Definition

properly, an environment, i.e. circumstance or turn of affairs

Etymology

feminine participle passive of H5437 (סָבַב);

Word family

• סָבַב çâbab

How the KJV renders it

• cause

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.