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:
Psalms 22:16: "For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands"
Psalms 26:6: "I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:"
Psalms 32:7: "art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah."
Psalms 32:10: "but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about."
Psalms 48:12: " Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers"
Psalms 49:5: "of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?"
Psalms 55:10: "Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst"
Psalms 59:6: "at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city."
Psalms 59:14: "let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city."
Psalms 71:21: "Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side."
Psalms 88:17: " They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together."
Psalms 109:3: " They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause."
Psalms 114:3: "saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back."
Psalms 114:5: "that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?"
Psalms 118:10: "All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy"
Psalms 118:11: " They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy"
Psalms 118:11: "They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy"
Psalms 118:12: " They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy"
Proverbs 26:14: "As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed."
Ecclesiastes 1:6: "goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually,"
Ecclesiastes 1:6: "unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according"
Ecclesiastes 1:6: "unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according"
Ecclesiastes 2:20: "Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor"
Ecclesiastes 7:25: "I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason"
Ecclesiastes 9:14: "a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against"
Ecclesiastes 12:5: "to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:"
Song of Solomon 2:17: "the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe"
Song of Solomon 3:2: "I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul"
Song of Solomon 3:3: "The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?"
Song of Solomon 5:7: "The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls"
Song of Solomon 6:5: " Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair"
Isaiah 23:16: "Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody,"
Isaiah 28:27: "with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches"
Isaiah 38:2: "Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,"
Jeremiah 6:12: "And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out"
Jeremiah 21:4: "God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that"
Jeremiah 31:22: "hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man."
Jeremiah 31:39: "it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath."
Jeremiah 41:14: "had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan"
Jeremiah 52:21: "cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four"
Ezekiel 1:9: "one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one"
Ezekiel 1:12: "the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went."
Ezekiel 1:17: "upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went."
Ezekiel 7:22: "My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter"
Ezekiel 10:11: "upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place"
Ezekiel 10:11: "the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went."
Ezekiel 10:16: "the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside"
Ezekiel 26:2: "Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:"
Ezekiel 41:7: "And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house"
Ezekiel 42:19: " He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds"
