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Saturday, December 21st, 2024
the Third Week of Advent
the Third Week of Advent
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COMPASS . A ‘compass’ is the space occupied by a circle, or the circle itself: Proverbs 8:27 ‘he set a compass upon the face of the deep’ (AVm [Note: Authorized Version margin.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘a circle’) usually explained of the horizon, which seems to be a circle resting on the ocean. To ‘fetch a compass’ ( Numbers 34:5 , Jos 15:3 , 2 Samuel 5:23 , 2 Kings 3:9 ) is to make a circuit or simply ‘go round.’ The tool for making a circle is a compass ( Isaiah 44:13 ). See Arts and Crafts, § 1 .
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Compass'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/c/compass.html. 1909.
Hastings, James. Entry for 'Compass'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/c/compass.html. 1909.
