Word study
Within
17 Hebrew and 2 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “within”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “within” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- תָּוֶךְ tâvekmidsttranslated this way 34 times of its 379 uses · Strong’s H8432Noun · Translated: among 70, middle 31, within 30, among them 27Full study and all 361 verses →
Genesis 18:26 So the LORD replied, “If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place.”
Exodus 3:2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed.
- קֶרֶב qerebinward part, midsttranslated this way 27 times of its 213 uses · Strong’s H7130Noun · Translated: within 27, among you 18, among 16, midst 16Full study and all 211 verses →
1 Samuel 25:37 In the morning when Nabal was sober, his wife told him about these events, and his heart failed within him, and he became like a stone.
Job 20:14 yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
- שַׁעַר shaargatetranslated this way 16 times of its 362 uses · Strong’s H8179Noun · Translated: gate 195, gates 84, gateway 30, within your gates 15Full study and all 299 verses →
Deuteronomy 5:14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work— neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.
Psalm 9:14 that I may declare all Your praises — that within the gates of Daughter Zion I may rejoice in Your salvation.
- עַל alheighttranslated this way 12 times of its 4,859 uses · Strong’s H5921Preposition · Translated: on 777, over 297, in 218, against 216Full study and all 3,996 verses →
- כֹּל kôlthe whole, alltranslated this way 7 times of its 5,107 uses · Strong’s H3605Noun · Translated: all 1,589, and all 471, whole 223, every 196Full study and all 4,112 verses →
Genesis 23:17 So Ephron’s field at Machpelah near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the boundaries of the field were deeded over
- מֵעֶה mêehinternal organs, inward parts (intestines, bowels), bellytranslated this way 4 times of its 30 uses · Strong’s H4578Noun · Translated: body 4, within 4, heart 4, stomach 3Full study and all 28 verses →
Genesis 25:23 and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
Job 30:27 I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.
- עוֹד ôda going round, continuancetranslated this way 4 times of its 390 uses · Strong’s H5750Adverb · Translated: longer 80, still 63, again 52, more 38Full study and all 372 verses →
Genesis 40:13 Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.
Joshua 1:11 “Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Prepare your provisions, for within three days you will cross the Jordan to go in and take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.’”
- מִשְׁפָּחָה mishpâchâhclantranslated this way 4 times of its 285 uses · Strong’s H4940Noun · Translated: clans 135, clan 100, families 17, family 12Full study and all 217 verses →
Numbers 36:6 This is what the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they please, provided they marry within a clan of the tribe of their father.
Judges 17:7 And there was a young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah who had been residing within the clan of Judah.
- שָׁלוֹשׁ shâlôsha three, triadtranslated this way 3 times of its 383 uses · Strong’s H7969Number · Translated: three 254, third 11, thirteenth 10, thirteen 10Full study and all 342 verses →
2 Samuel 20:4 Then the king said to Amasa, “Summon the men of Judah to come to me within three days, and be here yourself.”
Ezra 10:8 Whoever failed to appear within three days would forfeit all his property, according to the counsel of the leaders and elders, and would himself be expelled from the assembly of the exiles.
- בַּיִת bayithhousetranslated this way 3 times of its 1,913 uses · Strong’s H1004Noun · Translated: house 1,132, temple 176, palace 117, household 93Full study and all 1,624 verses →
1 Kings 6:16 He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
- בֵּין bêninterval, space betweentranslated this way 3 times of its 296 uses · Strong’s H996Preposition · Translated: between 108, and 30, among 23, at 13Full study and all 230 verses →
Job 24:11 They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.
Jeremiah 48:45 “Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.
- בֶּטֶן beṭenbelly, body, wombtranslated this way 3 times of its 64 uses · Strong’s H990Noun · Translated: womb 36, belly 8, stomach 3, within 3Full study and all 64 verses →
Job 32:18 For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.
Proverbs 22:18 for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.
- שָׁנֶה shânehyeartranslated this way 3 times of its 612 uses · Strong’s H8141Noun · Translated: years 295, year 255, years old 20, two years 7Full study and all 519 verses →
- יָד yâdhandtranslated this way 2 times of its 1,403 uses · Strong’s H3027Noun · Translated: hand 664, hands 349, through 64, power 22Full study and all 1,290 verses →
Exodus 4:21 The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
- אֶחָד echâdonetranslated this way 2 times of its 855 uses · Strong’s H259Number · Translated: one 278, first 43, and one 43, a 36Full study and all 688 verses →
- עִמָּד immâdalong withtranslated this way 2 times of its 39 uses · Strong’s H5978Preposition · Translated: with me 13, me 8, to me 4, within 2Full study and all 39 verses →
Deuteronomy 32:34 “Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
Job 29:20 My glory is ever new within me, and my bow is renewed in my hand.’
- אֵת êthwithtranslated this way 2 times of its 640 uses · Strong’s H854Preposition · Translated: with 144, with you 64, with him 62, with me 35Full study and all 585 verses →
Greek words (New Testament)
- ἐν enin, on, amongtranslated this way 17 times of its 2,393 uses · Strong’s G1722Preposition · Translated: in 1,515, by 152, with 144, at 124Full study and all 1,896 verses →
- ἔσωθεν ésōthenfrom within, insidetranslated this way 4 times of its 12 uses · Strong’s G2081Adverb · Translated: inside 6, within 4, inwardly 1, sides 1Full study and all 12 verses →
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- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
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Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.