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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 2 / 6 (Num 11:24–1Ki 7:23)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:24 - And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about H5439 the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:31 - And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about H5439 the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:32 - And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about H5439 the camp.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:24 - Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about H5439 the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:27 - So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: H5439 and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:34 - And all Israel that were round about H5439 them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 - And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about H5439 us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 - And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about. H5439

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:12 - And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about. H5439

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about H5439 them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4 - And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about. H5439

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:14 - Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about H5439 you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:10 - But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, H5439 so that ye dwell in safety;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:7 - Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about H5439 you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:14 - When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about H5439 me;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about H5439 him that is slain:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:19 - Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, H5439 in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:12 - And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about H5439 according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:20 - And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, H5439 according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:8 - And all the villages that were round about H5439 these cities to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:11 - And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about H5439 it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:42 - These cities were every one with their suburbs round about H5439 them: thus were all these cities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:44 - And the LORD gave them rest round about, H5439 according to all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:1 - And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, H5439 that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:12 - And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about H5439 them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:14 - And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, H5439 so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:18 - When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side H5439 of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:21 - And they stood every man in his place round about H5439 the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:34 - And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side: H5439

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:29 - And Israel set liers in wait round about H5439 Gibeah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:11 - And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, H5439 and ye dwelled safe.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:21 - Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round about, H5439 even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:47

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:47 - So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, H5439 against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:5 - And David arose, and came to the place where Saul had pitched: and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay in the trench, and the people pitched round about H5439 him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 26:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:7 - So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about H5439 him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:9 - And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, H5439 to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:9 - So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about H5439 from Millo and inward.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:1 - And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about H5439 from all his enemies;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:12 - And he made darkness pavilions round about H5439 him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 24:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:6 - Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and about H5439 to Zidon,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:1 - And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about. H5439

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:24 - For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about H5439 him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:31 - For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about. H5439

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:4 - But now the LORD my God hath given me rest on every side, H5439 so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:5 - And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, H5439 against the walls of the house round about, H5439 both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about: H5439

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:6 - The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, H5439 that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:12 - And the great court round about H5439 was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:18 - And he made the pillars, and two rows round about H5439 upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:20 - And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about H5439 upon the other chapiter.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:23 - And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, H5439 and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. H5439

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