The term evokes a rounded, enclosing form—a circle, horizon, or vaulted dome that encompasses and orders what lies within it. In Scripture this image consistently portrays the boundary‐setting …

Apr 7, 2025 · Flat earthers claim that the use of the Hebrew word chug, for circle, in Isaiah 40:22 means that the Earth has to be a flat disk. None of them bothered to find out that chug also means sphere.

H2329 - חוּג chûwg, khoog; from ; a circle:—circle, circuit, compass.

The Hebrew word that is used in Isaiah 40:22 (חוּג, chug) does not at all imply a spherical earth. The root word only occurs in the Hebrew Bible once as a verb (Job 26:10).

The Hebrew word translated as "circle" is chuwg (or sometimes transliterated as khug). It translates the concept of something round, rounded, or dome-shaped and can be applied to a spherical shape.

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חוּג to describe a circle, to draw a circle, as with compasses. Job 26:10. (Syr. ܚܳܓ to go in a circle, ܚܘܽܓܬܐܳ a circle. Kindred roots are חָגַג and עוּג).