Circle
Circle
(, chug), any part of a curve, an arch. The word is applied (Job 22:14, where, however, it is translated circuit) to the heavens, which the ancients supposed to be a hollow sphere. They imagined that the sky was solid, and extended like an arch over the earth. The word is also referred to the earth in Isa 40:22, and to the surface of the ocean in Pro 8:27, where it is rendered compass; in both which passages it still seems to mean the celestial vault, as spanning these. In Wisdom of Solomon 13:2, the Greek term is so rendered, with reference to the path of the stars. SEE CIRCUIT.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Circle
surk’l: Is used with reference to the vault of the heavens (, hugh) in Isa 40:22, and in a similar sense in The Wisdom of Solomon 13:2 (Revised Version margin), circle of stars ( , kuklos astron). It is also used in the sense of surrounding territory, as in the expression circle of Jordan (Gen 13:10 the Revised Version, margin). See also CICCAR; ASTRONOMY, III, 1.