Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4524
מֵסַב
mesabmay-sab'
surrounds
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mêçab
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4524is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4524
a divan (as enclosing the room); abstractly (adverbial) around
The King James renders it: that compass about, (place) round about, at table.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mesab is rendered "surrounds". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- One of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 6:29Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.
1 Kings 6:29מֵסַ֣ב׀
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in five of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- round about2
- and surroundings of1
- at table his1
- surroundings my1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בִּמְסִבּ֔וֹ1
- וּמְסִבֵּ֖י1
- מֵסַ֣ב׀1
- מְסִבּ֨וֹת׀1
- מְסִבָּ֑י1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmpc
- noun · feminine plural1HNcfpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmpc/Sp1bs
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
1 Kings
one use
Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.
- מֵסַ֣ב׀mesavnoun · masculine singulartagged: round about
2 Kings
one use
Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.
- וּמְסִבֵּ֖יumesibeiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and surroundings of
Job
one use
They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.
- מְסִבּ֨וֹת׀mesibotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: round about
Psalms
one use
May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.
- מְסִבָּ֑יmesibainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: surroundings my
Song of Solomon
one use
While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
- בִּמְסִבּ֔וֹbimsibopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: at table his
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.