{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H5362",
  "lemma": "נָקַף",
  "transliteration": "nâqaph",
  "definition": "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.",
  "occurrences": 19,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[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"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 19:27",
      "text": "“‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edge of your beard.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/19?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 6:3",
      "text": "All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/6?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 6:11",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/6?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 7:24",
      "text": "Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The buds were in two rows…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/7?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 6:14",
      "text": "Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night and surrounded the city.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/6?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 11:8",
      "text": "You shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/11?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 10:34",
      "text": "He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=34"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 15:8",
      "text": "For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab, its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/15?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 29:1",
      "text": "Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/29?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 17:9",
      "text": "from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/17?v=9"
    }
  ],
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