circumference
13 occurrences across the corpus
1 Enoch
I saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the circumference of the sun and all the stars to their setting.
And first there goes forth the great luminary, named the Sun, and his circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and he is quite filled with illuminating and heating fire.
And first there goes forth the great luminary, named the Sun, and his circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and he is quite filled with illuminating and heating fire.
And her circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and her chariot in which she rides is driven by the wind, and light is given to her in (definite) measure.
And her circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and her chariot in which she rides is driven by the wind, and light is given to her in (definite) measure.
And the one half of her goes forth by a seventh part, and her whole circumference is empty, without light, with the exception of one-seventh part of it, (and) the fourteenth part of her light.
In like manner twelve doors Uriel showed me, open in the circumference of the sun's chariot in the heaven, through which the rays of the sun break forth: and from them is warmth diffused over the earth, when they are opened at their appointed seasons.
These are the two great luminaries: their circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and the size of the circumference of both is alike.
These are the two great luminaries: their circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and the size of the circumference of both is alike.
These are the two great luminaries: their circumference is like the circumference of the heaven, and the size of the circumference of both is alike.
In the circumference of the sun there are seven portions of light which are added to it more than to the moon, and in definite measures it is s transferred till the seventh portion of the sun is exhausted.
On the side whence the light of the moon comes forth, there again she wanes till all the light vanishes and all the days of the month are at an end, and her circumference is empty, void of light.
OT Pseudepigrapha
It is about forty furlongs [*1] in circumference, as far as one could conjecture.