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Lexicon :: Strong's H5439 - sāḇîḇ

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סָבִיב
Transliteration
sāḇîḇ
Pronunciation
saw-beeb'
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Part of Speech
adjective, adverb, substantive
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1456b

Strong’s Definitions

סָבִיב çâbîyb, saw-beeb'; or (feminine) סְבִיבָה çᵉbîybâh; from H5437; (as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around:—(place, round) about, circuit, compass, on every side.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 308x

The KJV translates Strong's H5439 in the following manner: round about (252x), on every side (26x), about 24 compass (2x), about us (2x), circuits (1x), about them (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 308x
The KJV translates Strong's H5439 in the following manner: round about (252x), on every side (26x), about 24 compass (2x), about us (2x), circuits (1x), about them (1x).
substantive

  1. places round about, circuit, round about

    adverb

  2. in a circuit, a circuit, round about

    preposition

  3. in the circuit, from every side

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סָבִיב çâbîyb, saw-beeb'; or (feminine) סְבִיבָה çᵉbîybâh; from H5437; (as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around:—(place, round) about, circuit, compass, on every side.
STRONGS H5439: Abbreviations
סָבִיב 336 substantive, used mostly as adverb and preposition, circuit, round about: — construct סְבִיב †Amos 3:11; plural construct סְבִיבֵי †Jeremiah 32:44; Jeremiah 33:13, suffix סְבִיבֶיךָ etc. (10 times), much oftener סְבִיבוֺת Exodus 7:24 22 times, סְבִיבוֺתַי, תֶיךָ-, etc., Deuteronomy 17:14, etc. (48 times): —
1. in singular —
a. as substantive 1 Chronicles 11:8 מןהֿמלוא וְעַדהַֿסָּבִיב and to the parts round about.
b. as adverb accusative סָבִיב (in) a circuit, i.e. round about, Genesis 23:17 בְּכָלגְּֿבֻלוֺ סָבִיב Exodus 19:12; Exodus 25:11, Exodus 25:24, Exodus 25:25; Leviticus 1:5, Leviticus 1:11 עַל הַמִּזְבֵּחַ סָבִיב, Judges 20:29; 1 Kings 3:1; 1 Kings 5:11 [1 Kings 4:31]; Psalm 3:7 [Psalm 3:6] שָׁתוּ עָלָ֑י אֲשֶׁר ס׳, Psalm 12:9 [Psalm 12:8]; Psalm 34:8 [Psalm 34:7] + often; sometimes doubled, for the sake of emphasis, 2 Chronicles 4:3; Ezekiel 8:10 ס׳ עַל הַקִּיר ס׳, Ezekiel 37:2; Ezekiel 40:5 and often in Ezekiel 40-43.
c. as preposition:
(a) †Amos 3:11 צַר וּסְבִיב הָאָרֶץ distress, and that in the circuit of (= round about) the land (but read probably with Syriac Version יְסֹבֵב will encircle).
(b) סָבִיב לְ׳ Exodus 16:13; Exodus 40:33; Numbers 1:50, Numbers 1:53; Numbers 2:2; Judges 7:21; 1 Kings 6:5; 1 Kings 18:32, 1 Kings 18:35; Ezekiel 41:10; Ezekiel 14:16; Job 19:12; Psalm 34:8 [Psalm 34:7]; Psalm 78:28; Psalm 125:2 (twice in verse) סָבִיב לְעַמּוֺ י׳, Psalm 128:3; Songs 3:7; Nahum 3:8.
(c) strangely, סָבִיב אֵת † 1 Kings 6:5 (omitted by Greek Version of the LXX), Ezekiel 43:17.
d. מִסָּבִיב 42, from round about, from every side, Ezekiel 16:33, Ezekiel 16:37; Ezekiel 23:22; Ezekiel 37:21, but usually (מִן 1c) = on every side, Jeremiah 4:17 הָיוּ עָלֶיהָ מִסָּבִיב, Isaiah 42:25 וַתְּלַהֲטֵהוּ מ׳, Joel 4:11 [Joel 3:11]; Joel 4:12 [Joel 3:12]; H4036 † מָגוֺר מִסָּבִיב terror on every side! Jeremiah 6:25; [H4036 Jeremiah 20:3], Jeremiah 20:10; Jeremiah 46:5; Jeremiah 49:29; Psalm 31:14 [Psalm 31:13], compare Lamentations 2:22; especially in the Deuteronomic phrases אוֺיְבִים מ׳, or הֵנִיחַ מ׳ (sometimes in combination), as Deuteronomy 12:10 והניח לכם מכלאֿויביכם מ׳, Deuteronomy 25:19; Joshua 21:42 לָהֶם מ׳ וַיָּנַח י׳, Joshua 23:1; Judges 2:14; Judges 8:34; 1 Samuel 12:11 +; מִסָּבִיב לְ from round about, † Numbers 16:24, Numbers 16:27.— On 1 Samuel 14:21; 2 Samuel 24:6; Job 10:8 see H5437 סָבַב.
2. In plural: —
a. †סְבִיבִים :
(a) in masculine sense, those round about, Psalm 76:12 [Psalm 76:11] כָּלסְֿבִיבָיו יֹבִילוּ שַׁי, Psalm 89:8 [Psalm 89:7]; Jeremiah 48:17, Jeremiah 48:39.
(b) in neuter sense, the parts round about, Jeremiah 49:5 מִכָּלסְֿבִיבָ֑יִךְ, בִּסְבִיבֵי ירושׁלם Jeremiah 32:44; Jeremiah 33:13; Jeremiah 21:14 וְאָֽכְלָה כָּלסְֿבִיבֶיהָ, Jeremiah 46:14; with the force of a preposition, Psalm 50:3 וסביביו נשׂערה מאד, Psalm 97:2; Lamentations 1:17.
b. סְבִיבוֺת:
(a) as substantive
(α) circuits, Ecclesiastes 1:6 ועל סביבותיו שָׁב הָרוּחַ;
(β) the parts round about, Numbers 22:4 ילחכו הקהל אתכֿלסְֿבִיבֹתֵינוּ, Jeremiah 17:26; Jeremiah 50:32 (compare Jeremiah 21:14 above); with reference to their inhabitants, Psalm 44:19 [Psalm 44:18] = Psalm 79:4 לעג וקלס לסב׳, Ezekiel 16:57; Ezekiel 28:24; Daniel 9:16.
(b) with the force a preposition Exodus 7:24 סְבִיבֹת הַיְאֹר literally (in) the circuits of the Nile = round about the Nile, Numbers 11:24, Numbers 11:31, Numbers 11:32; Numbers 35:2 סְבִיבֹתֵיהֶם, Judges 7:18; 1 Samuel 26:5, 1 Samuel 26:7; 2 Kings 6:17 סביבֹת אלישׁע, Psalm 18:12 [Psalm 18:11]; Psalm 27:6 על אֹיְבַי סביבותי, etc.; often idiomatic preceded by אשׁר, as Genesis 33:5 הערים אשׁר סביבותיהם Genesis 41:48; Leviticus 25:44; Numbers 16:34; Deuteronomy 6:14; Deuteronomy 13:8 [Deuteronomy 13:7]; Deuteronomy 17:14; Deuteronomy 21:2 +. In the same sense מִסְּבִיבוֺתָם † Ezekiel 28:26.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

23:17; 33:5; 41:48

Exodus

7:24; 7:24; 16:13; 19:12; 25:11; 25:24; 25:25; 40:33

Leviticus

1:5; 1:11; 25:44

Numbers

1:50; 1:53; 2:2; 11:24; 11:31; 11:32; 16:24; 16:27; 16:34; 22:4; 35:2

Deuteronomy

6:14; 12:10; 13:7; 17:14; 17:14; 21:2; 25:19

Joshua

21:42; 23:1

Judges

2:14; 7:18; 7:21; 8:34; 20:29

1 Samuel

12:11; 14:21; 26:5; 26:7

2 Samuel

24:6

1 Kings

3:1; 4:31; 6:5; 6:5; 18:32; 18:35

2 Kings

6:17

1 Chronicles

11:8

2 Chronicles

4:3

Job

10:8; 19:12

Psalms

3:6; 12:8; 18:11; 18:12; 27:6; 31:13; 34:7; 34:7; 44:18; 50:3; 76:11; 78:28; 79:4; 89:7; 97:2; 125:2; 128:3

Ecclesiastes

1:6

Song of Songs

3:7

Isaiah

42:25

Jeremiah

4:17; 6:25; 17:26; 20:10; 21:14; 21:14; 32:44; 32:44; 33:13; 33:13; 46:5; 46:14; 48:17; 48:39; 49:5; 49:29; 50:32

Lamentations

1:17; 2:22

Ezekiel

8:10; 14:16; 16:33; 16:37; 16:57; 23:22; 28:24; 28:26; 37:2; 37:21; 40:5; 41:10; 43:17

Daniel

9:16

Joel

3:11; 3:12

Amos

3:11; 3:11

Nahum

3:8

H5439

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Strong's Number H5439 matches the Hebrew סָבִיב (sāḇîḇ),
which occurs 337 times in 282 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 6 / 6 (Eze 41:5–Zec 14:14)

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Then he measured the wall of the [fn]temple, six cubits; and the width of the side chambers, four cubits, all H5439 around H5439 the house on every H5439 side H5439.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:6 - The side chambers were in three stories, [fn]one above another, and [fn]thirty in each story; and [fn]the side chambers extended to the wall which stood on [fn]their inward side all H5439 around H5439, so that they could be attached, but not be attached to the wall of the temple itself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:7 - And the side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story. Because the structure surrounding the temple went upward by stages on all H5439 sides H5439 of the temple, for that reason the width of the temple increased as it went higher; and so one went up from the lowest story to the highest by way of the [fn]second story.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:8 - I saw also that the house had a raised [fn]platform all H5439 around H5439; the foundations of the side chambers were a full [fn]rod of six [fn]long cubits in height.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:10 - and the outer chambers was twenty cubits in width around H5439 the temple on every H5439 side H5439.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:11 - The [fn]doorways of the side [fn]chambers toward the free space consisted of one doorway toward the north, and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the free space was five cubits all H5439 around H5439.

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The building that was in front of the separate area at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits [fn]thick all H5439 around H5439, and its length was ninety cubits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:16 - The thresholds, the [fn]latticed windows, and the [fn]galleries all H5439 around H5439 their three stories, opposite the threshold, were paneled with wood all H5439 around H5439, and from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered),

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:17 - over the entrance, and to the inner house, and on the outside, and on all the wall all H5439 around H5439 inside and outside, by measurement.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:19 - a human face toward the palm tree on one side and a young lion’s face toward the palm tree on the other side; they were [fn]carved on all the house all H5439 around H5439.

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Now when he had finished measuring the inner house, he brought me out by way of the gate which faced east, and measured it all H5439 around H5439.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:16 - He measured on the east side with the measuring [fn]rod: five hundred rods by the measuring rod.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:17 - He measured on the north side: five hundred rods by the measuring rod.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:20 - He measured it [fn]on the four sides; it had a wall all H5439 around H5439, the length five hundred rods and the width five hundred, to divide between the holy and the [fn]common.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:12 - “This is the [fn]law of the house: its entire [fn]area on the top of the mountain all H5439 around H5439 shall be most holy. Behold, this is the [fn]law of the house.

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“And these are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit being a [fn]cubit and a hand width): the [fn]base shall be a cubit and the width a cubit, and its border on its edge all H5439 around H5439 one span; and this shall be the height of the [fn]base of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:17 - “And the ledge shall be fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides, the border around H5439 it shall be half a cubit, and its base shall be a cubit all H5439 around H5439; and its steps shall [fn]face east.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:20 - ‘And you shall take some of its blood and put it on its four horns and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border all H5439 around H5439; so you shall cleanse it and make atonement for it.

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“Now when you divide the land by lot for inheritance, you shall offer [fn]an allotment to the LORD, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be a length of twenty-five thousand [fn]cubits, and the width shall be [fn]twenty thousand. It shall be holy within its entire surrounding H5439 boundary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:2 - “Out of this there shall be for the sanctuary a square encompassing H5439 five hundred by five hundred cubits, and fifty cubits for its [fn]open space round H5439 about H5439.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:23 - And there was a row of masonry all H5439 around H5439 in them, around H5439 the four of them, and cooking hearths were made under the rows all H5439 around H5439.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 48:35

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:35 - “The city shall be eighteen thousand cubits all H5439 around H5439; and the name of the city from that day shall be, ‘[fn]The LORD is there.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:16 - “Lord, in accordance with all Your [fn]righteous acts, let now Your anger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the wrongdoings of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become an object of taunting to all those around H5439 us.

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[fn]Hurry and come, all you surrounding H5439 nations,

And gather yourselves there.

Bring down, LORD, Your warriors.

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Let the nations be awakened

And come up to the Valley of [fn]Jehoshaphat,

For there I will sit to judge

All the surrounding H5439 nations.

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Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says:

“An enemy, one H5439 surrounding H5439 the land,

Will take down your fortifications from you,

And your citadels will be looted.”

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Are you better than [fn]No-amon,

Which was situated by the canals of the Nile,

With water surrounding H5439 her,

Whose rampart was [fn]the sea,

Whose wall consisted of [fn]the sea?

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:5 - ‘But I,’ declares the LORD, ‘will be a wall of fire to her on all H5439 sides H5439, and I will be the glory in her midst.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:7 - ‘Are these not the words which the LORD proclaimed by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and carefree along with its cities around H5439 it, and the [fn]Negev and the [fn]foothills were inhabited?’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:2 - “Behold, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup [fn]that causes staggering to all the peoples around H5439; and when the siege is against Jerusalem, it will also be against Judah.

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“On that day I will make the [fn]clans of Judah like a firepot among pieces of wood and a flaming torch among sheaves, so they will consume on the right and on the left all the surrounding H5439 peoples, while [fn]the inhabitants of Jerusalem again live on their own sites in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:14 - Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding H5439 nations will be gathered, gold, silver, and garments in great abundance.

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