The King James Bible speaks of the earth in more than one way. God “sitteth upon the circle of the earth” (Isaiah 40:22) and “hangeth the earth upon nothing” (Job 26:7), and the same books speak of its foundations, its pillars and “the four corners of the earth” (Isaiah 11:12). The Hebrew noun behind “circle” in Isaiah 40:22 is chug. The same noun is translated “circuit” in Job 22:14 and “compass” in Proverbs 8:27. The Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon defines it as…
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