KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of compass, meaning to go around, surround, enclose, or encircle.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 19:4
Complete exact-word concordance
And ten young men that bare Joab’s armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
And ten yong men that bare Ioabs armour, compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
When the waues of death compassed me: the floods of vngodly men made me afraid.
1611 marginal noteOr, pangs.
1611 marginal noteHeb. Belial.
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
The sorowes of Hell compassed me about: the snares of death preuented me.
1611 marginal noteOr, coards.
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Embraced; surrounded; inclosed; obtained; imagined.
