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( úְּ÷åּôָä , tekuphah') signifies the act of going round, as, for example, the apparent diurnal revolution of the sun around the earth (Psa_19:6); it is also used with reference to the completion of a year in the original of 2Ch_24:23; Exo_34:22 (in which passages it is rendered “end”); or of the term of pregnancy in 1Sa_1:20 (“when ... was come about”). The Scriptures, however, afford us very little information as to the astronomical knowledge of the Jews. SEE ASTRONOMY.
In Job_22:14, the Heb. word is different. SEE CIRCLE. In 1Sa_7:16, and Ecc_1:6, also, a different form of expression is used in the original to signify, in the former passage ( ñָáִá , elsewhere usually rendered “compass”), a regular tour of inspection, and in the latter ( ñָáִéá ) the periodical series of gyrations, or, rather, directions of the winds, which in the East are quite regular in their seasons. In Sir_24:5, the original word is ãῦñïò , the rotation of the heavens; but in 2Ma_6:4, it is simply ðåñßâïëïò , an enclosure, e.g. of the Temple.