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).<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
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); … Continue reading “Compass, Compasses”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}