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Encircle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. ensur'cl. [from circle.]

2. To inclose or surround with a circle or ring, or with any thing in a circular form.

3. To encompass; to surround; to environ.

4. To embrace; as, to encircle one in the arms.

Encircle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city.

Encircled [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Surrounded with a circle; encompassed; environed; embraced.

Encircled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Encirclet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A circle; a ring.

Encirclet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small circle; a ring.

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1 Kings 7:24

And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.

Below the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

2 Chronicles 4:3

And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.

Below the rim, figures of oxen encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

Psalms 22:12

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

Psalms 22:16

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.

Psalms 48:12

Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,

Psalms 55:10

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.

Song of Solomon 7:2

Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

Your navel is a rounded goblet; it never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by the lilies.

Revelation 4:3

And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

The One seated there looked like jasper and carnelian, and a rainbow that gleamed like an emerald encircled the throne.

Revelation 5:6

And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

Then I saw a Lamb who appeared to have been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.