'Round' in the Bible

The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah where there is gold.

And the name of the second river is Gihon: this river goes round all the land of Cush.

But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;

And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.

So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it,

So they went on their journey: and the fear of God was on the towns round about, so that they made no attack on the sons of Jacob.

We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine.

And while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them put out his hand; and the woman who was with her put a red thread round his hand, saying, This one came out first.

And then his brother came out, with the red thread round his hand, and he was named Zerah.

Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and he had him clothed with the best linen, and put a chain of gold round his neck;

And Joseph got together all the food of those seven years, and made a store of food in the towns: the produce of the fields round every town was stored up in the town.

And Joseph got his carriage ready and went to Goshen for the meeting with his father; and when he came before him, he put his arms round his neck, weeping.

And all the Egyptians made holes round about the Nile to get drinking-water, for they were not able to make use of the Nile water.

But God took the people round by the waste land near the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up in fighting order out of the land of Egypt.

And it came about that in the evening little birds came up and the place was covered with them: and in the morning there was dew all round about the tents.

And when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth was a small round thing, like small drops of ice on the earth.

And let limits be marked out for the people round the mountain, and say to them, Take care not to go up the mountain or near the sides of it: whoever puts his foot on the mountain will certainly come to his death:

And Moses said to the Lord, The people will not be able to come up the mountain, for you gave us orders to put limits round the mountain, marking it out and making it holy.

It is to be plated inside and out with the best gold, with an edge of gold all round it

Plated with the best gold, with a gold edge all round it;

And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame.

And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar.

And let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits long.

All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass.

And round the skirts of it put fruits in blue and purple and red, with bells of gold between;

A gold bell and a fruit in turn all round the skirts of the robe.

Take the robes, and put the coat and the dress and the ephod and the priest's bag on Aaron; put the band of needlework round him,

And put the linen bands round Aaron and his sons, and the head-dresses on them, to make them priests by my order for ever: so you are to make Aaron and his sons holy to me.

And take all the fat covering the inside of the ox, and the fat joining the liver and the two kidneys with the fat round them, and let them be burned on the altar;

Then take the fat of the sheep, the fat tail, the fat covering the insides, and the fat joining the liver and the two kidneys with the fat round them, and the right leg; for by the offering of this sheep they are to be marked out as priests:

It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it.

Plating it inside and out with the best gold, and putting an edge of gold all round it.

Plating it with the best gold and putting a gold edge all round it.

And he made a frame all round it about as wide as a man's hand, edged with gold all round.

The top and the sides and the horns were all plated with the best gold; and he put an edge of gold all round it.

And he made a network of brass for the altar, under the frame round it, stretching half-way up;

And the bases of the pillars were of brass; their hooks and the bands round the tops of them were of silver; all the pillars were ringed with silver.

And the curtain for the doorway of the open space was of the best linen, with designs of blue and purple and red in needlework; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high, to go with the hangings round the sides.

All the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass.

And the bases for the open space all round and for its doorway, and all the nails for the House and for the open space.

The skirts of the robe were worked all round with fruits in blue and purple and red made of twisted linen.

And between the fruits all round the skirt they put gold bells, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

All round the skirt of the robe were bells and fruits in turn.

And put up the hangings forming the open space all round it, with the curtain over its doorway.

And he put up the hangings forming the open space round the House and the altar, and put the curtain over the doorway. So Moses made the work complete.

And the ox is to be put to death before the Lord: then Aaron's sons, the priests, are to take the blood and put some of it on and round the altar which is at the door of the Tent of meeting.

And he is to put it to death on the north side of the altar before the Lord: and Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put some of the blood on and round the altar.

And he is to put his hand on the head of his offering and put it to death at the door of the Tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put some of the blood on and round the altar.

And he is to put his hand on the head of his offering and put it to death before the Tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons are to put some of its blood on and round the altar.

And let him put his hand on the head of it and put it to death before the Tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron are to put some of its blood on and round the altar.

They are to put to death the offering for wrongdoing in the same place as the burned offering; and the priest is to put the blood on and round the altar.

Then he took Aaron's sons, clothing them with the coats, and putting the bands round them, and the head-dresses on their heads, as the Lord had given him orders.

And he put it to death; and Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar and round it with his finger, and made the altar clean, draining out the blood at the base of the altar; so he made it holy, taking away what was unclean.

And he put it to death; and Moses put some of the blood on and round the altar.

Then he took Aaron's sons, and Moses put some of the blood on the point of their right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the great toes of their right feet: and Moses put the blood on and round the altar.

And he put to death the burned offering; and Aaron's sons gave him the blood and he put some of it on and round the altar;

And he put to death the ox and the sheep, which were the peace-offerings for the people; and Aaron's sons gave him the blood and he put some of it on and round the altar;

Let him put on the holy linen coat, and the linen trousers on his body, and the linen band round him, and the linen head-dress on his head; for this is holy clothing, and before he puts them on his body is to be washed with water.

And he is to go out to the altar which is before the Lord and make it free from sin; and he is to take some of the blood of the ox and the blood of the goat and put it on the horns of the altar and round it;

The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.

But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.

But to them you are to give the care of the Tent of meeting with its vessels and everything in it: they are to take up the Tent, and be responsible for everything to do with it, and put up their tents round it.

The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every man in his tent-circle round his flag.

But the tents of the Levites are to be round the Tent of meeting, so that wrath may not come on the children of Israel: the Tent of meeting is to be in the care of the Levites.

Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, as their chief.

And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, and all the cords needed for its use.

And the pillars of the open space round it, with their bases and nails and cords.

And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, with the cords and all the things used for them; whatever is necessary for these, they are to do.

And Moses went out and gave the people the words of the Lord: and he took seventy of the responsible men of the people, placing them round the Tent.

Then the Lord sent a wind, driving little birds from the sea, so that they came down on the tents, and all round the tent-circle, about a day's journey on this side and on that, in masses about two cubits high over the face of the earth.

And all that day and all night and the day after, the people were taking up the birds; the smallest amount which anyone got was ten homers: and they put them out all round the tents.

Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites are in the valley; tomorrow, turning round, go into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea.

And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth.

Then they went on from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, going round the land of Edom: and the spirit of the people was overcome with weariness on the way.

Then Moab said to the responsible men of Midian, It is clear that this great people will be the destruction of everything round us, making a meal of us as the ox does of the grass of the field. At that time Balak, the son of Zippor, was king of Moab.

So Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and Og, king of Bashan, all the land with its towns and the country round them.

And round to the south of the slope of Akrabbim, and on to Zin: and its direction will be south of Kadesh-barnea, and it will go as far as Hazar-addar and on to Azmon:

And from Azmon it will go round to the stream of Egypt as far as the sea.

These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,

Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round.

Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.

Then we went back, journeying into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea, as the Lord had said to me: and we were a long time going round Mount Seir.

You have been journeying round this mountain long enough: now go to the north;

All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns.

Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands.

And turning round I came down from the mountain and put the stones in the ark which I had made; and there they are as the Lord gave me orders.

Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other;

When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you;

Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured;

Your towns will be shut in by his armies, till your high walls, in which you put your faith, have come down: his armies will be round your towns, through all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.

Now let all your fighting-men make a circle round the town, going all round it once. Do this for six days.

And let seven priests go before the ark with seven loud-sounding horns in their hands: on the seventh day you are to go round the town seven times, the priests blowing their horns.

So he made the ark of the Lord go all round the town once: then they went back to the tents for the night.

The second day they went all round the town once, and then went back to their tents: and so they did for six days.

Then on the seventh day they got up early, at the dawn of the day, and went round the town in the same way, but that day they went round it seven times.

And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the town had been taken by the surprise attack, and that the smoke of the town had gone up, turning round they overcame the men of Ai.

And all Israel, those who were Israelites by birth, as well as the men from other lands living with them, and their responsible men and their overseers and judges, took their places round the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, whose work it was to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement; half of them were stationed in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal, in agreement with the orders for the blessing of the children of Israel which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had given.

And the limit on the west is the edge of the Great Sea. This is the line going round the land marked out for the children of Judah, by their families.