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:
Ezekiel 47:2: "of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter"
Hosea 7:2: "their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face."
Hosea 11:12: "Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet"
Jonah 2:3: "in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed"
Jonah 2:5: "even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head."
Habakkuk 2:16: "and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on"
Zechariah 14:10: "All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south"
