Strong's Concordance
Original word: סָבַב
Transliteration: sabab
Definition (short): surrounded
Definition (full): to turn about, go around, surround
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: a prim. root
Definition: to turn about, go around, surround
NASB Translation: about (2), all around (1), around (2), around* (1), away* (1), bring back (1), bring...over (1), brought (2), brought around (2), brought about (1), change (1), changed (5), circle around (2), circled (2), circled around (1), circling (1), circuit (1), circumference* (3), come around (1), completely* (1), directed (1), driven (1), encircled (2), encircling (1), encompass (2), engulfed (2), escaped (1), faced* (2), flows around (2), form (1), gathered around (2), go about (3), go around (4), led around (2), made a circuit (1), make the rounds (2), march around (3), marched around (3), measured the circumference (1), opened (1), removed (2), returned (1), set (3), set* (1), sit (1), surround (7), surrounded (18), surrounding (2), surrounds (2), swinging (1), swirling (1), taken around (1), transferred (2), turn (13), turn around (2), turn aside (1), turn away (2), turn back (1), turned (12), turned about (4), turned around (2), turned aside (2), turned away (3), turned over (1), turned round (1), turning (5), turns (1), walk about (2), went about (1), went throughout (2).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
A primitive root; to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively (as follows) -- bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, X whirl, X round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, X circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, round), drive, environ, X on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go, stand) round about, inclose, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back).
References
KJV:
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
NASB:
The name of the first is Pishon; it flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
KJV:
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
NASB:
The name of the second river is Gihon; it flows around the whole land of Cush.
KJV:
But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:
NASB:
Before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;
KJV:
For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
NASB:
for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf rose up and also stood erect; and behold, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf."
KJV:
And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
NASB:
He turned away from them and wept. But when he returned to them and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.