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Hebrew-Aramaic
H5437

Original: סבב
Transliteration: sabab (sâbab)
Phonetic: saw-bab'
BDB Definition:
  1. to turn, turn about or around or aside or back or towards, go about or around, surround, encircle, change direction
    1. (Qal)
      1. to turn, turn about, be brought round, change
      2. to march or walk around, go partly around, circle about, skirt, make a round, make a circuit, go about to, surround, encompass
    2. (Niphal)
      1. to turn oneself, close round, turn round
      2. to be turned over to
    3. (Piel) to turn about, change, transform
    4. (Poel)
      1. to encompass, surround
      2. to come about, assemble round
      3. to march, go about
      4. to enclose, envelop
    5. (Hiphil)
      1. to turn, cause to turn, turn back, reverse, bring over, turn into, bring round
      2. to cause to go around, surround, encompass
    6. (Hophal)
      1. to be turned
      2. to be surrounded
Origin: a primitive root
TWOT entry: 1456
Part(s) of speech: Verb
Strong's Definition: A primitive root; to revolve, surround or border ; used in various applications, literally and figuratively: - bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, X whirl, X round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, X circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, round), drive, environ, X on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go, stand) round about, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back).
Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:
All Occurrences
Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.(d)
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them.(c)
They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.
They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.(d)
As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:(j)
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.(g)
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.(a)
Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord ,
And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord .
Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.
How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the Lord hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.
And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.(k)
Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.


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