Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H5437: סָבַב (çâbab) Definition

Strong's number
H5437
Lemma
סָבַב
Transliteration
çâbab
Pronunciation
saw-bab'
Strong's definition
to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, [idiom] whirl, [idiom] round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, [idiom] circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, round), drive, environ, [idiom] on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go, stand) round about, inclose, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back). a primitive root;

148 instances of the word סָבַב çâbab (H5437)


  • 1 Samuel 17:30 - And he turned from him toward another and spake after the same manner him again and the people after the same manner after the same manner after the former

  • 1 Samuel 18:11 - cast And Saul the javelin for he said I will smite David even to the wall avoided out David of his presence twice

  • 1 Samuel 22:17 - said And the king unto the footmen that stood about him Turn and slay the priests of the LORD because their hand also is with David and because they knew when he fled and did not shew would it to me But the servants And the king not put forth because their hand to fall the priests of the LORD

  • 1 Samuel 22:18 - said And the king And Doeg Turn and he fell upon the priests Turn And Doeg the Edomite and he fell upon the priests and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear ephod a linen

  • 1 Samuel 22:22 - said And David unto Abiathar I knew it that day when Doeg the Edomite tell tell Saul I have occasioned the death of all the persons house of thy father's

  • 2 Chronicles 4:2 - Also he made sea a molten of ten cubits from brim from brim round in compass and five cubits the height thereof and a line of thirty cubits did compass in compass

  • 2 Chronicles 4:3 - And under it was the similitude of oxen it round about it round about which did compass ten in a cubit compassing the sea it round about Two rows of oxen were cast when it was cast

  • 2 Chronicles 6:3 - turned And the king his face and blessed and all the congregation of Israel and all the congregation of Israel stood

  • 2 Chronicles 13:13 - But Jeroboam about and the ambushment to come behind them so they were before Judah and the ambushment behind

  • 2 Chronicles 14:7 - Therefore he said unto Judah Let us build these cities and make about them walls and towers gates and bars while the land is yet before us because we have sought the LORD our God us because we have sought him and he hath given us rest on every side Let us build and prospered

  • 2 Chronicles 17:9 - And they taught in Judah and had the book of the law of the LORD with them and went about throughout all the cities in Judah And they taught the people

  • 2 Chronicles 18:31 - saw And it came to pass when the captains of the chariots Jehoshaphat that they said It is the king of Israel Therefore they compassed about him to fight cried out Jehoshaphat and the LORD helped moved him and God

  • 2 Chronicles 21:9 - went forth Then Jehoram and the captains and all his chariots with him and he rose up by night and smote the Edomites which compassed him in and the captains and all his chariots

  • 2 Chronicles 23:2 - And they went about in Judah and gathered the Levites out of all the cities in Judah and the chief of the fathers of Israel and they came to Jerusalem

  • 2 Chronicles 29:6 - have trespassed For our fathers and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God and have forsaken him and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD and turned their backs

  • 2 Chronicles 33:14 - Now after this he built a wall without cities of David on the west side of Gihon in the valley even to the entering in gate at the fish and compassed about Ophel and raised it up a very great height and put captains of war cities in all the fenced of Judah

  • 2 Chronicles 35:22 - would not turn Nevertheless Josiah his face himself that he might fight from him but disguised with him and hearkened not unto the words of Necho from the mouth of God and came himself that he might fight in the valley of Megiddo

  • 2 Chronicles 36:4 - king And the king him to Egypt made Eliakim his brother over Judah and Jerusalem and turned his name to Jehoiakim Jehoahaz his brother took And Necho and carried him to Egypt

  • 2 Kings 3:9 - So the king of Israel So the king of Judah So the king of Edom and they fetched a compass journey of seven days and there was no water for the host and for the cattle that followed

  • 2 Kings 3:25 - the cities And they beat down piece all the good of land cast every man his stone and filled all the wells of water it and they stopped trees all the good and felled left his stone only in Kirharaseth went about thereof howbeit the slingers it and smote