Circuit
תְּקוּפָהStrong’s H8622tequphah (te-qu-phah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tequphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “circuit of” and “circuit its”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.”
Meaning
- Coming round, circuit of time or space, a turning, circuitat the circuit (as adverb)
How it's translated
- to circuit of 2
- circuit of 1
- and circuit its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 1:20Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 24:23And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.
- Psalms 19:6His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Hebrew dictionary
תְּקוּפָה tequphah · circuit
1) coming round, circuit of time or space, a turning, circuit 1a) at the circuit (as adverb)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “circuit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CIRCUIT, noun
- The act of moving or passing round; as the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun, or of the moon round the earth.
- The space inclosed in a circle, or within certain limits.
- Any space or extent measured by traveling round.
- That which encircles; a ring; a diadem.
All definitions and other forms of “circuit”
- In England, the journey of judges through several counties or boroughs, for the purpose of holding courts.
- The counties or states in which the same judge or judges hold courts and administer justice.
- A long deduction of reason.
- In law, a longer course of proceedings than is necessary to recover the thing sued for.
CIRCUIT, verb intransitive
To move in a circle; to go round.
CIRCUIT, verb transitive
To move or go round.
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.