Circuit
Circuit
(, tekuphah’) signifies the act of going round, as, for example, the apparent diurnal revolution of the sun around the earth (Psa 19:6); it is also used with reference to the completion of a year in the original of 2Ch 24:23; Exo 34:22 (in which passages it is rendered end); or of the term of pregnancy in 1Sa 1:20 (when … was come about). The Scriptures, however, afford us very little information as to the astronomical knowledge of the Jews. SEE ASTRONOMY.
In Job 22:14, the Heb. word is different. SEE CIRCLE. In 1Sa 7:16, and Ecc 1:6, also, a different form of expression is used in the original to signify, in the former passage (, elsewhere usually rendered compass), a regular tour of inspection, and in the latter () the periodical series of gyrations, or, rather, directions of the winds, which in the East are quite regular in their seasons. In Sir 24:5, the original word is , the rotation of the heavens; but in 2Ma 6:4, it is simply , an enclosure, e.g. of the Temple.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Circuit (2)
In the Methodist Episcopal Church, a single church, supplied by a pastor, is called a station; but when two or more appointments, within a definite territory, are united into one charge, under one or more ministers, it is called a circuit. The English minutes of 1746 give the first intimation of definite circuits, though it is supposed they existed before. All England was mapped into seven of these itinerant districts. In America the circuit system was universal in the beginning of Methodism, and it is still widely in use in rural districts and in the Western States. Stevens, History of Methodism, 1, 318. SEE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Circuit
the apparent diurnal revolution of the sun round the earth (Ps. 19:6), and the changes of the wind (Eccl. 1:6). In Job 22:14, “in the circuit of heaven” (R.V. marg., “on the vault of heaven”) means the “arch of heaven,” which See ms to be bent over our heads.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Circuit
CIRCUIT occurs 4 times in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] : 1Sa 7:16 (a late and doubtful passage, acc. to which Samuel went on circuit to various high places), Job 22:14 (RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] and Amer. RV [Note: Revised Version.] vault, i.e. the vault of heaven), Psa 19:6 (of the suns course in the heavens), Ecc 1:8 (of the circuits of the wind). Besides retaining these instances, RV [Note: Revised Version.] substitutes made [make] a circuit for AV [Note: Authorized Version.] fetch a compass in 2Sa 5:23, 2Ki 3:9, Act 28:13. See Compass.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Circuit
surkit, a going around: Used to represent several Hebrew words in several senses, e.g. the sun’s orbit (, tekuphah), Psa 19:6; the vault of the heavens (, hugh), Job 22:14 the King James Version; the circuit of the winds (, sabhbh), Ecc 1:6 (see ASTRONOMY); Samuel’s visiting of communities (, sabhabh), 1Sa 7:16. In the Revised Version (British and American) the idea of encircling or fetching a compass (the King James Version) is expressed by the phrase to make a circuit (, hasebh), 2Sa 5:23; 2Ki 3:9; and in the Revised Version, margin it indicates a plain (, ha-kikkar), Neh 3:22. The Greek perielthontes is translated in the same way (Act 28:13), but the Revised Version, margin reads cast loose, following the Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek reading perielontes.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Circuit
“to go about” (peri, “about,” erchomai, “to go”), is said of “navigating a ship under difficulty owing to contrary winds,” Act 28:13, RV, “we made a circuit,” for AV, “we fetched a compass.” See COMPASS, STROLLING, WANDER.