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  • From: "Philip Hardy" <technologist1 AT gmx.us>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] circle
  • Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:12:47 -0400

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



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