some view as an improper prep., followed by gen. or dat., near, as to place, Lk. 19:11; close at hand, Rom. 10:8; near, in respect of ready interposition, Phil. 4:5; near, as to time, Mt.

a guarantee, sponsor, Heb. 7:22*

to engrave, inscribe, Lk. 10:20; met. ἐγγεγραμμένος, imprinted, 2 Cor. 3:2, 3*

pr. to cause to approach; in NT intrans. to approach, draw near, Mt. 21:1; Lk. 18:35; met. to be at hand, Mt. 3:2; 4:17; μέχρι θανάτου ἐγγιζειν, to be at the point of death, Phil.

in Hebrew, or Aramaic, Jn. 5:2; 19:13, 17, 20; 20:16; Rev. 9:11; 16:16*

the Hebrew, dialect, i.e., the Hebrew-Aramaic dialect of Palestine, Acts 21:40; 22:2; 26:14*

a Hebrew, one descended from Abraham the Hebrew, 2 Cor. 11:22; Phil. 3:5; in NT, a Jew of Palestine, one speaking Aramaic, opp. to Ἑλληνιστής, Acts 6:1*

Heber, pr. name, indecl., Lk. 3:35*