDimensions Of ChambersFoundations Of Buildings

A low wall built of masonry surrounded each courtyard, with boiling places set in rows in the wall.

Verse ConceptsFour Other Things

But leave its taproot in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it surrounded by the grass of the field. Let it become damp with the dew of the sky, and let it live with the animals in the grass of the land.

Verse ConceptsIronStumps Of A TreeIron ObjectsRelation Of Animals To Man

As for the king seeing a holy sentinel coming down from heaven and saying, 'Chop down the tree and destroy it, but leave its taproot in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze around it, surrounded by the grass of the field. Let it become damp with the dew of the sky, and let it live with the wild animals, until seven periods of time go by for him' --

Verse ConceptsStumps Of A TreeFelling TreesSeven YearsIron ObjectsRelation Of Animals To ManSpecific Holy Individuals

They do not realize that I remember all of their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me.

Verse ConceptsGod, All knowingGod's Knowledge Of PeopleAbsence Of ThoughtSin, And God's CharacterSin, Known To GodExposure Of SinThings SurroundingGod Remembering Sin

Ephraim has surrounded me with lies; the house of Israel has surrounded me with deceit. But Judah still roams about with God; he remains faithful to the Holy One.

Verse ConceptsDeception In Fallen Human NatureThose Who DeceivedGod's FaithfulnessLying And Deceit

“For You cast me into the deep,Into the [deep] heart of the seas,And the currents surrounded and engulfed me;All Your breakers and billowing waves passed over me.

Verse ConceptsChaosHeart, HumanMonotonySevere AfflictionsThrowing PeopleSinkingIn The Heart Of The SeaSwampedDeep Seaswaterfalls

Flood waters encompassed me, the deep surrounded me while seaweed wrapped around my head.

Verse ConceptsHeadsWaters Of AfflictionSwampedWeedjonah

But now slash yourself, daughter surrounded by soldiers! We are besieged! With a scepter they strike Israel's ruler on the side of his face.

Verse ConceptsCheeksRulersNames And Titles For ChristChrist, Names ForSmitten CheeksMustering TroopsStriking People With A StaffNations Attacking IsraelMessianic Prophecies

Shepherd Your people with Your staff,the flock that is Your possession.They live alone in a woodlandsurrounded by pastures.Let them graze in Bashan and Gileadas in ancient times.

Verse ConceptsGod, As ShepherdForestsKnowing God, Effects OfPeople Of God, In OtStaffFertile LandHistory Of NationsA Solitary PeoplePasturing The Flock

"Are you any better than Thebes, which sits by the upper Nile, surrounded by water? The sea was her defense, the waters her wall of protection.

Verse ConceptsThings SurroundingFigurative WallsSea Dwellers

But while he was saying this, a cloud appeared and surrounded them, and they became terrified as they were being overshadowed by the cloud.

Verse ConceptsGod, Glory OfClouds, Miraculous UsesClouds And Jesus ChristSpeech, DivineFear, Of UnknownShadow Of GodThose Frightened Of God

Go! I am sending you out like lambs surrounded by wolves.

Verse ConceptsLambsWolvesChrist Sending

Then the Jews surrounded Him and asked, “How long are You going to keep us in suspense? If You are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

Verse ConceptsPeople WaitingPlainnessBefore God ActsWho Is Jesus?

After the disciples surrounded him, he got up and went into the town. The next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.

Verse ConceptsThe Next DayEntering CitiesPeople Getting Up

When Paul arrived, the Jewish leaders who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him and began bringing a number of serious charges against him that they couldn't prove.

Verse ConceptsCrimesProofsPeople Accusing People

by faith the walls of Jericho did fall, having been surrounded for seven days;

Verse ConceptsFaith, Nature OfWeeksSeven DaysExploits Of FaithThings FallingFalling

and the One seated looked like jasper and carnelian stone. A rainbow that looked like an emerald surrounded the throne.

Verse ConceptsEmeraldsJewelsRainbowsRainSymbolsTheophanyPrecious StonesJewellery And GodAppearances ofThe RainbowColorRainbow

Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, surrounded by a cloud, with a rainbow over his head. His face was like the sun, his legs were like fiery pillars,

Verse ConceptsLegsPillarsRainbowsStrength Of AngelsObelisksHeavenly FacesTypes Of FeetAngels Doing God's WorkOthers Going DownDistinctive ClothingThe RainbowRainbow

Bible Theasaurus

Besiege (18 instances)
Border (246 instances)
Circle (90 instances)
Circumvent (1 instance)
Encircle (14 instances)
Encircled (29 instances)
Environ (1 instance)
Fence (12 instances)
Skirt (19 instances)
Surround (69 instances)
Surrounded (101 instances)

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