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H5437Gסָבַבsa.vav

to turn: turnPart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 4
  2. 2
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. 5
  5. Deuteronomy: 0
  6. 4
  7. 1
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 13
  10. 6
  11. 4
  12. 3
  13. 3
  14. 6
  15. 1
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. Job: 0
  19. 3
  20. 1
  21. 4
  22. 1
  23. 3
  24. 1
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 11
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. 1
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. 1
  39. Malachi: 0

Renderings

JPS Tanakh 1917 is not aligned yet, so there are no renderings to show.

Other meanings of H5437

  • H5437Hסָבַבsa.vavto turn: surroundH:VOccurrences: 74
  • H5437Iסָבַבsa.vavto turn: againH:VOccurrences: 2
  • H5437Jסָבַבsa.vavto turn: repellH:VOccurrences: 3
  • H5437Kסָבַבsa.vavto turn: changedH:VOccurrences: 4

78 occurrences in 73 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Psalms 114:5

    What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? thou Jordan, that thou turnest backward?

    תִּסֹּ֥ב ti.So “you will turn around”

  2. Proverbs 26:14

    The door is turning upon its hinges, and the sluggard is still upon his bed.

    תִּסּ֣וֹב ti.Sov “it turns”

  3. Ecclesiastes 1:6

    The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it turneth about continually in its circuit, and the wind returneth again to its circuits.

    וְסוֹבֵ֖ב (סוֹבֵ֖ב) so.Vev “[it is] circling”

  4. Ecclesiastes 2:20

    Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour wherein I had laboured under the sun.

    וְסַבּ֥וֹתִֽי (סַבּ֥וֹתִֽי) sa.Bo.ti “I turned”

  5. Ecclesiastes 7:25

    I turned about, and applied my heart to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason of things, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness;

    סַבּ֨וֹתִֽי sa.Bo.ti “I turned”

  6. Ecclesiastes 12:5

    Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall drag itself along, and the caperberry shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go

    וְסָבְב֥וּ (סָבְב֥וּ) sa.ve.Vu “they will go about”

  7. Song of Songs 2:17

    Until the day breathe, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a gazelle or a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

    סֹב֩ so “turn”

  8. Isaiah 23:16

    Take a harp, go about the city, thou harlot long forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.

    סֹ֥בִּי So.bi “go around”

  9. Isaiah 28:27

    For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing-sledge, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the black cummin is beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

    יוּסָּ֑ב yu.Sav “it is turned”

  10. Isaiah 38:2

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

    וַיַּסֵּ֧ב (יַּסֵּ֧ב) i.ya.Sev “he turned”

  11. Jeremiah 31:39

    And the measuring line shall yet go out straight forward unto the hill Gareb, and shall turn about unto Goah.

    וְנָסַ֖ב (נָסַ֖ב) na.Sav “it will turn”

  12. Ezekiel 1:9

    their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

    יִסַּ֣בּוּ yi.Sa.bu “they turned”

  13. Ezekiel 1:12

    And they went every one straight forward; whither the spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went.

    יִסַּ֖בּוּ yi.Sa.bu “they turned”

  14. Ezekiel 1:17

    When they went, they went toward their four sides; they turned not when they went.

    יִסַּ֖בּוּ yi.Sa.bu “they turned”

  15. Ezekiel 7:22

    I will also turn My face from them, and they shall profane My secret place; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.

    וַהֲסִבּוֹתִ֤י (הֲסִבּוֹתִ֤י) ha.si.bo.Ti “I will turn around”

  16. Ezekiel 10:11

    When they went, they went toward their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.

    יִסַּ֖בּוּ yi.Sa.bu “they turned”יִסַּ֖בּוּ yi.Sa.bu “they turned”

  17. Ezekiel 10:16

    And when the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them; and when the cherubim lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.

    יִסַּ֧בּוּ yi.Sa.bu “they turned”

  18. Ezekiel 26:2

    'Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem: aha, she is broken that was the gate of the peoples; she is turned unto me; I shall be filled with her that is laid waste;

    נָסֵ֣בָּה na.Se.bah “it has been turned over”

  19. Ezekiel 41:7

    And the side-chambers were broader as they wound about higher and higher; for the winding about of the house went higher and higher round about the house; therefore the breadth of the house continued upward; and so one went up from the lowest row to the

    וְֽנָסְבָה֩ (נָסְבָה֩) na.se.Vah “it surrounded”

  20. Ezekiel 41:24

    And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other.

    מוּסַבּ֣וֹת mu.sa.Bot “turning”

  21. Ezekiel 42:19

    He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

    סָבַ֖ב sa.Vav “he turned”

  22. Habakkuk 2:16

    Thou art filled with shame instead of glory, drink thou also, and be uncovered; the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and filthiness shall be upon thy glory.

    תִּסּ֣וֹב ti.Sov “it will come round”

  23. Zechariah 14:10

    All the land shall be turned as the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel unto th

    יִסּ֨וֹב yi.Sov “it will change”