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Compasses (1 Occurrence)

Isaiah 44:13 The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. 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 JPS ASV NIV)

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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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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(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.
Strong's Hebrew
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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