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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 3 / 6 (1Ki 7:24–Psa 31:13)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:24 - Now under its brim gourds went around H5439 encircling it ten to a cubit, entirely H5439 encircling the sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the Sea when it was cast.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:35 - And on the top of the stand there was a circular form H5439 half a [fn]cubit high, and on the top of the stand its [fn]stays and its borders were part of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:36 - And he engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around H5439.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:32 - And with the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh, and he made a trench around H5439 the altar, large enough to hold two [fn]seahs of seed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:35 - And the water flowed around H5439 the altar and he also filled the trench with water.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:17 - Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Yahweh, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” And Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all H5439 around H5439 Elisha.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:8 - “And you shall surround H5439 the king, each with his weapons in his hand; and whoever comes within the ranks shall be put to death. And be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:11 - And the [fn]guards stood each with his weapons in his hand, from the right [fn]side of the house to the left [fn]side of the house, by the altar and by the house, around H5439 the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:15 - They also rejected His statutes and His covenant which He cut with their fathers and His warnings with which He warned them. And they followed vanity and became vain, and went after the nations which surrounded H5439 them, concerning which Yahweh had commanded them not to do like them.

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Now in the ninth year of his reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his military force, against Jerusalem, and he camped against it and built a siege wall all H5439 around H5439 [fn]it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:4 - Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls beside the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all H5439 around H5439 the city. And [fn]they went by way of the Arabah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:10 - So all the military force of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard tore down the walls around H5439 Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:17 - The height of the one pillar was eighteen [fn]cubits, and a bronze capital was on it; the height of the capital was three [fn]cubits, with a network and pomegranates on the capital all H5439 around H5439, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these with network.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:33 - and all their villages that were all H5439 around H5439 these cities as far as [fn]Baal. These were their settlements, and they have their genealogy.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 6:55

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:55 - to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, with its pasture lands all around H5439 it;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:27 - And they spent the night all around H5439 the house of God, because the watch was [fn]committed to them; and they were over opening it morning by morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:9 - So they stripped him and took his head and his weapons and sent them all H5439 around H5439 the land of the Philistines, to proclaim the good news to their idols and to the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:8 - And he [fn]built the city all H5439 around H5439, from the [fn]Millo even to the surrounding H5439 area H5439; and Joab [fn]repaired the rest of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:9 - ‘Behold, a son will be born to you, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies on every H5439 side H5439; for his name shall be [fn]Solomon, and I will give peace and quiet to Israel in his days.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:18 - “Is not Yahweh your God with you? And has He not given you rest on every H5439 side H5439? For He has given the inhabitants of the land into my hand, and the land is subdued before Yahweh and before His people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:12 - and the pattern of all that he had in [fn]mind, for the courts of the house of Yahweh, and for all the surrounding H5439 chambers, for the treasuries of the house of God, and for the treasuries of the holy things;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:2 - And he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form H5439, and its height was five cubits, and [fn]thirty cubits in [fn]its circumference H5439.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:3 - Now figures like oxen were under it and encircling H5439 it, ten cubits, entirely H5439 encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast [fn]in one piece.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:7 - And he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars. The land is still [fn]ours because we have sought Yahweh our God; we have sought Him, and He has given us rest on every H5439 side H5439.” So they built and succeeded.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:14 - And they struck down all the cities around H5439 Gerar, for the dread of Yahweh had fallen on them; and they plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:15 - All Judah was glad concerning the oath, for they had sworn with their whole heart and had searched for Him with all their desire, and He was found by them. So Yahweh gave them rest on every H5439 side H5439.

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Now the dread of Yahweh was on all the kingdoms of the lands which were around H5439 Judah, so that they did not make war against Jehoshaphat.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:30 - So the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for his God gave him rest all H5439 around H5439.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:7 - “And the Levites will surround H5439 the king, each man with his weapons in his hand; and whoever enters the house, let him be put to death. And be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:10 - And he caused all the people to stand, each man with his weapon in his hand, from the right [fn]side of the house to the left [fn]side of the house, by the altar and by the house, around H5439 the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:22 - So Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria and from the hand of all others, and He [fn]guided them on every H5439 side H5439.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:6 - And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, even as far as Naphtali, in their surrounding H5439 [fn]ruins,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:6 - All those around H5439 them [fn]strengthened them with articles of silver, with gold, with possessions, with cattle, and with precious things, aside from all that was given as a freewill offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:17 - Moreover, there were at my table 150 Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around H5439 us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:16 - Now it happened that when all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations surrounding H5439 us saw it, [fn]their confidence fell. And they knew that it was from our God that this work had been accomplished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:28 - So the sons of the singers were gathered from the district around H5439 Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:29 - from Beth-gilgal and from their fields in Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built themselves villages around H5439 Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:10 - “Have You not made a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every H5439 side H5439? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:8 -

‘Your hands fashioned and made me [fn]altogether H5439,

And would You swallow me up?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:11 -

“All H5439 around H5439 terrors frighten him,

And harass him at every step.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:10 -

“He breaks me down on every H5439 side H5439, and I am gone;

And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:12 -

“His troops come together,

And build up their [fn]way against me

And camp around H5439 my tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:10 -

“Therefore snares surround H5439 you,

And sudden dread terrifies you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:5 -

When [fn]the Almighty was yet with me,

And my children were around H5439 me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:14 -

“Who can open the doors of its face?

Around H5439 its teeth there is dreadful terror.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 3:6 -

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people

Who all around have set themselves against me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:8 -

The wicked strut about on every H5439 side H5439

When [fn]vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:11 -

He made darkness His hiding place, His [fn]canopy around H5439 Him,

Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

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And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around H5439 me,

And I will offer in His tent sacrifices with loud shouts of joy;

I will sing, and I will sing praises to Yahweh.

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For I have heard [fn]the bad report of many,

Terror is on every H5439 side H5439;

While they took counsel together against me,

They schemed to take my life.


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