H5437 סָבַב

סָבַב (çâbab), Strong’s H5437: to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively KJV: bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, [idiom] whirl, [idiom] round about…

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çâbab — to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively

KJV: bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, [idiom] whirl, [idiom] round about, be about on…

Occurs 157 times.

Brown–Driver–Briggs
- סָבַב vb. turn about, go around, surround
- Qal
- 1 turn, intrans.
- a march, or walk, around
- b go partly round, circle, skirt
- c make a round, or circuit, go about to
- d surround, encompass
- Niph.
- a turn oneself against, close round upon
- b turn round (from a direct course)
- c esp. of boundary: turn round from, toward
- 2 pass. be turned over to, into the power of
- Pi. to change, transform, the aspect of the matter
- Po‛.
- 1 encompass (with protection)
- 2 come about, assemble round
- 3 march or go about
- 4 enclose, envelop
- Hiph.
- a turn (trans.), cause to turn
- b bring over (i.e. to allegiance)
- c turn into, of changing name
- d = bring round, of changing name
- a cause to go around
- b surround with (acc.) wall
- c perh. also encompass (as foe)
- Hoph.
- 1 be turned, of cart wheel
- 2 surrounded, i.e. set, of jewels

Where it occurs
- Genesis 2:11 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=11) — The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
- Genesis 2:13 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=13) — The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.
- Genesis 19:4 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=4) — But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the…
- Genesis 37:7 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=7) — for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your…
- Genesis 42:24 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/42?v=24) — He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among…
- Exodus 13:18 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/13?v=18) — but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Sea of Suf; and the children of Israel went up armed…
- Numbers 21:4 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/21?v=4) — They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Sea of Suf, to go around the land of Edom. The soul of the people was…
- Numbers 32:38 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/32?v=38) — Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built.
- Numbers 34:4 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/34?v=4) — Your border shall turn about southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass along to Zin; and it shall pass southward of…
- Numbers 34:5 (https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/34?v=5) — The border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the sea.