Lexicon
תְּקוּפָה
te.qu.phah
H8622
H:N-F Hebrew

circuit

4
Occurrences
4
Books
Hebrew
Language

te.qu.phah denotes a recurring or turning point in a span of days or a year, including a festival setting.

The attested uses place te.qu.phah at recurring or turning points in time: the course of days surrounding Hannah's conception, the turning of the year, and the year’s festival setting. Psalm 19:7 contains the noun in construct form, but the translation does not make its particular contribution clear.

Senses in use

  1. Recurring or turning point in time · dominant

    In 1 Samuel 1:20 the plural construct form occurs in the clause about Hannah conceiving and bearing a son; the APB renders the setting as "In the circuit of the days." In 2 Chronicles 24:23 the singular construct form marks the time when Aram's army came up, rendered "At the turn of the year," while Exodus 34:22 places the Feast of Ingathering in relation to the year, rendered "at the circuit of the year."

  2. Unclear contribution in Psalm 19:7 · rare

    In Psalm 19:7 the singular construct form is present, but the supplied APB rendering—"The instruction of the LORD is perfect, restoring the soul"—does not isolate how the noun contributes to the clause. Its use is therefore retained at the observed time-cycle level without a finer distinction.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the time-setting occurrences with "circuit of the days," "turn of the year," and "circuit of the year." In Psalm 19:7, the translation does not visibly represent the term's specific contribution.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture