Circuit

Circuit denotes a circular or recurring path in biblical usage, most vividly in the description of the sun's daily course in Psalm 19:6, where its going forth is from one end of heaven and its circuit to the other end. The image captures the ancient phenomenological view of the heavens as a dome through which the sun moves on a fixed track, returning to its starting point each day — a description of observation rather than cosmology.

Ecclesiastes uses the same concept for the wind (Ecclesiastes 1:6), which goes south then turns north, whirling continually and returning on its circuits — part of the Preacher's meditation on the repetitive cycles of nature that persist while generations of men pass away. In Job 22:14, God's circuit of heaven refers to the vault of the sky as the boundary of his dwelling from which he surveys creation. Samuel also made a yearly circuit through Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah to judge Israel (1 Samuel 7:16).