מֵסַב mêçab — a divan (as enclosing the room)
Translated in the KJV as that compass about, round about, at table.
plural masculine מְסִבִּים; or feminine מְסִבּוֹת; from H5437; a divan (as enclosing the room); abstractly (adverbial) around.
mêçab in each stem
Hiph'il
Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
מְסִבָּ֑י Ps 140:10 Participle (active), masculine plural
Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›