There are many ways in which God the Holy Spirit could have said corner. Regardless of the various ways kanaph is translated, it makes reference to EXTREMITIES. Some have tried to say there are four knobs, or peaks on a round Earth. The Scripture makes it quite clear that the Earth is a sphere ( Isaiah 40:22). Some have tried to ridicule the Bible to say that it teaches that the Earth is square. It is customary to divide a map into quadrants as shown by the four directions. Gonia literally means angles, or divisions. The Greek meaning is perhaps more closely related to our modern divisions known as quadrants. The Greek equivalent in Revelation 7:1 is gonia. In Ezekiel 7:2 it is translated “four corners” and again in Isaiah 11:12 “four corners.” Job 37:3 and 38:13 as “ends.” It is translated “borders” in Numbers 15:38. Kanaph is translated in a variety of ways. Perhaps no phrase in Scripture has been so controversial as the phrase, “the four corners of the earth.” The word translated “corners,” as in the phrase above, is the Hebrew word כָּנָף (transliteration: KANAPH).
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