to encircle, surround, encompass, come around., Jn. 10:24; Acts 14:20; spc. to lay siege to, Lk. 21:20; to march round, Heb. 11:30*

all around, round about, Rev. 4:3, 4, 8*

to encircle, surround, encompass, Rev. 20:9*

a pilot, helmsman, Acts 27:11; Rev. 18:17*

government, office of a governor, or director; meton. a director, 1 Cor. 12:28*

also spelled κυβια, pr. dice playing; met. craftiness, trickery, Eph. 4:14*

a founder;, in NT a creator, 1 Pet. 4:19*

pr. a thing founded; in NT a created being, creature, 1 Tim. 4:4; Jas. 1:18; Rev. 5:13; 8:9*

(1) pr. a framing, founding; (2) in NT creation, the act of creating, Rom. 1:20; creation, the material universe, Mk. 10:6; 13:19; Heb. 9:11; 2 Pet. 3:4; a created thing, a creature, Rom. 1:25; 8:39; Col.

pr. to reduce from a state of disorder and wildness; in NT to call into being, to create, Mk. 13:19; to call into individual existence, to frame, Eph.