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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