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about

Meaning of “about”

1. Around or near in place, position, or movement; on every side, in a circuit, from place to place, or turned from one direction or state toward another. 2. Approximately in number, measure, distance, or time. 3. Concerning, occupied with, or engaged in a matter. 4. On the point of, intending, or attempting an action.

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First occurrence: Genesis 23:17

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Ezekiel 40:43
And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 40:43 · retained source text

And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about, and vpon the tables was the flesh of the offering.

1611 marginal noteOr, andirons or the two harthstones.

Ezekiel 41:5
After he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 41:5 · retained source text

After he measured the wall of the house sixe cubites, and the bredth of euerie side-chamber foure cubites round about the house on euery side.

Ezekiel 41:6
And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 41:6 · retained source text

And the side-chambers were three, one ouer an other, and thirtie in order, and they entred into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might haue hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.

1611 marginal noteHeb. side-chamber ouer side-chamber.

1611 marginal noteOr, three and thirty times, or foot.

1611 marginal noteHeb. be holden.

Ezekiel 41:7
And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.
3 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 41:7 · retained source text

And there was an enlarging and a winding about still vpward to the side-chambers, for the winding about of the house went still vpward round about the house: therefore the bredth of the house was still vpward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the middest.

1611 marginal noteHeb. it was made broader and went round.

Ezekiel 41:8
I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 41:8 · retained source text

I saw also the height of the house round about; the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reede of sixe great cubites.

Ezekiel 41:11
And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 41:11 · retained source text

And the doores of the side-chambers were toward the place that was left, one doore toward the North, and an other doore toward the South, and the bredth of the place that was left, was fiue cubites round about.

Ezekiel 41:12
Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 41:12 · retained source text

Now the building that was before the seperate place, at the end toward the West, was seuenty cubites broad, and the wall of the building was fiue cubites thicke round about, and the length thereof ninety cubites.

Ezekiel 41:16
The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 41:16 · retained source text

The doore-posts and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, ouer against the doore sieled with wood round about, and from the ground vp to the windows, & the windows were couered.

1611 marginal noteHeb. sieling of wood.

1611 marginal noteOr, and the ground vnto the windowes.

Ezekiel 41:17
To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 41:17 · retained source text

To that aboue the doore, euen vnto the inner house and without, and by all the wall round about within and without by measure.

1611 marginal noteHeb. measures.

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