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sa.vav H5437

סָבַב (sa.vav) means “to turn: turn” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

סָבַב Hebrew · H5437 161 tagged occurrences in 152 verses

Pronunciation guide: saw-bab' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H5437G

סָבַב · sa.vav · to turn: turn

: turn/bring_around 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

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TBESH · H5437H

סָבַב · sa.vav · to turn: surround

: surround/go_round 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

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TBESH · H5437I

סָבַב · sa.vav · to turn: again

: again 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

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TBESH · H5437J

סָבַב · sa.vav · to turn: repell

: repell/turn_away 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

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TBESH · H5437K

סָבַב · sa.vav · to turn: changed

: changed 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

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

a primitive root; to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively

KJV glosses: 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).

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How translators render H5437

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
turned 7
surrounded 5
surround me 4
turn 4
away 3
march around 3
turning 3
and he changed 2
and prowling around 2
around 2
entangled me 2
fall in 2
i will turn 2
may be transferred 2
on their rounds 2
over 2
surrounded it 2
turned around 2
winds through 2
am responsible 1
and after they had traveled a roundabout 1
and bypassed 1
and changed 1
and curved 1
and go about 1
and has turned 1
and he brought it around 1
and he came around 1
and he turned away 1
and led me around 1
and march around 1
and marched around 1
and round 1
and surround them 1
and surrounded 1
and then turn 1
and turned 1
are all around them 1
aside 1
began 1
bring about 1
but circle 1
but circle around 1
carried around 1
circled around 1
closed around me 1
cross 1
curled 1
directed 1
eluded 1
gather around you 1
gathered around 1
had surrounded 1
has turned 1
have turned 1
he dragged 1
he may return 1
he removed 1
he surrounded him 1
in circumference 1
in order to bypass 1
is not rolled 1
it has swung open 1
move aside 1
must be moved 1
on a circuit 1
on all sides 1
on every side 1
once again 1
pivoting 1
returned 1
returned home 1
round 1
sit down to eat 1
so they carried away 1
so they turned 1
so they went throughout 1
stroll through 1
surround him 1
surround us 1
surrounded me 1
surrounds him 1
surrounds me 1
swinging 1
swirled about me 1
that i may go about 1
that you turned 1
then he turned 1
then hezekiah turned 1
then let us bring back 1
then mount 1
then turns 1
these stones were mounted 1
they circled 1
they encircle 1
they engulf me 1
they had moved 1
they have brought 1
they marched around 1
they surround me 1
they surrounded me 1
they surrounded that place 1
they swarmed around me 1
they went 1
they will surround 1
to bring 1
turn away 1
turns 1
veer away 1
walk 1
we wandered around 1
were changed 1
will be turned 1
will be turned over 1
will come around 1
will shelter 1
will turn 1
you have been wandering around 1
you surround me 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
turned 6
compassed 5
about 4
and compassed 4
did compass 4
they turned 4
turn 4
and turned 3
compassed me about 3
shall be turned 3
shall compass 3
they compassed 3
and go round about 2
compasseth 2
go about 2
have compassed 2
remove 2
returned 2
round about 2
they compassed me about 2
turned about 2
went about 2
about him turn 1
against it and besieged 1
against me and beset 1
and a winding about 1
and compass 1
and fetched a compass 1
and he turned 1
and he turned aside 1
and he turned himself about 1
and is gone about 1
and led me about 1
and let us bring again 1
and make about 1
and shall compass about 1
and shall environ us round 1
and they carried 1
and they fetched a compass 1
and they turned 1
and they went about 1
and turned away 1
and turneth about 1
and ye shall compass 1
avoided out 1
back 1
be carried about 1
behold i will turn back 1
beset 1
cast about 1
closed me round about 1
compass him about 1
compass me round about 1
compass thee about 1
compassed about 1
compassing 1
fetch a compass 1
fetch about 1
have beset them about 1
he led him about 1
he removed 1
he turned about 1
him and have turned away 1
him and turned 1
him for we will not sit down 1
i applied 1
i have occasioned 1
in 1
in circuit 1
in his stead and changed 1
is turned about 1
it that compasseth 1
it they turned 1
it which compasseth 1
led 1
let him turn 1
me on every side 1
now and go about 1
of them about 1
round 1
shall fetch a compass 1
shall turn 1
she is turned 1
so will i compass 1
stood round about 1
that go about 1
that went about 1
them turn away 1
then he turned 1
therefore i went about 1
therefore they compassed about 1
they came round about 1
they go about 1
they had carried it about 1
they have brought about 1
they have now compassed 1
thou hast turned 1
thou shalt compass 1
thou wast driven 1
to compass 1
to turn 1
turn aside 1
turn away 1
turneth 1
unto me and we compassed 1
walk about 1
was driven 1
which compassed him about 1
which compassed him in 1
which did compass 1
which were about him on every side 1
will i turn 1
with thee to bring about 1
with them and went about 1
would not turn 1
ye have compassed 1
ye shall compass 1
yea they compassed me about 1

Verses containing H5437

Page 3 of 4. 152 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Psalms 32:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

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  2. Psalms 32:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.

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  3. Psalms 48:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,

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    Source alternate reference: 48.13

  4. Psalms 49:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Why should I fear in times of trouble, when wicked usurpers surround me?

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    Source alternate reference: 49.6

  5. Psalms 55:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.

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    Source alternate reference: 55.11

  6. Psalms 59:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.

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    Source alternate reference: 59.7

  7. Psalms 59:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.

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    Source alternate reference: 59.15

  8. Psalms 71:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.

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  9. Psalms 88:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.

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    Source alternate reference: 88.18

  10. Psalms 109:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

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  11. Psalms 114:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

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  12. Psalms 114:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

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  13. Psalms 118:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

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  14. Psalms 118:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    They surrounded me on every side, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

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  15. Psalms 118:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

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  16. Proverbs 26:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.

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  17. Ecclesiastes 1:6 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.

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  18. Ecclesiastes 2:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.

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  19. Ecclesiastes 7:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

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  20. Ecclesiastes 9:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    There was a small city with few men. A mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege ramps against it.

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  21. Ecclesiastes 12:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.

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  22. Song of Solomon 2:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.

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  23. Song of Solomon 3:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.

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  24. Song of Solomon 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”

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  25. Song of Solomon 5:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls.

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  26. Song of Solomon 6:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead.

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  27. Isaiah 23:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”

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  28. Isaiah 28:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.

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  29. Isaiah 38:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

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  30. Jeremiah 6:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.

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  31. Jeremiah 21:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.

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  32. Jeremiah 31:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a man.”

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  33. Jeremiah 31:39 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The measuring line will once again stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn toward Goah.

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  34. Jeremiah 41:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive at Mizpah turned and went over to Johanan son of Kareah.

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  35. Jeremiah 52:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.

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  36. Ezekiel 1:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and their wings were touching one another. They did not turn as they moved; each one went straight ahead.

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  37. Ezekiel 1:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Each creature went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they moved.

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  38. Ezekiel 1:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.

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  39. Ezekiel 7:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

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  40. Ezekiel 10:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions, without turning as they moved. For wherever the head faced, the cherubim would go in that direction, without turning as they moved.

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  41. Ezekiel 10:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and even when they spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not veer away from their side.

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  42. Ezekiel 26:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,’

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  43. Ezekiel 41:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.

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  44. Ezekiel 41:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and each door had two swinging panels. There were two panels for one door and two for the other.

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  45. Ezekiel 42:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And he came around and measured the west side to be five hundred cubits long.

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  46. Ezekiel 47:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Next he brought me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and there I saw the water trickling out from the south side.

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  47. Hosea 7:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.

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  48. Hosea 11:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Ephraim surrounds Me with lies, the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.

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    Source alternate reference: 12.1

  49. Jonah 2:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

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    Source alternate reference: 2.4

  50. Jonah 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.

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    Source alternate reference: 2.6

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