Genesis 19:4
But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
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Revelation 7:11
And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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עָגֹל
ʻâgôl · aw-gole'
6 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
circular
Strong's KJV usage: round.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 7:23Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 4:2
Open full H5696 profile →סָבַב
çâbab · saw-bab'
2 times translated as this KJV form162 total Strong's occurrences
to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, × whirl, × round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, × circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, round), drive, environ, × on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go, stand) round about, inclose, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 19:4Strong's last: Joshua 7:9
Open full H5437 profile →περικυκλόω
perikyklóō · per-ee-koo-klo'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to encircle all around, i.e. blockade completely
Strong's KJV usage: :--compass round.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 19:43Strong's last: Luke 19:43
Open full G4033 profile →περιτίθημι
peritíthēmi · per-ee-tith'-ay-mee
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to place around; by implication, to present
Strong's KJV usage: :--bestow upon, hedge round about, put about (on, upon), set about.
Strong's first: Matthew 21:33Strong's last: Matthew 21:33
Open full G4060 profile →כָּתַר
kâthar · kaw-thar'
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to enclose; hence (in a friendly sense) to crown, (in a hostile one) to besiege; also to wait (as restraining oneself)
Strong's KJV usage: beset round, compass about, be crowned, inclose round, suffer.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 22:12Strong's last: Psalms 22:12
Open full H3803 profile →נָקַף
nâqaph · naw-kaf'
1 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
to strike with more or less violence (beat, fell, corrode); by implication (of attack) to knock together, i.e. surround or circulate
Strong's KJV usage: compass (about, -ing), cut down, destroy, go round (about), inclose, round.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 19:27Strong's last: Leviticus 19:27
Open full H5362 profile →סַהַר
çahar · cah'-har
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
roundness
Strong's KJV usage: round.
Strong's first: Song of Solomon 7:2Strong's last: Song of Solomon 7:2
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And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.
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I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.
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And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.
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And the doors of the side chambers were toward the place that was left, one door toward the north, and another door toward the south: and the breadth of the place that was left was five cubits round about.
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Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.
no direct Strong's tag
The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
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The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
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To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
no direct Strong's tag
So that the face of a man was toward the palm tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm tree on the other side: it was made through all the house round about.
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Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth toward the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.
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He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
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He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
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He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
no direct Strong's tag
This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
no direct Strong's tag
And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
no direct Strong's tag
And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.
no direct Strong's tag
Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.
no direct Strong's tag
Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.
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Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.
no direct Strong's tag
And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.
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And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.
no direct Strong's tag
And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.
no direct Strong's tag
It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
no direct Strong's tag
Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.
no direct Strong's tag
Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
English meaning and historical usage.
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round
ROUND, adjective
1. Cylindrical; circular; spherical or globular. round is applicable to a cylinder as well as to a globe or sphere. We say, the barrel of a musket is round; a ball is round; a circle is round
2. Full; large; as a round sum or price.
3. Full; smooth; flowing; not defective or abrupt.
In his satires, Horace is quick, round and pleasant.
His style, though round and comprehensive -
4. Plain; open; candid; fair.
ROUND dealing is the honor of man's nature.
Let her be round with him.
5. Full; quick; brisk; as a round trot.
6. Full; plump; bold; positive; as a round assertion.
A round number, is a number that ends with a cipher, and may be divided by 10 without a remainder; a complete or full number. It is remarkable that the W. cant, a hundred, the Latin centum, and Sax. hund, signify properly a circle, and this use of round may have originated in a like idea.
ROUND, noun
1. A circle; a circular thing, or a circle in motion.
With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads.
Knit your hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round
2. Action or performance in a circle, or passing through a series of hands or things and coming to the point of beginning; or the time of such action.
Women to cards may be compared; we play a round or two; when used, we throw away.
The feast was serv'd; the bowl was crown'd; to the king's pleasure went the mirthful round
So we say, a round of labors or duties.
We run the daily round
3. Rotation in office; succession in vicissitude.
4. A rundle; the step of a ladder.
All the rounds like Jacob's ladder rise.
5. A walk performed by a guard or an officer round the rampart of a garrison, or among sentinels, to see that the sentinels are faithful and all things safe. Hence the officer and men who perform this duty are called the rounds.
6. A dance; a song; a roundelay, or a species of fugue.
7. A general discharge of fire-arms by a body of troops, in which each soldier fires once. In volleys, it is usual for a company or regiment to fire three rounds.
A round of cartridges and balls, one cartridge to each man; as, to supply a regiment with a single round or with twelve rounds of cartridges.
ROUND, adverb
1. On all sides.
Thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round Luke 19:43.
2. Circularly; in a circular form; as, a wheel turns round
3. From one side or party to another; as, to come or turn round Hence these expressions signify to change sides or opinions.
4. Not in a direct line; by a course longer than the direct course. The shortest course is not the best; let us go round
All round in common speech, denotes over the whole place, or in every direction.
ROUND about is tautological.
ROUND, preposition
1. On every side of; as, the people stood round him; the sun sheds light round the earth. In this sense, around is much used, and all is often used to modify the word. They stood all round or around him.
2. About; in a circular course, or in all parts; as, to go round the city. He led his guest round his fields and garden. he wanders round the world.
3. Circularly; about; as, to wind a cable round the windlass.
To come or get round one, in popular language, is to gain advantage over one by flattery or deception; to circumvent.
ROUND, verb transitive
1. To make circular, spherical or cylindrical; as, to round a silver coin; to round the edges of any thing.
Worms with many feet, that round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber.
2. To surround; to encircle; to encompass.
Th' inclusive verge of golden metal that must round my brow.
Our little life is rounded with a sleep.
3. To form to the arch or figure of the section of a circle.
The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to very great perfection.
4. To move about any thing; as, the sun, in polar regions, rounds the horizon.
5. To make full, smooth and flowing; as, to round periods in writing.
To round in, among seamen, to pull upon a slack rope, which passes through one or more blocks in a direction nearly horizontal.
ROUND, verb intransitive
1. To grow or become round
The queen, your mother, rounds space.
2. To go round as a guard.
- They nightly rounding walk.
To round to, in sailing, is to turn the head of the ship towards the wind.
ROUND, verb intransitive To whisper; as, to round in the ear. obsolete
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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