Surrounding
מוּסָבStrong’s H4141musav (mu-sav)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Musav is the Hebrew word usually translated “surrounding of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.”
Meaning
- Encompassing, surrounding, round about
How it's translated
- surrounding of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מוּסָב musav · surrounding
encompassing, surrounding, round about
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “surrounding” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SURROUND'ING, participle present
tense Encompassing; inclosing; lying on all sides of.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.