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:
2 Samuel 14:24: "And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face."
2 Samuel 14:24: "see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not"
2 Samuel 18:15: "that bore Joab's armor compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew"
2 Samuel 18:30: "And the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still."
2 Samuel 18:30: "unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still."
2 Samuel 20:12: "all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway"
2 Samuel 22:6: "The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented"
1 Kings 2:15: "on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was"
1 Kings 5:3: "for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put"
1 Kings 7:15: "apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about."
1 Kings 7:23: "cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about."
1 Kings 7:24: "And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing"
1 Kings 8:14: "And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation"
1 Kings 18:37: "art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again."
1 Kings 21:4: "And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no"
2 Kings 3:9: "of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days' journey: and there was"
2 Kings 3:25: "left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote"
2 Kings 6:15: "and gone forth, behold, a host compassed the city both with horses and chariots."
2 Kings 8:21: "and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people"
2 Kings 9:18: "And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman"
2 Kings 9:19: "And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind"
2 Kings 16:18: "and the king's entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for"
2 Kings 20:2: " Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,"
2 Kings 23:34: "in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took"
2 Kings 24:17: "his father's brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah."
1 Chronicles 10:14: "not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son"
1 Chronicles 12:23: "to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word"
1 Chronicles 13:3: " And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we inquired not"
1 Chronicles 14:14: "said unto him Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come"
1 Chronicles 16:43: "every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house."
2 Chronicles 4:2: "the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about."
2 Chronicles 4:3: "And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit,"
2 Chronicles 6:3: "And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation"
2 Chronicles 13:13: "But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were"
2 Chronicles 14:7: "these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars,"
2 Chronicles 17:9: "of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught"
2 Chronicles 18:31: "It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed about him to fight: but Jehoshaphat cried out,"
2 Chronicles 21:9: "by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him in, and the captains of the chariots."
2 Chronicles 23:2: " And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities"
2 Chronicles 29:6: "of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 33:14: "even to the entering in at the fish gate and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put"
2 Chronicles 35:22: "Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight"
2 Chronicles 36:4: "over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho"
Ezra 6:22: "for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto"
Job 16:13: "His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out"
Job 40:22: "him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about."
Psalms 7:7: "So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high."
Psalms 17:11: "They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;"
Psalms 18:5: "The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented"
Psalms 22:12: "Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round."
