H5362 נָקַף
nâqaph — to strike with more or less violence (beat, fell, corrode); by implication (of attack) to knock together, i.e. surround or circulate
KJV: compass (about, -ing), cut down, destroy, go round (about), inclose, round.
Occurs 19 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [נָקַף] vb. go around (intrans.)
- Qal let feasts go around
- Hiph.
- 1 go around, surround, encompass
- 2 make the round, i.e. complete the circuit
- 3 make round, round off (lit.)
- נָקַף vb
- [נָקַף] vb. strike off
- Niph. and the thickets of the forest shall be struck away
- Pi. after my skin, which they have struck off
Where it occurs
- Leviticus 19:27 — “‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edge of your beard.
- Joshua 6:3 — All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.
- Joshua 6:11 — So he caused the LORD’s ark to go around the city, circling it once. Then they came into the camp, and stayed in the…
- 1 Kings 7:24 — Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The buds were in two rows…
- 2 Kings 6:14 — Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night and surrounded the city.
- 2 Kings 11:8 — You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be…
- Isaiah 10:34 — He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
- Isaiah 15:8 — For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab, its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.
- Isaiah 29:1 — Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;
- Psalms 17:9 — from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.