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  #5437 סָבַב cabab {saw-bab'}

 a primitive root; TWOT - 1456; v

—Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)


 1) to turn, turn about or around or aside or back or towards, go about or around,
    surround, encircle, change direction
    1a) (Qal)
        1a1) to turn, turn about, be brought round, change
        1a2) to march or walk around, go partly around, circle about,
             skirt, make a round, make a circuit, go about to, surround,
             encompass
    1b) (Niphal)
        1b1) to turn oneself, close round, turn round
        1b2) to be turned over to
    1c) (Piel) to turn about, change, transform
    1d) (Poel)
        1d1) to encompass, surround
        1d2) to come about, assemble round
        1d3) to march, go about
        1d4) to enclose, envelop
    1e) (Hiphil)
        1e1) to turn, cause to turn, turn back, reverse, bring over,
             turn into, bring round
        1e2) to cause to go around, surround, encompass
    1f) (Hophal)
        1f1) to be turned
        1f2) to be surrounded

—Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)

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).

—Strong's (Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary of the Old Testament)

#5437.
סָבַב
sabab (685b); a prim. root; to turn about, go around, surround:—
NASB - about(2), all around(1), around(2), around*(1), away*(1), bring back(1), bring...over(1), brought(2), brought around(2), brought about(1), change(1), changed(5), circle around(2), circled(2), circled around(1), circling(1), circuit(1), circumference*(3), come around(1), completely*(1), directed(1), driven(1), encircled(2), encircling(1), encompass(2), engulfed(2), escaped(1), faced*(2), flows around(2), form(1), gathered around(2), go about(3), go around(4), led around(2), made a circuit(1), make the rounds(2), march around(3), marched around(3), measured the circumference(1), opened(1), removed(2), returned(1), set(3), set*(1), sit(1), surround(7), surrounded(18), surrounding(2), surrounds(2), swinging(1), swirling(1), taken around(1), transferred(2), turn(13), turn around(2), turn aside(1), turn away(2), turn back(1), turned(12), turned about(4), turned around(2), turned aside(2), turned away(3), turned over(1), turned round(1), turning(5), turns(1), walk about(2), went about(1), went throughout(2).

—NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries

 AV - (stood, turned, etc...) about 54, compass 41, turn 34, turn away 4,
      remove 3, returned 2, round 2, side 2, turn aside 2, turn back 2,
      beset 2, driven 2, compass in 2, misc 8; 154

about
Genesis 37:7; 42:24. Exodus 13:18. Deuteronomy 32:10. Joshua 16:6. Judges 19:22; 20:5. 1 Samuel 5:8, 8, 9, 10; 15:12, 27. 2 Samuel 3:12; 14:20; 18:15; 22:6. 1 Kings 2:15; 7:15; 8:14. 2 Kings 3:25; 8:21. 2 Chronicles 13:13; 14:7; 17:9; 18:31; 23:2. Job 16:13; 40:22. Psalms 7:7; 18:5; 48:12; 55:10; 59:6, 14; 88:17; 118:10, 11, 11, 12. Ecclesiastes 1:6; 2:20; 12:5. Song of Songs 3:2, 3; 5:7. Isaiah 23:16; 28:27. Jeremiah 31:39; 41:14. Ezekiel 41:7; 42:19; 47:2. Hosea 7:2. Jonah 2:5.

again
1 Chronicles 13:3.

applied
Ecclesiastes 7:25.

aside
2 Samuel 18:30, 30.

away
1 Kings 21:4. 1 Chronicles 14:14. 2 Chronicles 29:6. Song of Songs 6:5.

back
1 Kings 18:37. Jeremiah 21:4.

beset
Judges 19:22; 20:5.

besieged
Ecclesiastes 9:14.

carried
1 Samuel 5:8.

changed
2 Kings 24:17.

circuit
1 Samuel 7:16.

compass
Numbers 21:4; 34:5. Joshua 6:3, 4, 7; 15:3. 2 Samuel 5:23. 1 Kings 7:15, 23. 2 Kings 3:9. 2 Chronicles 4:2, 3. Psalms 26:6; 32:7, 10; 49:5. Jeremiah 31:22; 52:21.

compassed
Genesis 19:4. Deuteronomy 2:1, 3. Joshua 6:11, 14, 15, 15; 15:10; 18:14. Judges 11:18. 2 Kings 6:15. 2 Chronicles 33:14. Psalms 17:11; 22:12, 16; 109:3. Jonah 2:3.

compasseth
Genesis 2:11, 13. Joshua 19:14. Hosea 11:12.

compassing
1 Kings 7:24.

down
1 Samuel 16:11.

driven
Psalms 114:3, 5.

in
Judges 16:2. 2 Chronicles 21:9.

led
Exodus 13:18.

occasioned
1 Samuel 22:22.

out
1 Samuel 18:11.

remove
Numbers 36:7, 9.

removed
2 Samuel 20:12.

returned
2 Samuel 14:24. 1 Chronicles 16:43.

round
Genesis 19:4. Joshua 7:9.

side
1 Kings 5:3. Psalms 71:21.

turn
Numbers 34:4. 1 Samuel 22:17, 18. 2 Samuel 14:24. 2 Kings 9:18, 19. 1 Chronicles 12:23. 2 Chronicles 35:22. Song of Songs 2:17. Ezekiel 7:22.

turned
Judges 18:23. 1 Samuel 17:30; 22:18. 1 Kings 8:14; 18:37. 2 Kings 16:18; 20:2; 23:34. 1 Chronicles 10:14. 2 Chronicles 6:3; 36:4. Ezra 6:22. Isaiah 38:2. Jeremiah 6:12. Ezekiel 1:9, 12, 17; 10:11, 11, 16; 26:2. Habakkuk 2:16. Zechariah 14:10.

turneth
Proverbs 26:14.

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