Hebrew word study

נָקַףnâqaph — to strike with more or less violence (beat, fell, corrode)

Pronounced “naw-kaf'”

to strike with more or less violence (beat, fell, corrode); by implication (of attack) to knock together, i.e. surround or circulate

Translated in the King James as: compass (about, -ing), cut down, destroy, go round (about), inclose, round.

Appears 19 times in Scripture

Origin: a primitive root;

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Where it appears

Leviticus — 1×
Leviticus 19:27
Joshua — 2×
Joshua 6:3Joshua 6:11
1 Kings — 1×
1 Ki 7:24
2 Kings — 2×
2 Ki 6:142 Ki 11:8
2 Chronicles — 2×
2 Chr 4:32 Chr 23:7
Job — 3×
Job 1:5Job 19:6Job 19:26
Psalms — 4×
Psalms 17:9Psalms 22:16Psalms 48:12Psalms 88:17
Isaiah — 3×
Isaiah 10:34Isaiah 15:8Isaiah 29:1
Lamentations — 1×
Lam 3:5

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