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H5437Hebrew

סָבַב

Definition and meaning

cabab (saw-bab') v. 1. to revolve, surround, or border 2. used in various applications, literally and figuratively (as follows) [a primitive root] KJV: 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).

Tagged KJV passages

147 matching verses - 162.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Psalms 32:7

Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.

Matched English: compass
Psalms 32:10

Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.

Matched English: compass
Psalms 48:12

Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

Matched English: about
Psalms 49:5

Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

Matched English: compass
Psalms 55:10

Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.

Matched English: about
Psalms 59:6

They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

Matched English: about
Psalms 59:14

And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.

Matched English: about
Psalms 71:21

Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.

Matched English: side
Psalms 88:17

They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.

Matched English: about
Psalms 109:3

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

Matched English: compassed
Psalms 114:3

The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

Matched English: driven
Psalms 114:5

What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

Matched English: driven
Psalms 118:10

All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.

Matched English: about
Psalms 118:11

They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.

Matched English: about, about
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 them.

Matched English: about
Proverbs 26:14

As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.

Matched English: turneth
Ecclesiastes 1:6

The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.

Matched English: about
Ecclesiastes 2:20

Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

Matched English: about
Ecclesiastes 7:25

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

Matched English: applied
Ecclesiastes 9:14

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Matched English: besieged
Ecclesiastes 12:5

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

Matched English: about
Song of Solomon 2:17

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Matched English: turn
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 loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Matched English: about
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?

Matched English: about