Definition
or (feminine) סְבִיבָה; from H5437; (as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
Traditional renderings: (place, round) about, circuit, compass, on every side.
Traditional renderings: (place, round) about, circuit, compass, on every side.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders סָבִיב:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
335 total
- Ezekiel 32:25סְבִֽיבוֹתָ֖יו · all around herAmong the slain they prepare a resting place for Elam with all her hordes, with her graves all around her. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, although their terror was once spread in the land of the living. They bear their disgrace with those who descend to the Pit. They are placed among the slain.
- Ezekiel 32:26סְבִֽיבוֹתָ֖יו · all around themMeshech and Tubal are there with all their multitudes, with their graves all around them. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because they spread their terror in the land of the living.
- Ezekiel 34:26וּסְבִיב֥וֹת · and the places aroundI will make them and the places around My hill a blessing. I will send down showers in season—showers of blessing.
- Ezekiel 36:3מִסָּבִ֗יב · on every side…therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
- Ezekiel 36:4מִסָּבִֽיב׃ס · around you…therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you.
- Ezekiel 36:7מִסָּבִ֔יב · aroundTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I have sworn with an uplifted hand that surely the nations around you will endure reproach of their own.
- Ezekiel 36:36סְבִיבוֹתֵיכֶם֒ · around youThen the nations around you that remain will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt what was destroyed, and I have replanted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.
- Ezekiel 37:2סָבִ֣יב׀ · all; סָבִ֑יב · aroundHe led me all around among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, and indeed, they were very dry.
- Ezekiel 37:21מִסָּבִ֔יב · all around…you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the Israelites out of the nations to which they have gone, and I will gather them from all around and bring them into their own land.
- Ezekiel 39:17מִסָּבִ֔יב · from all aroundAnd as for you, son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says: Call out to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field: ‘Assemble and come together from all around to the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel. There you will eat flesh and drink blood.
- Ezekiel 40:5סָבִ֣יב׀ · surrounding; סָבִ֑יבAnd I saw a wall surrounding the temple area. Now the length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits (each measuring a cubit and a handbreadth), and he measured the wall to be one rod thick and one rod high.
- Ezekiel 40:14סָבִ֥יב׀; סָבִֽיב׃ · aroundNext he measured the gateposts to be sixty cubits high. The gateway extended around to the gatepost of the courtyard.
- Ezekiel 40:16סָבִ֣יב׀ · all around; סָבִ֔יב; סָבִ֤יב׀ · all around; סָבִיב֙The gate chambers and their side pillars had beveled windows all around the inside of the gateway. The porticos also had windows all around on the inside. Each side pillar was decorated with palm trees.
- Ezekiel 40:17סָבִ֣יב׀ · all around; סָבִ֑יבThen he brought me into the outer court, and there were chambers and a pavement laid out all around the court. Thirty chambers faced the pavement,
- Ezekiel 40:25סָבִ֣יב׀ · all around; סָבִ֔יבBoth the gateway and its portico had windows all around, like the other windows. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- Ezekiel 40:29סָבִ֣יב׀ · all around; סָבִ֑יבIts gate chambers, side pillars, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- Ezekiel 40:30סָבִ֣יב׀; סָבִ֑יב · around [the inner court](The porticoes around the inner court were twenty-five cubits long and five cubits deep.)
- Ezekiel 40:33סָבִ֣יב׀ · all around; סָבִ֑יבIts gate chambers, side pillars, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- Ezekiel 40:36סָבִ֣יב׀ · all around; סָבִ֑יב…as did its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico. It also had windows all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- Ezekiel 40:43סָבִ֣יב׀ · all around; סָבִ֑יבThe double-pronged hooks, each a handbreadth long, were fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be placed on the tables.
- Ezekiel 41:5סָבִ֧יב׀ · around; סָבִ֛יב; סָבִֽיב׃ · of eachNext he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:6סָבִ֥יב׀ · all around; סָבִ֖יבThe side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.
- Ezekiel 41:7סָבִ֤יב׀ · because the structure surrounding; סָבִיב֙The 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 41:8סָבִ֣יב׀ · all; סָבִ֑יב · around [it]I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:10סָבִ֥יב · all around; סָבִ֥יב׀; סָבִֽיב׃…and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.
- Ezekiel 41:11סָבִ֥יב׀ · all; סָבִֽיב׃ · aroundThe side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. The open area was five cubits wide all around.
- Ezekiel 41:12סָבִ֣יב׀ · all; סָבִ֑יב · aroundNow the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:16סָבִיב֙ · all around…as well as the thresholds and the beveled windows and the galleries all around with their three levels opposite the threshold, were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground to the windows, and the windows were covered.