סָבִיב
round about
also: places round about, circuit fuller range ↓
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
79 distinct verses where H5439 appears in the Construct state, across 22 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 2 verses
- Genesis 35:5 סְבִיבֹ֣תֵי/הֶ֔ם n c bp cs + sfx pers 3mp They traveled: and a terror of God was on the cities that were round about them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.
- Genesis 41:48 סְבִיבֹתֶ֖י/הָ n c bp cs + sfx pers 3fs He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, he laid up in the same.
Exodus 1 verse
Leviticus 1 verse
Numbers 6 verses
- Numbers 11:24 סְבִיבֹ֥ת n c bp cs Moses went out, and told the people the words of Yahweh: and he gathered seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the Tent.
- Numbers 11:31 סְבִיב֖וֹת n c bp cs There went forth a wind from Yahweh, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.
- Numbers 11:32 סְבִיב֖וֹת n c bp cs The people rose up all that day, and all the night, and all the next day, and gathered the quails: he who gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
- Numbers 16:34 סְבִיבֹתֵי/הֶ֖ם n c bp cs + sfx pers 3mp All Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
- Numbers 22:4 סְבִ֣יבֹתֵ֔י/נוּ n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cp Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this multitude lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field. Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.
- Numbers 35:2 סְבִיבֹ֣תֵי/הֶ֔ם n c bp cs + sfx pers 3mp Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and suburbs for the cities round about them shall you give to the Levites.
Deuteronomy 4 verses
- Deuteronomy 6:14 סְבִיבוֹתֵי/כֶֽם n c bp cs + sfx pers 2mp You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you;
- Deuteronomy 13:7 סְבִיבֹ֣תֵי/כֶ֔ם n c bp cs + sfx pers 2mp of the gods of the peoples who are round about you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;
- Deuteronomy 17:14 סְבִיבֹתָֽ/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs When you are come to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, and shall possess it, and shall dwell therein, and shall say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me;
- Deuteronomy 21:2 סְבִיבֹ֥ת n c bp cs then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are round about him who is slain:
Joshua 3 verses
- Joshua 19:8 סְבִיבוֹת֙ n c bp cs and all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
- Joshua 21:11 סְבִיבֹתֶֽי/הָ n c bp cs + sfx pers 3fs They gave them Kiriath Arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs of it round about it.
- Joshua 21:42 סְבִיבֹתֶ֑י/הָ n c bp cs + sfx pers 3fs These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus it was with all these cities.
Judges 2 verses
- Judges 2:12 סְבִיב֣וֹתֵי/הֶ֔ם n c bp cs + sfx pers 3mp and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger.
- Judges 7:18 סְבִיבוֹת֙ n c bp cs When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow you the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, For Yahweh and for Gideon.
1 Samuel 2 verses
- 1 Samuel 26:5 סביבת/ו סְבִיבֹתָֽי/ו n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped round about him.
- 1 Samuel 26:7 סביבת/ו סְבִיבֹתָֽי/ו n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay round about him.
2 Samuel 1 verse
2 Kings 2 verses
- 2 Kings 6:17 סְבִיבֹ֥ת n c bp cs Elisha prayed, and said, Yahweh, Please open his eyes, that he may see. Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
- 2 Kings 17:15 סְבִֽיבֹתָ֔/ם n c bp cs + sfx pers 3mp They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Yahweh had charged those who they should not do like them.
1 Chronicles 3 verses
- 1 Chronicles 4:33 סְבִיב֛וֹת n c bp cs and all their villages that were round about the same cities, to Baal. These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy.
- 1 Chronicles 6:55 סְבִיבֹתֶֽי/הָ n c bp cs + sfx pers 3fs to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs of it round about it;
- 1 Chronicles 9:27 וּ/סְבִיב֥וֹת conj + n c bp cs They lodged round about the house of God, because the charge [of it] was on them; and to them pertained the opening of it morning by morning.
Ezra 1 verse
Nehemiah 2 verses
- Nehemiah 5:17 סְבִיבֹתֵ֖י/נוּ n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cp Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the nations that were round about us.
- Nehemiah 6:16 סְבִֽיבֹתֵ֔י/נוּ n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cp It happened, when all our enemies heard [of it], that all the nations that were about us feared, and were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was worked of our God.
Job 3 verses
- Job 22:10 סְבִיבוֹתֶ֣י/ךָ n c bp cs + sfx pers 2ms Therefore snares are round about you. Sudden fear troubles you,
- Job 29:5 סְבִ֖יבוֹתַ֣/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs When the Almighty was yet with me, And my children were around me;
- Job 41:14 סְבִיב֖וֹת n c bp cs Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.
Psalms 10 verses
- Psalms 18:11 סְבִֽיבוֹתָ֥י/ו n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion around him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
- Psalms 27:6 סְֽבִיבוֹתַ֗/י n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cs Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.
- Psalms 44:13 לִ/סְבִיבוֹתֵֽי/נוּ prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cp You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
- Psalms 50:3 וּ֝/סְבִיבָ֗י/ו conj + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3ms Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very tempestuous around him.
- Psalms 76:11 סְבִיבָ֑י/ו n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.
- Psalms 79:3 סְֽבִ֘יב֤וֹת n c bp cs Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.
- Psalms 79:4 לִ/סְבִיבוֹתֵֽי/נוּ prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 1cp We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
- Psalms 89:7 סְבִיבָֽי/ו n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms A very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, To be feared above all those who are around him?
- Psalms 89:8 סְבִיבוֹתֶֽי/ךָ n c bp cs + sfx pers 2ms Yahweh, God of hosts, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.
- Psalms 97:2 סְבִיבָ֑י/ו n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Ecclesiastes 1 verse
Jeremiah 9 verses
- Jeremiah 17:26 וּ/מִ/סְּבִיב֨וֹת conj + prep + n c bp cs They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal-offerings, and frankincense, and bringing [sacrifices of] thanksgiving, to the house of Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 21:14 סְבִיבֶֽי/הָ n c bs cs + sfx pers 3fs I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.
- Jeremiah 32:44 וּ/בִ/סְבִיבֵ֣י conj + prep + n c bp cs Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill-country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 33:13 וּ/בִ/סְבִיבֵ֥י conj + prep + n c bp cs In the cities of the hill-country, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, shall the flocks again pass under the hands of him who numbers them, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 46:14 סְבִיבֶֽי/ךָ n c bp cs + sfx pers 2ms Declare you in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say you, Stand forth, and prepare you; for the sword has devoured round about you.
- Jeremiah 48:17 סְבִיבָ֔י/ו n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms All you who are round about him, bemoan him, and all you who know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!
- Jeremiah 48:39 סְבִיבָֽי/ו n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are round about him.
- Jeremiah 49:5 סְבִיבָ֑יִ/ךְ n c bp cs + sfx pers 2fs Behold, I will bring a fear on you, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, from all who are round about you; and you shall be driven out every man right forth, and there shall be none to gather together the fugitives.
- Jeremiah 50:32 סְבִיבֹתָֽי/ו n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are round about him.
Lamentations 1 verse
Ezekiel 22 verses
- Ezekiel 5:2 סְבִ֣יבוֹתֶ֔י/הָ n c bp cs + sfx pers 3fs A third part shall you burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and you shall take a third part, and strike with the sword round about it; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.
- Ezekiel 5:5 וּ/סְבִיבוֹתֶ֖י/הָ conj + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3fs Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her.
- Ezekiel 5:6 סְבִיבוֹתֶ֑י/הָ n c bp cs + sfx pers 3fs She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.
- Ezekiel 5:7 סְבִיבֽוֹתֵי/כֶ֔ם סְבִיבוֹתֵי/כֶ֖ם n c bp cs + sfx pers 2mp n c bp cs + sfx pers 2mp Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you are turbulent more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my ordinances, neither have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you;
- Ezekiel 5:12 סְבִיבוֹתָ֑יִ/ךְ n c bp cs + sfx pers 2fs A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of you; and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and a third part I will scatter to all the winds, and will draw out a sword after them.
- Ezekiel 5:14 סְבִיבוֹתָ֑יִ/ךְ n c bp cs + sfx pers 2fs Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by.
- Ezekiel 5:15 סְבִיבוֹתָ֑יִ/ךְ n c bp cs + sfx pers 2fs So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment, to the nations that are round about you, when I shall execute judgments on you in anger and in wrath, and in wrathful rebukes; (I, Yahweh, have spoken it;)
- Ezekiel 6:5 סְבִיב֖וֹת n c bp cs I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
- Ezekiel 6:13 סְבִיב֖וֹת n c bp cs You shall know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet savor to all their idols.
- Ezekiel 11:12 סְבִיבוֹתֵי/כֶ֖ם n c bp cs + sfx pers 2mp and you shall know that I am Yahweh: for you have not walked in my statutes, neither have you executed my ordinances, but have done after the ordinances of the nations that are round about you.
- Ezekiel 12:14 סְבִיבֹתָ֥י/ו n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms I will scatter toward every wind all who are round about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.
- Ezekiel 16:57 סְבִיבוֹתֶ֖י/הָ מִ/סָּבִֽיב n c bp cs + sfx pers 3fs prep + n c bs before your wickedness was uncovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all who are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, who do despite to you round about.
- Ezekiel 28:24 סְבִ֣יבֹתָ֔/ם n c bp cs + sfx pers 3mp There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are round about them, that did despite to them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 28:26 מִ/סְּבִ֣יבוֹתָ֔/ם prep + n c bp cs + sfx pers 3mp They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who do them despite round about them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God.
- Ezekiel 31:4 סְבִיב֣וֹת n c bp cs The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers of it ran round about its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.
- Ezekiel 32:22 סְבִֽיבוֹתָ֖י/ו n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are round about her; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;
- Ezekiel 32:23 סְבִיב֖וֹת n c bp cs whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who caused terror in the land of the living.
- Ezekiel 32:24 סְבִיב֖וֹת n c bp cs There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave; all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who are gone down uncircumcised into the lower parts of the earth, who caused their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit.
- Ezekiel 32:25 סְבִֽיבוֹתָ֖י/ו n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude; her graves are round about her; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for their terror was caused in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with those who go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of those who are slain.
- Ezekiel 32:26 סְבִֽיבוֹתָ֖י/ו n c bp cs + sfx pers 3ms There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.
- Ezekiel 34:26 וּ/סְבִיב֥וֹת conj + n c bp cs I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
- Ezekiel 36:36 סְבִיבוֹתֵי/כֶם֒ n c bp cs + sfx pers 2mp Then the nations that are left round about you shall know that I, Yahweh, have built the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, Yahweh, have spoken it, and I will do it.
Daniel 1 verse
Amos 1 verse
Zechariah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
סביב — transliterated çâbîyb — is a Hebrew word carrying the sense “round about.” Its English rendering has broadened — “round about” classically, “around” (Berean Standard Bible) and “all around” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 282 verses — common. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Ezekiel. It also covers “places round about” and “circuit”, alongside “round about” — see its full sense range. See the sense tree, 282-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5439 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 282
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 282 distinct verses.
- 28 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 28 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #146
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 146 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 282 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 282 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 159 verses · 56%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 67 verses · 24%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 56 verses · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Round about 181×, Are round about 19×, Every side 18×
- American Standard Version†: Round about 165×, Every side 14×, Are round about 13×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Around 61×, All around 30×, Every side 27×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: All around 113×, Around 55×, Surrounding 15×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5439 across 308† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 33 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5439 across 307† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 56 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5439 across 295† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 50 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 38 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5439 across 329† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 43 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
8 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 8 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
סביב I subst., used mostly as adv. and prep., circuit, round about
- 1. in sg.:—
- a. as subst. 1 Ch 11:8 מן־המלוא וְעַד־הַסָּבִיב and to the parts round about. e.g. 1 Chronicles 11:8
- b. as adv.acc. סָבִיב (in) a circuit, i.e. round about, Gn 23:17 בְּכָל־גְּבֻלוֹ סָבִיב Ex 19:12; 25:11, 24, 25, Lv 1:5, 11 עַל הַמִּזְבֵּחַ סָבִיב, Ju 20:29 1 K 3:1; 5:11 ψ 3:7 אֲשֶׁר ס׳ שָׁתוּ עָלָ֑י, 12:9 34:8 + often; sometimes doubled, for the sake of emphasis, 2 Ch 4:3, Ez 8:10 עַל הַקִּיר ס׳ ס׳, 37:2; 40:5 and often in Ez 40–43. e.g. Genesis 23:17
- c. as prep.: (a) †Am 3:11 צַר וּסְבִיב הָאָרֶץ distress, and that in the circuit of (= round about) the land (but read prob. with 𝔖 יְסֹבֵב will encircle). (b) סָבִיב לְ׳ Ex 16:13; 40:33 Nu 1:50, 53; 2:2 Ju 7:21 1 K 6:5; 18:32, 35 Ez 41:10, 16 Jb 19:12 ψ 34:8; 78:28; 125:2(×2) י׳ סָבִיב לְעַמּוֹ, 128:3 Ct 3:7 Na 3:8. (c) strangely, סָבִיב אֵת †1 K 6:5 (om.𝔊), Ez 43:17. e.g. Amos 3:11
- d. מִסָּבִיב42, from round about, from every side, Ez 16:33, 37; 23:22; 37:21, but usually (מִן 1 c) = on every side, Je 4:17 הָיוּ עָלֶיהָ מִסָּבִיב, Is 42:25 וַתְּלַהֲטֵהוּ מ׳, Jo 4:11, 12; †מָגוֹר מִסָּבִיב terror on every side! Je 6:25; 20:3, 10; 46:5; 49:29 ψ 31:14, cf. La 2:22; especially in the Deut. phrases אוֹיְבִים מ׳, or הֵנִיחַ מ׳ (sometimes in combin.), as Dt 12:10 והניח לכם מכל־אויביכם מ׳, 25:19 Jos 21:42 וַיָּנַח י׳ לָהֶם מ׳, 23:1 Ju 2:14; 8:34 1 S 12:11 +; מִסָּבִיב לְ from round about, †Nu 16:24, 27.—On 1 S 14:21 2 S 24:6 Jb 10:8 v. סָבַב. e.g. Ezekiel 16:33
- 2. In plur.:—
- a. †סְבִיבִים: (a) in masc. sense, those round about, ψ 76:12 כָּל־סְבִיבָיו יֹבִילוּשַׁי, 89:8 Je 48:17, 39. (b) in neuter sense, the parts round about, Je 49:5 מִכָּל־סְבִיבָ֑יִךְ, בִּסְבִיבֵי ירושׁלם 32:44; 33:13; 21:14 וְאָֽכְלָה כָּל־סְבִיבֶיהָ, 46:14; with the force of a prep., ψ 50:3 וסביביו נשׂערה מאד, 97:2 La 1:17. e.g. Psalms 76:12
- b. סְבִיבוֹת: (a) as subst. (α) circuits, Ec 1:6 ועל סביבותיו שָׁב הָרוּחַ; (β) the parts round about, Nu 22:4 ילחכו הקהל את־כל־סְבִיבֹתֵינוּ, Je 17:26; 50:32 (cf. 21:14 supr.); with ref. to their inhabitants, ψ 44:19 = 79:4 לעג וקלם לסב׳, Ez 16:57; 28:24 Dn 9:16. (b) with the force of a prep. Ex 7:24 סְבִיבֹת הַיְאֹר lit. (in) the circuits of the Nile = round about the Nile, Nu 11:24, 31, 32; 35:2 סְבִיבֹתֵיהֶם, Ju 7:18 1 S 26:5, 7 2 K 6:17 סביבֹת אלישׁע, ψ 18:12; 27:6 על אֹיְבַי סביבותי, etc.; often idiom. preceded by אשׁר, as Gn 35:5 הערים אשׁר סביבותיהם 41:48 Lv 25:44 Nu 16:34 Dt 6:14; 13:8; 17:14; 21:2 +. In the same sense מִסְּבִיבוֹתָם + Ez 28:26. e.g. Ecclesiastes 1:6
סביב II encompassing, surrounding(?)
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. subst., used mostly as adv. and prep., circuit, round about:—cstr. סְבִיב †Am 3:11; pl. cstr. סְבִיבֵי †Je 32:44; 33:13, sf. סְבִיבֶיךָ etc. (10 times), much oftener סְבִיבוֹת Ex 7:24 + 22 times, סְבִיבוֹתַי, תֶיךָ-, etc., Dt 17:14, etc. (48 times):—
I. n.m. encompassing, surrounding(?);—only cstr. מוּסַב הַבַּיִת Ez 41:7 the encompassing of the house, but meaning wholly obscure; מוּסַף enlargement Ew Berthol ToyHpt after 𝔊; Co del. clause as dittogr.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from סבב (çâbab) (H5437) — to turn around.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
סָבִיב
- around. Tanḥ. B’midb. 12 ס׳ למשכן around the Tabernacle; a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 84 distinct written forms H5439 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 24 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5439, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- מוסב mûwçâb H4141 surrounding
- מסב mêçab H4524 surroundings
- נסבה nᵉçibbâh H5252 turn of affairs
- סבה çibbâh H5438 turn of events
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 257 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 282 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 23:17
- Exodus 7:24
- Leviticus 1:5
- Numbers 1:50
- Deuteronomy 6:14
- Joshua 15:12
- Judges 2:12
- 1 Samuel 12:11
- 2 Samuel 5:9
- 1 Kings 5:4
- 2 Kings 6:17
- 1 Chronicles 4:33
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
