סָבַב
sa.vav
1. to turn, turn about or around or aside or back or towards, go about or around, surround, encircle, change direction
a. (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
b. (Niphal)
1. to turn oneself, close round, turn round
2. to be turned over to
c. (Piel) to turn about, change, transform
d. (Poel)
1. to encompass, surround
2. to come about, assemble round
3. to march, go about
4. to enclose, envelop
e. (Hiphil)
1. to turn, cause to turn, turn back, reverse, bring over, turn into, bring round
2. to cause to go around, surround, encompass
f. (Hophal)
1. to be turned
2. to be surrounded
1. to turn, turn about or around or aside or back or towards, go about or around, surround, encircle, change direction
a. (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
b. (Niphal)
1. to turn oneself, close round, turn round
2. to be turned over to
c. (Piel) to turn about, change, transform
d. (Poel)
1. to encompass, surround
2. to come about, assemble round
3. to march, go about
4. to enclose, envelop
e. (Hiphil)
1. to turn, cause to turn, turn back, reverse, bring over, turn into, bring round
2. to cause to go around, surround, encompass
f. (Hophal)
1. to be turned
2. to be surrounded
1. to turn, turn about or around or aside or back or towards, go about or around, surround, encircle, change direction
a. (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
b. (Niphal)
1. to turn oneself, close round, turn round
2. to be turned over to
c. (Piel) to turn about, change, transform
d. (Poel)
1. to encompass, surround
2. to come about, assemble round
3. to march, go about
4. to enclose, envelop
e. (Hiphil)
1. to turn, cause to turn, turn back, reverse, bring over, turn into, bring round
2. to cause to go around, surround, encompass
f. (Hophal)
1. to be turned
2. to be surrounded
1. to turn, turn about or around or aside or back or towards, go about or around, surround, encircle, change direction
a. (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
b. (Niphal)
1. to turn oneself, close round, turn round
2. to be turned over to
c. (Piel) to turn about, change, transform
d. (Poel)
1. to encompass, surround
2. to come about, assemble round
3. to march, go about
4. to enclose, envelop
e. (Hiphil)
1. to turn, cause to turn, turn back, reverse, bring over, turn into, bring round
2. to cause to go around, surround, encompass
f. (Hophal)
1. to be turned
2. to be surrounded
1. to turn, turn about or around or aside or back or towards, go about or around, surround, encircle, change direction
a. (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
b. (Niphal)
1. to turn oneself, close round, turn round
2. to be turned over to
c. (Piel) to turn about, change, transform
d. (Poel)
1. to encompass, surround
2. to come about, assemble round
3. to march, go about
4. to enclose, envelop
e. (Hiphil)
1. to turn, cause to turn, turn back, reverse, bring over, turn into, bring round
2. to cause to go around, surround, encompass
f. (Hophal)
1. to be turned
2. to be surrounded
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
Translated as (BSB)
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Concordance 152 verses
- Psalms 32:7 תְּס֖וֹבְבֵ֣נִי
You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
- Psalms 32:10 יְסוֹבְבֶֽנּוּ׃
Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.
- Psalms 48:12 סֹ֣בּוּ
March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,
- Psalms 49:5 יְסוּבֵּֽנִי׃
Why should I fear in times of trouble, when wicked usurpers surround me?
- Psalms 55:10 יְסוֹבְבֻ֥הָ
Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.
- Psalms 59:6 וִיס֥וֹבְבוּ
They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.
- Psalms 59:14 וִיס֥וֹבְבוּ
They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.
- Psalms 71:21 וְתִסֹּ֥ב
You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.
- Psalms 88:17 סַבּ֣וּנִי
All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.
- Psalms 109:3 סְבָב֑וּנִי
They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.
- Psalms 114:3 יִסֹּ֥ב
The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
- Psalms 114:5 תִּסֹּ֥ב
Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
- Psalms 118:10 סְבָב֑וּנִי
All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- Psalms 118:11 סַבּ֥וּנִיסְבָב֑וּנִי
They surrounded me on every side, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- Psalms 118:12 סַבּ֤וּנִי
They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- Proverbs 26:14 תִּסּ֣וֹב
As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.
- Ecclesiastes 1:6 וְסוֹבֵ֖בסוֹבֵ֤ב׀סֹבֵב֙
The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.
- Ecclesiastes 2:20 וְסַבּ֥וֹתִֽי
So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 7:25 סַבּ֨וֹתִֽי
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.
- Ecclesiastes 9:14 וְסָבַ֣ב
There was a small city with few men. A mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege ramps against it.
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 וְסָבְב֥וּ
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.
- Song of Solomon 2:17 סֹב֩
Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.
- Song of Solomon 3:2 וַאֲסוֹבְבָ֣ה
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.
- Song of Solomon 3:3 הַסֹּבְבִ֖ים
I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”
- Song of Solomon 5:7 הַסֹּבְבִ֥ים
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.
- Song of Solomon 6:5 הָסֵ֤בִּי
Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead.
- Isaiah 23:16 סֹ֥בִּי
“Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”
- Isaiah 28:27 יוּסָּ֑ב
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.
- Isaiah 38:2 וַיַּסֵּ֧ב
Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,
- Jeremiah 6:12 וְנָסַ֤בּוּ
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.
- Jeremiah 21:4 מֵסֵב֮
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.
- Jeremiah 31:22 תְּס֥וֹבֵֽב
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.”
- Jeremiah 31:39 וְנָסַ֖ב
The measuring line will once again stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn toward Goah.
- Jeremiah 41:14 וַיָּסֹ֙בּוּ֙
and all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive at Mizpah turned and went over to Johanan son of Kareah.
- Jeremiah 52:21 יְסֻבֶּ֑נּוּ
Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.
- Ezekiel 1:9 יִסַּ֣בּוּ
and their wings were touching one another. They did not turn as they moved; each one went straight ahead.
- Ezekiel 1:12 יִסַּ֖בּוּ
Each creature went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they moved.
- Ezekiel 1:17 יִסַּ֖בּוּ
As they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.
- Ezekiel 7:22 וַהֲסִבּוֹתִ֤י
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.
- Ezekiel 10:11 יִסַּ֖בּוּיִסַּ֖בּוּ
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.
- Ezekiel 10:16 יִסַּ֧בּוּ
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.
- Ezekiel 26:2 נָסֵ֣בָּה
“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,’
- Ezekiel 41:7 וְֽנָסְבָה֩
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.
- Ezekiel 41:24 מוּסַבּ֣וֹת
and each door had two swinging panels. There were two panels for one door and two for the other.
- Ezekiel 42:19 סָבַ֖ב
And he came around and measured the west side to be five hundred cubits long.
- Ezekiel 47:2 וַיְסִבֵּ֙נִי֙
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.
- Hosea 7:2 סְבָב֣וּם
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.
- Hosea 11:12 סְבָבֻ֤נִי
Ephraim surrounds Me with lies, the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.
- Jonah 2:3 יְסֹבְבֵ֑נִי
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.
- Jonah 2:5 יְסֹבְבֵ֑נִי
The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.
