At Isaiah 40:22 the Hebrew word chugh here translated as "circle" may also be rendered as "sphere." (A Concordance of the Hebrew and Chaldee Scriptures, by B. Davidson)
Unfortunately for you, "chugh" wasn't used to mean sphere anywhere in the bible.
The Circle of the Earth: Translation and Meaning in Isaiah 40:22
"The Circle of the Earth"
Translation and Meaning in Isaiah 40:22
Dennis Bratcher
Isaiah 40:22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in;
Some people, for various reasons, take "the circle of the earth" in Isaiah 40:22 to be a reference to a spherical earth. This would mean that the ancient Israelites of the eighth century BC knew that the earth was spherical and not flat. This perspective shows up in arguments from both Young Earth Creationists -1- and from those wanting to argue an absolutely literal reading of the biblical text, usually to support the idea that God revealed modern scientific facts and data to the ancient Israelites.
Engaging those perspectives might prove helpful to many Christians trying to take seriously both the scientific world in which they live and the perspectives of Scripture that come from a world three to two millennia in the past. However before we can begin to engage that discussion, we must come to terms with what the Bible actually says and means, especially within the context of Ancient Near Eastern culture.
It is important at least to consider and try to understand what the Bible says on the level of language and meaning before one jumps to taking single words out of a context to make an apologetic case for a notion or a doctrine. Simply working from a favorite translation that uses certain English words to which we then apply meaning in relation to our modern perspectives, knowledge, and world-view (how we understand the physical world to work) is not good enough. We must try to hear the Biblical text against the background, the literary, cultural and historical milieus, from which it was written.
The Hebrew word that is used in Isaiah 40:22 (חוּג, chug) does not at all imply a spherical earth. The root word only occurs in the Hebrew Bible once as a verb (Job 26:10). In nominal forms, the same root occurs four times, three as the noun חוּג (chug; Job 22:14, Prov 8:27, Isa 40:22), and once as the noun מְחוּגׇה (mechugah; Isa 44:13). This term refers to a "circle instrument," a device used to make a circle, what we call a compass.
Isaiah 44:13 refers to this "circle instrument."
Isa 44:13 The carpenter stretches a line, marks it out with a stylus, fashions it with planes, and marks it with a compass; he makes it in human form, with human beauty, to be set up in a shrine. [NIV]
But what's more important is, anyone who knows that the object is a sphere, knows that no matter what angle you're looking from, that object itself remains to be the shape of a sphere and not a circle. So, again, was God that ignorant of geometric objects that he thought the earth and changed shape from a sphere to a circle?Interestingly, only a spherical object appears as a circle from every angle of view.
Hahaha.But a flat disk would more often appear as an ellipse, not a circle. Go look at the flat earth picture that you posted prior. It shows an ellipse, not a circle.
Apparently, you're so desperate to get out of your hole that you're willing to do anything, even at the risk of burying yourself. Okay then.
Because you can't defend your argument, you decided to attack, not my points that I raised, but the illustrated picture that I posted up? What did you think you were going to achieve by attacking a picture that I posted up that wasn't even intended to be an accurate depiction of what the flat earthers believe the earth supposed to look like?
It was entertaining and I had fun, but it's time to put the final nail in your coffin and bury your claim for good. This is what you initially claimed....
Apparently, since the bible was authored by God himself, it resulted in a book that was so accurate, it depicted the earth as being a circle or a sphere. Your exact words are quoted below.The Bible is different from any other book in that it's Author is God. (1 Thessalonians 2:13) (2 Peter 1:21) The result is a book that is accurate.
The shape of the earth, as revealed by God to the prophet Isaiah, is indeed a circle or sphere.
Sorry to have to break the news for you but your God proved that he was wrong. I'll use the same evidence as you did, the bible. So your God is omniscient and yet, he didn't know that the earth is not a sphere, instead it's sphereroid in shape.
What a big fail. But don't worry, look at the bright side, you were able to prove and finally put an end to the debate on whether or not the bible is infallible. The bible is infallible because it gave a wrong depiction of what the actual shaps of the earth is. Congratulations for your work on proving that the bible is infallible.