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2 Chronicles 23:2
“And 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 came to Jerusalem.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
סָבַבçâbab · saw-bab'
H5437 · Hebrew
H5437 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV 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, round), drive, environ, [idiom] on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go, stand) round about, inclose, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back).
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יָּסֹ֨בּוּ֙ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 158 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:11Genesis 2:13Genesis 19:4Genesis 37:7Genesis 42:24
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read סָבַב here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.