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I've done a bit of looking into Strong's Concordance for the King James version:

Isa 40:22
[It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in

I've underlined the word word for "circle" [chuwg] (Strong's 02329). Here are the only other verses that use the same word, none of which implies a "sphere":

Job 22:14
Thick clouds [are] a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
Pro 8:27
When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth

Word Search Results for "sphere" -- NONE

Word Search Results for "ball " [duwr] (Strong's 01754). Here are all verses that use the word for "ball" [NOTE: Two are in the same book as the "circle of the earth" passage, so the author of Isaiah had both words at his disposal]:

Isa 22:18
He will surely violently turn and toss thee [like] a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory [shall be] the shame of thy lord's house.
Isa 29:3
And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.
Eze 24:5
Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, [and] make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.
[The Hebrew lexicon gives this meaning as "a burning pile, a round heap of wood"]

That's some interesting stuff.

The thing that I still don't understand is the mindset that says to ignore the most logical and consistent explanation of the text (i.e., that writers in the ancient Levant held beliefs that the earth was flat; a cosmological view one would expect from a people living at that time and place) in favor of an ad hoc and strained explanation.

Same thing with literal reading of Genesis, where you get the most ridiculous and impossible Rube-Goldberg-type explanations offered to justify the text ("vapor canopy," etc.).

Does it come down to the fact that they must figure out some way that the text is literally and absolute true, regardless of how bizarre and unsupportable?