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
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Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
Who can haue compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way, for that he himselfe also is compassed with infirmitie.
1611 marginal noteOr, can reasonably beare with.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
By faith the walles of Iericho fell downe, after they were compassed about seuen dayes.
WHEREFORE seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
¶ Wherefore, seeing wee also are compassed about with so great a cloude of witnesses, let vs lay aside euery weight, & the sinne which doth so easily beset vs, and let vs runne with patience vnto the race that is set before vs,
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Embraced; surrounded; inclosed; obtained; imagined.
