נָקַף naqaph

Hebrew word for “to surround” · Strong’s H5362 · used 19 times in 19 verses

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Meaning

1) to go around, compass, round;

Senses in the lexicon

• to surround (17)
• to strike (2)

How it is translated

Glosses given for naqaph in context, with how often each is used:

• surrounding 2
• will surround 2
• will round off 1
• will encircle 1
• encircled 1
• surrounded 1
• had gone round 1
• has closed 1
• surround 1
• have encircled 1
• go round 1
• have surrounded 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Joshua 6 (2), Job 19 (2), Leviticus 19 (1), 1 Kings 7 (1), 2 Kings 6 (1), 2 Kings 11 (1), 2 Chronicles 4 (1), 2 Chronicles 23 (1), Job 1 (1), Psalms 17 (1)

Forms

• הקיף 2
• הקיפו 2
• תקפו 1
• הקף 1
• מקפים 1
• ויקפו 1
• והקפתם 1
• מקיפים 1
• והקיפו 1
• יקיפו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with naqaph more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• סָבַב savav “to turn” 7
• סָבִיב saviv “around” 4
• טוּר tur “row” 2
• יָצַק yatsaq “to pour” 2
• אֱלֹהַּ eloah “god” 2
• פַּעַם paam “beat” 2
• אַמָּה ammah “cubit” 2
• עֶשֶׂר eser “ten” 2
• עִיר ir “city” 3
• כְּלִי keli “article/utensil” 2
• יָם yam “sea” 2
• תַּחַת tachat “underneath” 2

Key verses

The verses using naqaph that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 19:27 — Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
• Joshua 6:3 — And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
• Job 1:5 — And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt…
• Job 19:6 — Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
• Job 19:26 — And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:
• Psalms 17:9 — From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
• Psalms 22:16 — For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
• Psalms 48:12 — Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
• Psalms 88:17 — They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
• Isaiah 10:34 — And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
• Isaiah 29:1 — Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
• Lamentations 3:5 — He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

See all 19 verses in the Word Atlas

Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.