(n.) An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move.COMPASS; COMPASSES

kum'-pas, kum'-pas-iz: "Compass," noun, is the translation of chugh, "a circle," "vault" or "arch" ("when he set a compass upon the face of the depth" Proverbs 8:27 the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American), the American Standard Revised Version "circle"; compare Job 26:10; and see CIRCLE; VAULT OF EARTH); of karkobh, "a margin" "border" (Exodus 27:5, "the compass of the altar," the Revised Version (British and American) "the ledge round," so 38:4); the phrase "to fetch a compass" is the translation of sabhabh, "to turn about," "go round about" (Numbers 34:5 Joshua 15:3, the Revised Version (British and American) "turn about," 2 Samuel 5:23 2 Kings 3:9, the Revised Version (British and American) "make a circuit"); of perierchomai, "to go about" (Acts 28:13, the Revised Version (British and American) "made a circuit"; margin "Some ancient authorities read cast loose"; see CIRCUIT).

"Compasses" is the Revised Version (British and American) for "compass," mechughah, an instrument for describing a circle: "He marketh it out with the compasses" (Isaiah 44:13) in making an idol.

The verb "to compass" occurs frequently in the senses of "to surround" and "to go round about," e.g. Genesis 2:11, "which compasseth the whole land of Havilah," Deuteronomy 2:1, "We compassed (went around) mount Seir many days"; in Jeremiah 31:22 we have "A new thing on the earth: a woman shall compass a man," the Revised Version (British and American) "encompass"; possibly as a suitor; but more probably as a protector. In those happy days, the protection of women (under God, 31:28) will be sufficient, while the men are at their work; "to encompass" ("The cords of death compassed me" Psalm 18:4; "the waves of death," 2 Samuel 22:5). "To gird" (Isaiah 50:11 the Revised Version (British and American)); "to lie around," "to be laid around" (Hebrews 5:2, "compassed with infirmity" (clothed with it); Hebrews 12:1, "compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses").

In Apocrypha we have "compassed about with yawning darkness" (The Wisdom of Solomon 19:17); "compassed the circuit of heaven" (Ecclesiasticus 24:5); "compassed with pomegranates of gold" (Ecclesiasticus 45:9); "The rainbow compasseth the heaven" (Ecclesiasticus 43:12); the course of the sun (1 Esdras 4:34).

W. L. Walker

4230. mechugah -- a compass
... compass. From chuwg; an instrument for marking a circle, ie Compasses -- compass.
see HEBREW chuwg. 4229c, 4230. mechugah. 4231 . Strong's Numbers.
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The Usurper Eugenius Compasses the Death of Valentinian the ...
... Book V. Chapter XXV."The Usurper Eugenius compasses the Death of Valentinian
the Younger. Theodosius obtains a Victory over him. ...
/.../chapter xxv the usurper eugenius compasses.htm

Involution
... into relation with different parts of the Environment and with different things
in the Environment; and at every step of its Ascent it compasses new ranges of ...
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Love Unknowable and Known
... And until we can tell and measure by our compasses both of these two extremes of
possible human fate, till we have gone down into the deepest abyss of a ...
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Other Things, Hindrances Equally of the Soul, May have Accompanied ...
... The leg does not feel the chain when the mind is in the heavens. The mind compasses
the whole man about, and whither it wills it carries him. ...
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The Lively Stones. Rev. W. Morley Punshon.
... In our every necessity He is our "refuge and strength," in our perils He compasses
us about with songs of deliverance, his life is our perfect example, his ...
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The Charge of Worshipping a Cross the Heathens Themselves Made ...
... the body, and covers the cross within with the shape which he meant to impress upon
the clay; then from this design, with the help of compasses and leaden ...
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Wrong Derivation of the Word Theos the Name Indicative of the True ...
... Its square, angular shape, such as others had conceived it to be, he rounded off,
I suppose, with compasses, from his labouring to have it believed to be ...
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Second Tractate. The Heavenly Circuit.
... anywhere but within its scope. The dominant in a living thing is what
compasses it entirely and makes it a unity. If the Soul has ...
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Concerning the Unity of God . On the Article, I Believe in one God ...
... In like manner again the mind in the briefest moment compasses earth and sea and
all the bounds of the universe; but what it conceives in an instant, it uses ...
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The Answer to Prayer
... When a ship's captain is setting out on a {158} voyage he first of all adjusts his
compasses, corrects their divergence, and counteracts the influences which ...
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Compasses (1 Occurrence)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. COMPASS; COMPASSES. ... Multi-Version Concordance
Compasses (1 Occurrence). Isaiah 44:13 The carpenter stretches out a line. ...
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Compass (51 Occurrences)
... direction. 8. (n.) A pair of compasses. 9. (n.) A circle; a continent. 10. ...
Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. COMPASS; COMPASSES. kum ...
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Tools (3 Occurrences)
... straight-edge. The compasses of Isaiah 44:13 were for drawing circles, but
doubtless served for measuring also. See COMPASSES. Plumb ...
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Divider (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) One who, or that which, causes division. 4. (n.) An instrument for dividing
lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. ...
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Scribe (55 Occurrences)
... a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; --
so called because the workman marks, or scribe, with the compasses the line ...
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Compassed (52 Occurrences)

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Outlines (2 Occurrences)
... 44:13 The carpenter stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with a pencil; he fitteth
it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasses, and maketh it ...
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Outline (4 Occurrences)
... 44:13 The carpenter stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with a pencil; he fitteth
it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasses, and maketh it ...
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Leg (24 Occurrences)
... a leg in form or use; especially, any long and slender support on which any object
rests; as, the leg of a table; the leg of a pair of compasses or dividers. ...
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Reside (17 Occurrences)
... He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the
figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house. (WEB). ...
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