Strong’s H5437

סָבַב

savav · 148 Old Testament occurrences

King James renderings: bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, [idiom] whirl, [idiom] round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, [idiom] circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, rou…

Every Old Testament occurrence

• Genesis 2:11The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
• Genesis 2:13And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
• Genesis 19:4But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from ev…
• Genesis 37:7For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round a…
• Genesis 42:24And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound h…
• Exodus 13:18But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the lan…
• Numbers 21:4And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged b…
• Numbers 32:38And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
• Numbers 34:4And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the sout…
• Numbers 34:5And the border shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and the goings out of it shall be at the sea.
• Numbers 36:7So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himse…
• Numbers 36:9Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep hims…
• Deuteronomy 2:1Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir…
• Deuteronomy 2:3Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
• Deuteronomy 32:10He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his ey…
• Joshua 6:3And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
• Joshua 6:4And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and t…
• Joshua 6:7And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.
• Joshua 6:11So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
• Joshua 6:14And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
• Joshua 6:15And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner sev…
• Joshua 7:9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: a…
• Joshua 15:3And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and pass…
• Joshua 15:10And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the no…
• Joshua 16:6And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and passed b…
• Joshua 18:14And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and th…
• Joshua 19:14And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthahel:
• Judges 11:18Then they went along through the wilderness, and compassed the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of…
• Judges 16:2And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the c…
• Judges 18:23And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a c…
• Judges 19:22Now 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 t…
• Judges 20:5And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine hav…
• 1 Samuel 5:8They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?…
• 1 Samuel 5:9And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote…
• 1 Samuel 5:10Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, Th…
• 1 Samuel 7:16And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
• 1 Samuel 15:12And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place…
• 1 Samuel 15:27And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
• 1 Samuel 16:11And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. An…
• 1 Samuel 17:30And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.
• 1 Samuel 18:11And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.
• 1 Samuel 22:17And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD: because their hand also is with David, and…
• 1 Samuel 22:18And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on tha…
• 1 Samuel 22:22And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the de…
• 2 Samuel 3:12And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand sha…
• 2 Samuel 5:23And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mu…
• 2 Samuel 14:20To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God,…
• 2 Samuel 14:24And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the king’s…
• 2 Samuel 18:15And ten young men that bare Joab’s armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
• 2 Samuel 18:30And the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.
• 2 Samuel 20:12And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the…
• 2 Samuel 22:6The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;
• 1 Kings 2:15And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is…
• 1 Kings 5:3Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every…
• 1 Kings 7:15For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
• 1 Kings 7:23And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of…
• 1 Kings 7:24And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in…
• 1 Kings 8:14And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the congregation of Israel stood;)
• 1 Kings 18:37Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
• 1 Kings 21:4And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I wil…
• 2 Kings 3:9So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days’ journey: and there was n…
• 2 Kings 3:25And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of w…
• 2 Kings 6:15And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. A…
• 2 Kings 8:21So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the…
• 2 Kings 9:18So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? tur…
• 2 Kings 9:19Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou t…
• 2 Kings 16:18And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s entry without, turned he from the house of the LORD for the…
• 2 Kings 20:2Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the LORD, saying,
• 2 Kings 23:34And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz…
• 2 Kings 24:17And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
• 1 Chronicles 10:14And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
• 1 Chronicles 12:23And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, a…
• 1 Chronicles 13:3And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.
• 1 Chronicles 14:14Therefore David enquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against th…
• 1 Chronicles 16:43And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.
• 2 Chronicles 4:2Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubit…
• 2 Chronicles 4:3And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen…
• 2 Chronicles 6:3And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.
• 2 Chronicles 13:13But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.
• 2 Chronicles 14:7Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet befo…
• 2 Chronicles 17:9And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught…
• 2 Chronicles 18:31And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they compassed…
• 2 Chronicles 21:9Then Jehoram went forth with his princes, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed hi…
• 2 Chronicles 23:2And they went about in Judah, and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief of the fathers of Israel, and they cam…
• 2 Chronicles 29:6For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away…
• 2 Chronicles 33:14Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gat…
• 2 Chronicles 35:22Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words…
• 2 Chronicles 36:4And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his…
• Ezra 6:22And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria…
• Job 16:13His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
• Job 40:22The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
• Psalms 7:7So shall the congregation of the people compass thee about: for their sakes therefore return thou on high.
• Psalms 17:11They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
• Psalms 18:5The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
• Psalms 22:12Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
• Psalms 22:16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
• Psalms 26:6I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
• Psalms 32:7Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
• Psalms 32:10Many sorrows shall be to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the LORD, mercy shall compass him about.
• Psalms 48:12Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.
• Psalms 49:5Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?
• Psalms 55:10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
• Psalms 59:6They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
• Psalms 59:14And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
• Psalms 71:21Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
• Psalms 88:17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
• Psalms 109:3They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
• Psalms 114:3The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
• Psalms 114:5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
• Psalms 118:10All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.
• Psalms 118:11They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
• Psalms 118:12They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
• Proverbs 26:14As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.
• Ecclesiastes 1:6The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to…
• Ecclesiastes 2:20Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
• Ecclesiastes 7:25I 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…
• Ecclesiastes 9:14There 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 i…
• Ecclesiastes 12:5Also 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 grasshoppe…
• Song of Solomon 2:17Until 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.
• Song of Solomon 3:2I 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…
• Song of Solomon 3:3The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
• Song of Solomon 5:7The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
• Song of Solomon 6:5Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
• Isaiah 23:16Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
• Isaiah 28:27For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are bea…
• Isaiah 38:2Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the LORD,
• Jeremiah 6:12And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of…
• Jeremiah 21:4Thus 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…
• Jeremiah 31:22How 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.
• Jeremiah 31:39And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
• Jeremiah 41:14So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.
• Jeremiah 52:21And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness t…
• Ezekiel 1:9Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
• Ezekiel 1:12And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
• Ezekiel 1:17When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.
• Ezekiel 7:22My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
• Ezekiel 10:11When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; t…
• Ezekiel 10:16And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same whe…
• Ezekiel 26:2Son 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 s…
• Ezekiel 41:7And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward rou…
• Ezekiel 42:19He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
• Ezekiel 47:2Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastw…
• Hosea 7:2And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my…
• Hosea 11:12Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
• Jonah 2:3For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed ove…
• Jonah 2:5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
• Habakkuk 2:16Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’s right hand shall be turned…
• Zechariah 14:10All 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…