Compass, Compasses
Compass, Compasses
kumpas, kumpas-iz: Compass, noun, is the translation of , hugh, a circle, vault or arch (when he set a compass upon the face of the depth Pro 8:27 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American), the American Standard Revised Version circle; compare Job 26:10; and see CIRCLE; VAULT OF EARTH); of , karkobh, a margin border (Exo 27:5, the compass of the altar, the Revised Version (British and American) the ledge round, so Exo 38:4); the phrase to fetch a compass is the translation of , sabhabh, to turn about, go round about (Num 34:5; Jos 15:3, the Revised Version (British and American) turn about, 2Sa 5:23; 2Ki 3:9, the Revised Version (British and American) make a circuit); of perierchomai, to go about (Act 28:13, the Revised Version (British and American) made a circuit; margin Some ancient authorities read cast loose; see CIRCUIT).
Compasses is the Revised Version (British and American) for compass, , mehughah, an instrument for describing a circle: He marketh it out with the compasses (Isa 44:13) in making an idol.
The verb to compass occurs frequently in the senses of to surround and to go round about, e.g. Gen 2:11, which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, Deu 2:1, We compassed (went around) mount Seir many days; in Jer 31:22 we have A new thing on the earth: a woman shall compass a man, the Revised Version (British and American) encompass; possibly as a suitor; but more probably as a protector. In those happy days, the protection of women (under God, Jer 31:28) will be sufficient, while the men are at their work; to encompass (The cords of death compassed me Psa 18:4; the waves of death, 2Sa 22:5). To gird (Isa 50:11 the Revised Version (British and American)); to lie around, to be laid around (Heb 5:2, compassed with infirmity (clothed with it); Heb 12:1, compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses).
In Apocrypha we have compassed about with yawning darkness (The Wisdom of Solomon 19:17); compassed the circuit of heaven (Ecclesiasticus 24:5); compassed with pomegranates of gold (Ecclesiasticus 45:9); The rainbow compasseth the heaven (Ecclesiasticus 43:12); the course of the sun (1 Esdras 4:34).