Hebrew

Circle

חוּגStrong’s H2329

chug

Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Chug is the Hebrew word usually translated “circle of” and “circle”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.

“Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.”

Job 22:14 KJV

Meaning

Circle, circuit, compass
(BDB) vault (of the heavens)

How it's translated

and circle of 1
a circle 1
circle of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Job 1
Proverbs 1
Isaiah 1

3 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

חוּג chug · circle

1) circle, circuit, compass 2) (BDB) vault (of the heavens)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “circle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CIRCLE, noun

In geometry, a plane figure comprehended by a single curve line, called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point called the center.
In popular use, the line that comprehends the figure, the plane or surface comprehended, and the whole body or solid matter of a round substance, are denominated a circle; a ring; an orb; the earth.
Compass; circuit; as the circle of the forest.
An assembly surrounding the principal person.

All definitions and other forms of “circle”

A series ending where it begins, and perpetually repeated; a going round.
Circumlocution; indirect form of words.
In logic, an inconclusive form of argument, when the same terms are proved in orbem by the same terms, and the parts of the syllogism alternately by each other, directly and indirectly; or when the foregoing proposition is proved by the following, and the following is inferred from the foregoing; as, that heavy bodies descend by gravity, and that gravity is a quality by which a heavy body descends.
Circles of the sphere, are such as cut the mundane sphere, and have their periphery either on its movable surface, as the meridians; or in another immovable, conterminous and equidistant surface, as the ecliptic, equator, and its parallels.
Circles of altitude or almucantars, are circles parallel to the horizon, having their common pole in the zenith, and diminishing as they approach the zenith.
Circles of latitude, are great circles perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic, passing through its poles and through every star and planet.
Circles of longitude, are lesser circles parallel to the ecliptic, diminishing as they recede from it.
circle of perpetual apparition, one of the lesser circles, parallel to the equator, described by any point of the sphere touching the northern point of the horizon, and carried about with the diurnal motion.
circle of perpetual occultation, another lesser circle at a like distance from the equator, which includes all the stars which never appear in our hemisphere.
Diurnal circles, are immovable circles supposed to be described by the several stars and other points in the heavens, in their diurnal rotation round the earth, or rather in the rotation of the earth round its axis.
Horary circles, in dialing, are the lines which show the hours on dials.
Circles of the empire, the provinces or principalities of the German empire, which have a right to be present at the diets.
Druidical circles, in British Topography, are certain ancient inclosures formed by rude stones circularly arranged; as Stone-henge near Salisbury.

CIRCLE, verb transitive

To move round; to revolve round.
To encircle; to encompass; to surround; to inclose.
To circle in, to confine; to keep together.

CIRCLE, verb intransitive

To move circularly; as, the bowl circles; the circling years.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.