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סִבָּה

çibbâh · H5438 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. turn of events

    Event or occurrence that brings about a significant change in the current situation

    Examples

    1 Kings 12:15 So the king did not listen to the people; because it was a turn of events from the LORD, in order to establish His word which the LORD spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

How it’s used In 1 role

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1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word
דָּבָר dâbâr · H1697 · words, message, word
Hebrew דָּבָר has 'cause' or 'matter' as one of its senses (e.g., legal 'case' or 'cause'), making it a near synonym in contexts where סִבָּה denotes the reason or ground for something.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Happen002002003003
The word names a cause behind an event, used of the divinely arranged turn of events by which Rehoboam refuses the elders' counsel (1 Kings 12:15), tying the word to the bringing-about of a circumstance.
Word family 7 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

סָבַב çâbab · H5437 · to turn, to swing, to turn around · 161×סָבִיב çâbîyb · H5439 · round about, around, on every side · 336×מֵסַב mêçab · H4524 · circles, round and round · 5×מוּסָב mûwçâb · H4141 · surrounding · 1×נְסִבָּה nᵉçibbâh · H5252 · turn of events · 1×סִבָּהçibbâh · H5438מוּסַבָּה mûwçabbâh · H4142 · to turn, to swing, to turn around · 0×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5438. sibbah סִבָּה noun feminine turn of affairs; — only absolute י מַעִם סִבָּה…
H5438. sibbah
סִבָּה noun feminine turn of affairs; — only absolute י מַעִם סִבָּה ׳הָֽיְתָה 1Ki 12:15 it was a turn (an ordering) from ׳י (= נְסִבָּה q. v., in || 2Ch 10:15).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Happen1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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