Strong's #5437: cabab (pronounced saw-bab')
a primitive root; to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively (as follows):--bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, X whirl, X round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, X circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, round), drive, environ, X on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go, stand) round about, inclose, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
sâbab
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
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 157 times:
Genesis 2:11: "of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah,"
Genesis 2:13: "river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia."
Genesis 19:4: "of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young,"
Genesis 37:7: "stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf."
Genesis 42:24: " And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with"
Exodus 13:18: "But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea:"
Numbers 21:4: "Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom:"
Numbers 32:38: "And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed), and Shibmah: and gave other names"
Numbers 34:4: "And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin:"
Numbers 34:5: "And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be"
Numbers 36:7: "the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe:"
Numbers 36:9: "Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but"
Deuteronomy 2:1: "the LORD spoke unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many"
Deuteronomy 2:3: " Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward."
Deuteronomy 32:10: "and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye."
Joshua 6:3: " And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about"
Joshua 6:4: "of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times,"
Joshua 6:7: "unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on"
Joshua 6:11: "So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once:"
Joshua 6:14: "And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned"
Joshua 6:15: "that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner"
Joshua 6:15: "only on that day they compassed the city seven times."
Joshua 7:9: "the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name"
Joshua 15:3: "unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:"
Joshua 15:10: "And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir,"
Joshua 16:6: "to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanath-shiloh, and passed by"
Joshua 18:14: "And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill"
Joshua 19:14: "And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley"
Judges 11:18: "Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab,"
Judges 16:2: "Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate"
Judges 18:23: "unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What"
Judges 19:22: "the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about,"
Judges 20:5: "of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night,"
1 Samuel 5:8: "Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark"
1 Samuel 5:8: "of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel"
1 Samuel 5:9: "And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city"
1 Samuel 5:10: "that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel"
1 Samuel 7:16: "from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh,"
1 Samuel 15:12: "and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal."
1 Samuel 15:27: "And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent."
1 Samuel 16:11: "and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither."
1 Samuel 17:30: " And he turned from him toward another, and spoke after the same"
1 Samuel 18:11: "David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice."
1 Samuel 22:17: "unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because"
1 Samuel 22:18: "And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg"
1 Samuel 22:18: "upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew"
1 Samuel 22:22: "he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's"
2 Samuel 3:12: "me, and, behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto"
2 Samuel 5:23: "he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against"
2 Samuel 14:20: "To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done"
