Compact;_Compacted

COMPACT; COMPACTED kom-pakt', kom-pakt'-ed (chabhar, "to be joined"; sumbibazo, "to raise up together"):

"Compact" appears as translation of chabhar in Psalms 122:3, "Jerus .... a city that is compact together" (well built, its breaches restored, walls complete, and separate from all around it); and "compacted" (sumbibazo) occurs in the King James Version Ephesians 4:16, "fitly joined together and compacted," the Revised Version (British and American) "fitly framed and knit together." In the Revised Version (British and American) "compacted" is also the translation of sunistemi, "to set together" (2 Peter 3:5), "an earth compacted out of water and amidst (margin, through) water," which suggests the idea of water as the primary material (compare Genesis 1:2).

W. L. Walker

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'COMPACT; COMPACTED'".  "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia".  1915.