KJV dictionary & concordance
Present-participial or verbal-noun 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: 1 Kings 7:24
Complete exact-word concordance
And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
And vnder the brimme of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubite, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rowes, when it was cast.
1611 marginal note2.Chron. 4.3.
And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.
And vnder it was the similitude of oxen, which did compasse it round about: tenne in a cubite compassing the Sea round about. Two rowes of oxen were cast, when it was cast.
1611 marginal note1.King. 7.24.
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