סָבַב

The name of the first river is Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:11

• הַסֹּבֵ֗בhasovevthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the goes around

The name of the second river is Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.

Genesis 2:13

• הַסּוֹבֵ֔בhasovevthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the goes around

Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.

Genesis 19:4

• נָסַ֣בּוּnasabuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they surrounded

We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”

Genesis 37:7

• תְסֻבֶּ֙ינָה֙tesubeinahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they gathered round

And he turned away from them and wept. When he turned back and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and had him bound before their eyes.

Genesis 42:24

• וַיִּסֹּ֥בvaiyisoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned away

So God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt arrayed for battle.

Exodus 13:18

• וַיַּסֵּ֨בvaiyasevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he caused to go around

Engrave the names of the sons of Israel on the two stones the way a gem cutter engraves a seal. Then mount the stones in gold filigree settings.

Exodus 28:11

• מֻסַבֹּ֛תmusabotverb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: surrounded

They mounted the onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved like a seal with the names of the sons of Israel.

Exodus 39:6

• מֻֽסַבֹּ֖תmusabotverb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: surrounded

and the fourth row had a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. These stones were mounted in gold filigree settings.

Exodus 39:13

• מֽוּסַבֹּ֛תmusabotverb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: surrounded

Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey

Numbers 21:4

• לִסְבֹ֖בlisvopreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to go around

as well as Nebo and Baal-meon (whose names were changed), and Sibmah. And they renamed the cities they rebuilt.

Numbers 32:38

• מֽוּסַבֹּ֥תmusabotverb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: changed

cross south of the Ascent of Akrabbim, continue to Zin, and go south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it will go on to Hazar-addar and proceed to Azmon,

Numbers 34:4

• וְנָסַ֣בvenasavHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will turn

where it will turn from Azmon, join the Brook of Egypt, and end at the Sea.

Numbers 34:5

• וְנָסַ֧בvenasavHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will turn

No inheritance in Israel may be transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

Numbers 36:7

• תִסֹּ֤בtisoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will go about

No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, for each tribe of Israel must retain its inheritance.”

Numbers 36:9

• תִסֹּ֧בtisoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will go about

Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had instructed me, and for many days we wandered around Mount Seir.

Deuteronomy 2:1

• וַנָּ֥סָבvanasovHc/Vqw1cptagged: and we went around

“You have been wandering around this hill country long enough; turn to the north

Deuteronomy 2:3

• סֹ֖בsoverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: going round

He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

Deuteronomy 32:10

• יְסֹֽבְבֶ֙נְהוּ֙yesoevenhuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he surrounded it

March around the city with all the men of war, circling the city one time. Do this for six days.

Joshua 6:3

• וְסַבֹּתֶ֣םvesabotemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will go around

Have seven priests carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark. Then on the seventh day, march around the city seven times, while the priests blow the horns.

Joshua 6:4

• תָּסֹ֥בּוּtasobuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will go round

And he told the people, “Advance and march around the city, with the armed troops going ahead of the ark of the LORD.”

Joshua 6:7

• וְסֹ֣בּוּvesobuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and go round

So he had the ark of the LORD carried around the city, circling it once. And the people returned to the camp and spent the night there.

Joshua 6:11

• וַיַּסֵּ֤בvaiyasevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he caused to go around

So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.

Joshua 6:14

• וַיָּסֹ֨בּוּvaiyasobuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they went around

Then on the seventh day, they got up at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. That was the only day they circled the city seven times.

Joshua 6:15

• וַיָּסֹ֧בּוּvaiyasobuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they went around
• סָבְב֥וּsavevuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they went round

When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”

Joshua 7:9

• וְנָסַ֣בּוּvenasabuHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will surround

proceeded south of the Ascent of Akrabbim, continued on to Zin, went over to the south of Kadesh-barnea, ran past Hezron up to Addar, and curved toward Karka.

Joshua 15:3

• וְנָסַ֖בvenasavHc/VNq3mstagged: and it turns

The border curled westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, ran along the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), went down to Beth-shemesh, and crossed to Timnah.

Joshua 15:10

• וְנָסַב֩venasavHc/VNq3mstagged: and it turns

and out toward the Sea. From Michmethath on the north it turned eastward toward Taanath-shiloh and passed by it to Janoah on the east.

Joshua 16:6

• וְנָסַ֧בvenasavHc/VNq3mstagged: and it turns

On the west side the border curved southward from the hill facing Beth-horon on the south and came out at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the western side.

Joshua 18:14

• וְנָסַ֨בvenasavHc/VNq3mstagged: and it turns

Then the border circled around the north side of Neah to Hannathon and ended at the Valley of Iphtah-el.

Joshua 19:14

• וְנָסַ֤בvenasavHc/VNq3mstagged: and it turns

Then Israel traveled through the wilderness and bypassed the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, since the Arnon was its border.

Judges 11:18

• וַיָּ֜סָבvaiyasovHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it went around

When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded that place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They were quiet throughout the night, saying, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

Judges 16:2

• וַיָּסֹ֛בּוּvaiyasobuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they surrounded

When they called out after them, the Danites turned to face them and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you that you have called out such a company?”

Judges 18:23

• וַיַּסֵּ֖בּוּvaiyassebuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they turned round

While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”

Judges 19:22

• נָסַ֙בּוּ֙nasabuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they surrounded

And during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.

Judges 20:5

• וַיָּסֹ֧בּוּvaiyasobuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they surrounded

So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and asked, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” “It must be moved to Gath,” they replied. So they carried away the ark of the God of Israel.

1 Samuel 5:8

• יִסֹּ֔בyisoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: let it go round
• וַיַּסֵּ֕בּוּvaiyassebuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they brought round

But after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORD’s hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion and afflicting the men of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.

1 Samuel 5:9

• הֵסַ֣בּוּhesabuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had brought round

So they sent the ark of God to Ekron, but as it arrived, the Ekronites cried out, “They have brought us the ark of the God of Israel in order to kill us and our people!”

1 Samuel 5:10

• הֵסַ֤בּוּhesabuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have brought round

Every year he would go on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah, judging Israel in all these places.

1 Samuel 7:16

• וְסָבַב֙vesavavHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he went round

Early in the morning Samuel got up to confront Saul, but he was told, “Saul has gone to Carmel, and behold, he has set up a monument for himself and has turned and gone down to Gilgal.”

1 Samuel 15:12

• וַיִּסֹּב֙vaiyisoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned

As Samuel turned to go, Saul grabbed the hem of his robe, and it tore.

1 Samuel 15:27

• וַיִּסֹּ֥בvaiyisoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned round

And Samuel asked him, “Are these all the sons you have?” “There is still the youngest,” Jesse replied, “but he is tending the sheep.” “Send for him,” Samuel replied. “For we will not sit down to eat until he arrives.”

1 Samuel 16:11

• נָסֹ֖בnasoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will turn round

Then he turned from him toward another and asked about the offer, and those people answered him just as the first ones had answered.

1 Samuel 17:30

• וַיִּסֹּ֤בvaiyisoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned away

and he hurled it, thinking, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.

1 Samuel 18:11

• וַיִּסֹּ֥בvaiyisoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he went around

Then the king ordered the guards at his side, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they did not tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.

1 Samuel 22:17

• סֹ֥בּוּsobuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: turn round

So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

1 Samuel 22:18

• סֹ֣בsoverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: turn round
• וַיִּסֹּ֞בvaiyisoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned round

Then David said to Abiathar, “I knew that Doeg the Edomite was there that day, and that he was sure to tell Saul. I myself am responsible for the lives of everyone in your father’s house.

1 Samuel 22:22

• סַבֹּ֔תִיsabotiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have turned

Then Abner sent messengers in his place to say to David, “To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and surely my hand will be with you to bring all Israel over to you.”

2 Samuel 3:12

• לְהָסֵ֥בlehasevpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to bring round

So David inquired of the LORD, who answered, “Do not march straight up, but circle around behind them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.

2 Samuel 5:23

• הָסֵב֙hasevverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: go around

Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”

2 Samuel 14:20

• סַבֵּב֙sabevverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to change

But the king added, “He may return to his house, but he must not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his own house, but he did not see the king.

2 Samuel 14:24

• יִסֹּ֣בyisoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will turn
• וַיִּסֹּ֤בvaiyisoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned

And ten young men who carried Joab’s armor surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.

2 Samuel 18:15

• וַיָּסֹ֙בּוּ֙vaiyasobuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they surrounded

“Move aside,” said the king, “and stand here.” So he stepped aside.

2 Samuel 18:30

• סֹ֖בsoverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: go around
• וַיִּסֹּ֖בvaiyisoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he went around

But Amasa wallowed in his blood in the middle of the road, and when the man saw that all the troops were stopping there, he dragged the body off the road into a field and threw a garment over it.

2 Samuel 20:12

• וַיַּסֵּב֩vaiyasevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he brought round

The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

2 Samuel 22:6

• סַבֻּ֑נִיsabuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they surrounded me

“You know that the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected that I should reign, but the kingship has turned to my brother, for it has come to him from the LORD.

1 Kings 2:15

• וַתִּסֹּ֤בvatisoHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it has turned round

“As you are well aware, due to the wars waged on all sides against my father David, he could not build a house for the Name of the LORD his God until the LORD had put his enemies under his feet.

1 Kings 5:3

• סְבָבֻ֑הוּsevavuhuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they had surrounded him

He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.

1 Kings 7:15

• יָסֹ֖בyasoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it went round

He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.

1 Kings 7:23

• יָסֹ֥בyasoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it went round

Below the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

1 Kings 7:24

• סֹבְבִ֣יםsoevimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: surrounding

And as the whole assembly of Israel stood there, the king turned around and blessed them all

1 Kings 8:14

• וַיַּסֵּ֤בvaiyasevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he turned

Answer me, O LORD! Answer me, so that this people will know that You, the LORD, are God, and that You have turned their hearts back again.”

1 Kings 18:37

• הֲסִבֹּ֥תָhasibotaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have turned around

So Ahab went to his palace, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had told him, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He lay down on his bed, turned his face away, and refused to eat.

1 Kings 21:4

• וַיַּסֵּ֥בvaiyasevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he turned around

So the king of Israel, the king of Judah, and the king of Edom set out, and after they had traveled a roundabout route for seven days, they had no water for their army or for their animals.

2 Kings 3:9

• וַיָּסֹ֕בּוּvaiyasobuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they went around

They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings surrounded it and attacked it as well.

2 Kings 3:25

• וַיָּסֹ֥בּוּvaiyasobuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they surrounded

When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early in the morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do?”

2 Kings 6:15

• סוֹבֵ֥בsovevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: surrounding

So Jehoram crossed over to Zair with all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night. His troops, however, fled to their homes.

2 Kings 8:21

• הַסֹּבֵ֤יבhasoveivthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which was surrounding

So a horseman rode off to meet Jehu and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.” And the watchman reported, “The messenger reached them, but he is not coming back.”

2 Kings 9:18

• סֹ֣בsoverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: go around

So the king sent out a second horseman, who went to them and said, “This is what the king asks: ‘Have you come in peace?’” “What do you know about peace?” Jehu replied. “Fall in behind me.”

2 Kings 9:19

• סֹ֥בsoverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: go around

And on account of the king of Assyria, he removed the Sabbath canopy they had built in the temple and closed the royal entryway outside the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 16:18

• הֵסֵ֖בhesevverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he removed

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying,

2 Kings 20:2

• וַיַּסֵּ֥בvaiyasevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he turned around

Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, where he died.

2 Kings 23:34

• וַיַּסֵּ֥בvaiyasevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he changed

Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah.

2 Kings 24:17

• וַיַּסֵּ֥בvaiyasevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he changed

and he failed to inquire of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse.

1 Chronicles 10:14

• וַיַּסֵּב֙vaiyasevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he turned over

Now these are the numbers of men armed for battle who came to David at Hebron to turn Saul’s kingdom over to him, in accordance with the word of the LORD:

1 Chronicles 12:23

• לְהָסֵ֞בlehasevpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to turn over

Then let us bring back the ark of our God, for we did not inquire of Him in the days of Saul.”

1 Chronicles 13:3

• וְנָסֵ֛בָּהvenasebahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: and let us bring round

So David again inquired of God, who answered him, “Do not march up after them, but circle around them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.

1 Chronicles 14:14

• הָסֵב֙hasevverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: go around

Then all the people departed for their homes, and David returned home to bless his household.

1 Chronicles 16:43

• וַיִּסֹּ֥בvaiyisoHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he turned

He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.

2 Chronicles 4:2

• יָסֹ֥בyasoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it went round

Below the rim, figures of oxen encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

2 Chronicles 4:3

• סוֹבְבִ֣יםsovimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: going round

And as the whole assembly of Israel stood there, the king turned around and blessed them all

2 Chronicles 6:3

• וַיַּסֵּ֤בvaiyasevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he turned

Now Jeroboam had sent troops around to ambush from the rear, so that while he was in front of Judah, the ambush was behind them.

2 Chronicles 13:13

• הֵסֵב֙hesevverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had caused to go round

So he said to the people of Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, with doors and bars. The land is still ours because we have sought the LORD our God. We have sought Him and He has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.

2 Chronicles 14:7

• וְנָסֵ֨בvenasevHC/Vhu1cptagged: and let us surround

They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the Book of the Law of the LORD. They went throughout the towns of Judah and taught the people.

2 Chronicles 17:9

• וַיָּסֹ֙בּוּ֙vaiyasobuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they went round

When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “This is the king of Israel!” So they turned to fight against him, but Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him. God drew them away from him.

2 Chronicles 18:31

• וַיָּסֹ֥בּוּvaiyasobuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they surrounded

So Jehoram crossed into Edom with his officers and all his chariots. When the Edomites surrounded him and his chariot commanders, he rose up and attacked by night.

2 Chronicles 21:9

• הַסּוֹבֵ֣בhasovevthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which was surrounding

So they went throughout Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah and the heads of the families of Israel. And when they came to Jerusalem,

2 Chronicles 23:2

• וַיָּסֹ֙בּוּ֙vaiyasobuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they went around

For our fathers were unfaithful and did evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs on Him.

2 Chronicles 29:6

• וַיַּסֵּ֧בּוּvaiyassebuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they turned

After this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he brought it around the hill of Ophel and heightened it considerably. He also stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

2 Chronicles 33:14

• וְסָבַ֣בvesavavHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he went around

Josiah, however, did not turn away from him; instead, in order to engage him in battle, he disguised himself. He did not listen to Neco’s words from the mouth of God, but went to fight him on the Plain of Megiddo.

2 Chronicles 35:22

• הֵסֵב֩hesevverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he turned round

Then Neco king of Egypt made Eliakim brother of Jehoahaz king over Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Eliakim’s brother Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt.

2 Chronicles 36:4

• וַיַּסֵּ֥בvaiyasevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he changed

For seven days they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to strengthen their hands in the work on the house of the God of Israel.

Ezra 6:22

• וְֽהֵסֵ֞בvehesevHc/Vhq3mstagged: and he had turned

His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

Job 16:13

• יָ֘סֹ֤בּוּyasobuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they surround

The lotus plants conceal him in their shade; the willows of the brook surround him.

Job 40:22

• יְ֝סֻבּ֗וּהוּyesubuhuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they surround it

Let the assembled peoples gather around You; take Your seat over them on high.

Psalms 7:7

• תְּסוֹבְבֶ֑ךָּtesovekaverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: may it surround you

They have tracked us down, and now surround us; their eyes are set to cast us to the ground,

Psalms 17:11

• סְבָב֑וּנוּsevavuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: they have surrounded us

The cords of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me.

Psalms 18:5

• סְבָב֑וּנִיsevavuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they surrounded me

Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.

Psalms 22:12

• סְ֭בָבוּנִיsevavuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have surrounded me

For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.

Psalms 22:16

• סְבָב֗וּנִיsevavuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have surrounded me

I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,

Psalms 26:6

• וַאֲסֹבְבָ֖הvaasoevahconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: and I go around

You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

Psalms 32:7

• תְּס֖וֹבְבֵ֣נִיtesoveniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you will surround me

Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.

Psalms 32:10

• יְסוֹבְבֶֽנּוּ׃yesovvenuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will surround him

March around Zion, encircle her, count her towers,

Psalms 48:12

• סֹ֣בּוּsobuverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: go around

Why should I fear in times of trouble, when wicked usurpers surround me?

Psalms 49:5

• יְסוּבֵּֽנִי׃yesubeniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it surrounds me

Day and night they encircle the walls, while malice and trouble lie within.

Psalms 55:10

• יְסוֹבְבֻ֥הָyesovuhaverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: they go around it

They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.

Psalms 59:6

• וִיס֥וֹבְבוּvisovuHC/Vpu3mptagged: so they may go around

They return in the evening, snarling like dogs and prowling around the city.

Psalms 59:14

• וִיס֥וֹבְבוּvisovuHC/Vpu3mptagged: so they may go around

You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.

Psalms 71:21

• וְתִסֹּ֥בvetisoHC/Vqu2mstagged: and may you turn

All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.

Psalms 88:17

• סַבּ֣וּנִיsabuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have surrounded me

They surround me with hateful words and attack me without cause.

Psalms 109:3

• סְבָב֑וּנִיsevavuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have surrounded me

The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

Psalms 114:3

• יִסֹּ֥בyisoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it turned around

Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,

Psalms 114:5

• תִּסֹּ֥בtisoverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will turn around

All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

Psalms 118:10

• סְבָב֑וּנִיsevavuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they surrounded me

They surrounded me on every side, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

Psalms 118:11

• סַבּ֥וּנִיsabuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they surrounded me
• סְבָב֑וּנִיsevavuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they surrounded me

They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

Psalms 118:12

• סַבּ֤וּנִיsabuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they surrounded me

As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.

Proverbs 26:14

• תִּסּ֣וֹבtisovverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it turns

The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.

Ecclesiastes 1:6

• וְסוֹבֵ֖בvesovevconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and circling
• סוֹבֵ֤ב׀sovevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: circling around
• סֹבֵב֙sovevverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: circling around

So my heart began to despair over all the labor that I had done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:20

• וְסַבּ֥וֹתִֽיvesabotiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I turned

I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

• סַבּ֨וֹתִֽיsabotiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I turned

There was a small city with few men. A mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege ramps against it.

Ecclesiastes 9:14

• וְסָבַ֣בvesavavHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he surrounded

when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners walk the streets.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

• וְסָבְב֥וּvesavevuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will go about

Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.

Song of Solomon 2:17

• סֹב֩soverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: turn

I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.

Song of Solomon 3:2

• וַאֲסוֹבְבָ֣הvaasovahconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: and I will go around

I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”

Song of Solomon 3:3

• הַסֹּבְבִ֖יםhasoevimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who go around

I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls.

Song of Solomon 5:7

• הַסֹּבְבִ֥יםhasoevimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who go around

Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead.

Song of Solomon 6:5

• הָסֵ֤בִּיhasebiverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: turn

“Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”

Isaiah 23:16

• סֹ֥בִּיsobiverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: go around

Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.

Isaiah 28:27

• יוּסָּ֑בyusavverb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is turned

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD,

Isaiah 38:2

• וַיַּסֵּ֧בvaiyasevHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he turned

Their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and wives as well, for I will stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 6:12

• וְנָסַ֤בּוּvenasabuHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will be turned over

this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.

Jeremiah 21:4

• מֵסֵב֮mesevverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to turn round

How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a man.”

Jeremiah 31:22

• תְּס֥וֹבֵֽבtesoevverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she will surround

The measuring line will once again stretch out straight to the hill of Gareb and then turn toward Goah.

Jeremiah 31:39

• וְנָסַ֖בvenasavHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will turn

and all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive at Mizpah turned and went over to Johanan son of Kareah.

Jeremiah 41:14

• וַיָּסֹ֙בּוּ֙vaiyasobuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they turned round

Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.

Jeremiah 52:21

• יְסֻבֶּ֑נּוּyesubenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it goes round it

and their wings were touching one another. They did not turn as they moved; each one went straight ahead.

Ezekiel 1:9

• יִסַּ֣בּוּyisabuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they turned

Each creature went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they moved.

Ezekiel 1:12

• יִסַּ֖בּוּyisabuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they turned

As they moved, they went in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved.

Ezekiel 1:17

• יִסַּ֖בּוּyisabuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they turned

I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

Ezekiel 7:22

• וַהֲסִבּוֹתִ֤יvahasibotiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will turn around

When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions, without turning as they moved. For wherever the head faced, the cherubim would go in that direction, without turning as they moved.

Ezekiel 10:11

• יִסַּ֖בּוּyisabuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they turned
• יִסַּ֖בּוּyisabuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they turned

When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and even when they spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not veer away from their side.

Ezekiel 10:16

• יִסַּ֧בּוּyisabuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they turned

“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,’

Ezekiel 26:2

• נָסֵ֣בָּהnasebahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has been turned over

The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the highest, through the middle one.

Ezekiel 41:7

• וְֽנָסְבָה֩venasevahHc/VNq3fstagged: and it surrounded

and each door had two swinging panels. There were two panels for one door and two for the other.

Ezekiel 41:24

• מוּסַבּ֣וֹתmusabotverb · causative passive (hophal), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: turning

And he came around and measured the west side to be five hundred cubits long.

Ezekiel 42:19

• סָבַ֖בsavavverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he turned

Next he brought me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and there I saw the water trickling out from the south side.

Ezekiel 47:2

• וַיְסִבֵּ֙נִי֙vaysibeniHc/Vhw3ms/Sp1bstagged: and he brought round me

But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.

Hosea 7:2

• סְבָב֣וּםsevavumverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they have surrounded them

Ephraim surrounds Me with lies, the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the Holy One.

Hosea 11:12

• סְבָבֻ֤נִיsevavuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have surrounded me

For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.

Jonah 2:3

• יְסֹבְבֵ֑נִיyesoeveniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it surrounds me

The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.

Jonah 2:5

• יְסֹבְבֵ֑נִיyesoeveniverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it surrounds me

You will be filled with shame instead of glory. You too must drink and expose your uncircumcision! The cup in the LORD’s right hand will come around to you, and utter disgrace will cover your glory.

Habakkuk 2:16

• תִּסּ֣וֹבtisovverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will come round

All the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem will be turned into a plain, but Jerusalem will be raised up and will remain in her place, from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.

Zechariah 14:10

• יִסּ֨וֹבyisovverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will change