Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Philip Hardy" <technologist1 AT gmx.us>]

You said one more post each on this subject. So according to the "Online 
Etymology Dictionary", (http://www.etymonline.com http://www.etymonline.com/ 
), in the 14 th century, one possible meaning of the word circle meant, "to 
shape like a globe,". So Is it that when the KJV interpreters used the phrase 
"...circle of the earth" they believed the Hebrew word or Phrase they were 
translating meant "to shape like a globe". Just something to muse upon.

 Definition below from the "Online Etymology Dictionary", 
(http://www.etymonline.com http://www.etymonline.com/ )

 circle (v.) 
 late 14c., cerclen, "to shape like a globe," also "to encompass or 
surround," from circle (n.). From c.1400 as "to set in a circular pattern." 
Related: Circled; circling.

 Philip Hardy