“Hint: a circle is 2-dimensional and as “flat” as you can get.”
The original word in Hebrew just like in Job 22:14
means circuit or sphere
So, it gets translated to mean whatever you need it to ean, whenever you need it?
So, Man tainted the Bible to mean what it does not mean.....got it.
I, on the other hand, will believe that they thought the world was flat because that’s what was thought at the time.....as their pathetic understanding of the scope of “the world” was severely lacking.
I'm even less expert in Hebrew or the Bible than in genetics, but nevertheless I can't find a single instance where the word (chuwg) is translated as "sphere" or "ball" or anything of the like.
Neither do any of the commonly used Hebrew lexicons give the sense of "sphere" to this word. For instance, Strongs says:
Definition
- circle, circuit, compass
- (BDB) vault (of the heavens)
Translated Words KJV (3) - circle, 1; circuit, 1; compass, 1; NAS (3) - circle, 2; vault, 1;
Furthermore, when I looked at the issue before (sorry, don't remember the verses) I never found sphericity implied by context. Instead the earth, as to its creation or formation, is described in ways that imply flatness. For instance God draws it with a compass on the surface of the waters. He stamps, or pounds or spreads it out. Etc.
The Bible certainly might have conveyed sphericity in any number of ways. For instance, instead of saying that God spread out or pounded out the earth, it could have said that He gathered it together, or that He formed it in His hands, or that He sculpted it. It might have compared the earth to a fruit, or it's surface to the rind of a fruit. But it never does. None of the analogies or language convey sphericity.