Verb epikeimai (to press in, to lie on) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Luke

5: 1Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing in (epikeimai) on him to hear the word of God,
23: 23But they kept pressing in (epikeimai) with loud shouts that he should be crucified; and their voices prevailed.

John

11: 38Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying on (epikeimai) it.
21: 9When they had gone ashore, they saw a charcoal fire there, with fish lying on (epikeimai) it, and bread.

Acts

27: 20When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest was pressing in (epikeimai), all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.