Circuit

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Psalm 19:6Ecclesiastes 1:6Job 22:14

Holman Bible Dictionary

1 Samuel 7:16Job 22:14Psalm 19:6Ecclesiastes 1:61 Chronicles 11:8 Nehemiah 12:28 2 Kings 3:9

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

CIRCUIT occurs 4 times in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] : 1 Samuel 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), Psalms 19:6 (of the sun’s course in the heavens), Ecclesiastes 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 2 Samuel 5:23 , 2 Kings 3:9 , Acts 28:13 . See Compass.

King James Dictionary

CIRCUIT, n.

1. The act of moving or passing round as the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun, or of the moon round the earth.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Περιέρχομαι (Strong'S #4022 — Verb — perierchomai — per-ee-er'-khom-ahee )

"to go about" (peri, "about," erchomai, "to go"), is said of "navigating a ship under difficulty owing to contrary winds," Acts 28:13 , RV, "we made a circuit," for AV, "we fetched a compass." See Compass , Strolling , Wander.

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.

(2):

(n.) That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.

(3):

(n.) The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.

(4):

(n.) The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.

(5):

(n.) A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

(6):

(n.) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.

(7):

(n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.

(8):

(n.) Circumlocution.

(9):

(v. i.) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.

(10):

(v. t.) To travel around.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

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 ̌ .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(תְּקוּפָה, tekuphah') signifies the act of going round, as, for example, the apparent diurnal revolution of the sun around the earth (Psalms 19:6); it is also used with reference to the completion of a year in the original of 2 Chronicles 24:23; Exodus 34:22 (in which passages it is rendered "end"); or of the term of pregnancy in 1 Samuel 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 1 Samuel 7:16, and Ecclesiastes 1:6, also, a different form of expression is used in the original to signify, in the former passage (סָבִב, elsewhere usually rendered "compass"), a regular tour of inspection, and in the latter (סָבִיב ) the periodical series of gyrations, or, rather, directions of the winds, which in the East are quite regular in their seasons. In Sirach 24:5, the original word is γῦρος, the rotation of the heavens; but in 2 Maccabees 6:4, it is simply περίβολος, an enclosure, e.g. of the Temple.