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
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
For thou hadst cast mee into the deepe, in the middest of the Seas, and the floods compassed me about: all thy billowes & thy waues passed ouer me.
1611 marginal noteHeb. heart.
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
The waters compassed mee about euen to the soule; the depth closed mee round about; the weedes were wrapt about my head.
1611 marginal notePsal. 69.2.
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Embraced; surrounded; inclosed; obtained; imagined.
