Strong's #5362: naqaph (pronounced naw-kaf')

a primitive root; to strike with more or less violence (beat, fell, corrode); by implication (of attack) to knock together, i.e. surround or circulate:--compass (about, -ing), cut down, destroy, go round (about), inclose, round.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

nâqaph

1) to strike, strike off

1a) (Piel) to strike off skin

2) to go around, compass, round

2a) (Qal) to go around

2b) (Hiphil)

2b1) to go around, surround, encompass, enclose

2b2) to make the round, complete the circuit

2b3) to make round, round off

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 1415, 1416

Usage:

This word is used 19 times:

 

Leviticus 19:27: "Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners"
Joshua 6:3: "all ye men of war, and go round about the city once."
Joshua 6:11: "compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp,"
1 Kings 7:24: "there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about:"
2 Kings 6:14: "host: and they came by night, and compassed the city"
2 Kings 11:8: " And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand: and he that cometh"
2 Chronicles 4:3: "it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about."
2 Chronicles 23:7: "And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand;"
Job 1:5: "so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early"
Job 19:6: "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: "that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about."
Psalms 22:16: "have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet."
Psalms 48:12: "Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers"
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 15:8: "For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto"
Isaiah 29:1: "ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices."
Lamentations 3:5: "He hath built against me, and compassed me with gall and travail."