sûr´kit , "a going around": Used to represent several Hebrew words in several senses, e.g. the sun's orbit (תּקוּפה , teḳūphāh ), Psalm 19:6; the vault of the heavens (חוּג , ḥūgh ), Job 22:14 the King James Version; the circuit of the winds ( סביב , ṣābhı̄bh ), Ecclesiastes 1:6 (see ASTRONOMY ); Samuel's visiting of communities (סבב , ṣābhabh ), 1 Samuel 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" (הסב , hāṣēbh ), 2 Samuel 5:23; 2 Kings 3:9; and in the Revised Version, margin it indicates a plain (הכּכּר , ha -kikkār ), Nehemiah 3:22 . The Greek perielthóntes is translated in the same way (Acts 28:13 ), but the Revised Version, margin reads "cast loose," following the Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek reading perielóntes ̌ .
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