“Come Near to” the LORD
I was working on an article a couple days ago and had to find out how many times the Hebrew verbקרב (”to draw near, approach; Hiphil - to bring”) was used in legal or ritual contexts that had to do with the Lord or the presence of the Lord. This verb lemma is common, occurring 280 times according to Westminster’s BHS 4.2. I didn’t feel like spending hours wading through the 280 occurrences to try to discern the context, so I turned to the Andersen-Forbes syntactical database. I constructed the query below, which searched for all occurrences of the lemma in clauses where there is also a movement toward a deity (as in “drew near to . . .” or “brought to . . .”). The query produced 23 results. Here is the search and some of the results.
If you have Libronix, you can download the syntax search and put it in My Documents/Libronix DLS/SyntaxQueries.
MSH @ May 23, 2008