English: What is “around”? Around of the corners (the altar’s keranot region), not a rope-line around the entire structure in a non-halakhic sense.
In the sugya:Saviv is defined by the altar’s corners/sides as used for zerikah. It is not an informal loop around the building. The word takes its meaning from the keranot geometry of the mizbe’ach.
Type of Learning
Definition of saviv — around of the corners/sides.
What Is Learned
The blood applications are oriented to the altar’s corners and sides as defined for zerikah, not an undefined circuit. Saviv means the keranot region of the mizbe’ach.