Strong's #661: 'aphaph (pronounced aw-faf')

a primitive root; to surround:--compass.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'âphaph

1) to surround, encompass

1a) (Qal) to encompass

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

2 Samuel 22:5: "When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;"
Psalms 18:4: "The sorrows of death compassed of ungodly men made me afraid."
Psalms 40:12: "For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities"
Psalms 116:3: "The sorrows of death compassed of hell got hold upon me: I found trouble"
Jonah 2:5: "The waters compassed me about, even to the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped"