# H5362 נָקַף

נָקַף (nâqaph), Strong’s H5362: 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…

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*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.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/19?v=27) — “‘You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your head or clip off the edge of your beard.
- [Joshua 6:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/6?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/6?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/7?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/6?v=14) — Therefore he sent horses, chariots, and a great army there. They came by night and surrounded the city.
- [2 Kings 11:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/11?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=34) — He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
- [Isaiah 15:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/15?v=8) — For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab, its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.
- [Isaiah 29:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/29?v=1) — Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;
- [Psalms 17:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/17?v=9) — from the wicked who oppress me, my deadly enemies, who surround me.