What is the Strong's number for Cabab?

The Strong's number for Cabab (סָבַב) is H5437. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Cabab (Strong’s H5437): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Cabab mean?

Cabab (סָבַב, Strong's H5437) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively. The King James Bible translates it as bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, × whirl, × round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, × circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, round), drive, environ, × on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go, stand) round about, inclose, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back).

Cabab (סָבַב) is the Hebrew word numbered H5437 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively. In the King James Bible it is translated bring, cast, fetch, lead, make.

סָבַב

çâbab · Hebrew

Strong’s H5437 · saw-bab'

Original wordסָבַב
Transliterationçâbab
Pronunciationsaw-bab'
Part of speechverb (v)
Strong’s numberH5437
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, × whirl, × round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, × circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, round), drive, environ, × on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go, stand) round about, inclose, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back). (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Cabab appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Cabab (H5437) stands behind 162 English renderings in 147 verses across 25 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (22), 1 Samuel (15), Joshua (13).

How the King James Bible renders Cabab, by count

about55 of 162 (34 percent)
turned23 of 162 (14 percent)
compass18 of 162 (11 percent)
compassed17 of 162 (10 percent)
turn10 of 162 (6 percent)
away4 of 162 (2 percent)

Three places to read Cabab

Genesis 2:11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
2 Samuel 20:12 And 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 highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
Psalms 48:12 Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Cabab in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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