סָבַב savav
Hebrew word for “to turn” · Strong’s H5437 · used 161 times in 152 verses
Meaning
: turn/bring_around; 1) to turn, turn about or around or aside or back or towards, go about or around, surround, encircle, change direction;
Senses in the lexicon
- to turn: turn (78)
- to turn: surround (74)
- to turn: changed (4)
- to turn: repell (3)
- to turn: again (2)
How it is translated
Glosses given for savav in context, with how often each is used:
- surrounded 19
- turned 17
- go around 10
- went around 9
- have surrounded 7
- turns 6
- went round 6
- turned round 5
- changed 4
- will turn 4
- will surround 4
- will go about 3
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psalms | 22 | 1.1 | |
| 1 Samuel | 14 | 1.1 | |
| Joshua | 13 | 1.3 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 13 | 1.0 | |
| Ezekiel | 12 | 0.6 | |
| 2 Samuel | 10 | 0.9 | |
| 2 Kings | 10 | 0.8 | |
| 1 Kings | 8 | 0.6 | |
| Ecclesiastes | 7 | 2.3 | |
| Numbers | 6 | 0.4 | |
| Jeremiah | 6 | 0.3 | |
| Genesis | 5 | 0.2 |
Also in 13 more books.
Chapters where it is used most
Joshua 6 (6), 1 Samuel 5 (3), 1 Samuel 22 (3), 1 Kings 7 (3), Psalms 118 (3), Ezekiel 1 (3), Genesis 2 (2), Exodus 39 (2), Numbers 34 (2), Numbers 36 (2)
Forms
- ויסב 22
- ויסבו 14
- ונסב 10
- יסבו 7
- יסב 6
- סב 6
- סבבוני 6
- הסב 5
- תסב 3
- סבב 3
Words used with it
Words that share verses with savav more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- עִיר ir “city” 26
- יָם yam “sea” 15
- נָקַף naqaph “to surround” 7
- שֵׁם shem “name” 13
- הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 14
- עַד ad “till” 12
- דָּוִד david “David” 11
- עָבַר avar “to pass” 9
- גְּבוּל gevul “border” 7
- פַּעַם paam “beat” 6
- תַּחַת tachat “underneath” 8
- אַמָּה ammah “cubit” 6
Key verses
The verses using savav that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Joshua 6:4 — And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall…
- Judges 19:22 — Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake…
- Psalms 22:12 — Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
- Psalms 22:16 — For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
- Psalms 26:6 — I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
- Psalms 32:7 — Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
- Psalms 114:3 — The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
- Jeremiah 21:4 — Thus saith the LORD God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and…
- Jeremiah 31:22 — How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
- Ezekiel 26:2 — Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished,…
- Hosea 7:2 — And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
- Zechariah 14:10 — All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate…
See all 152 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.