Lexicon nabab: to hollow out Original Word: נָבַבPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: nabab Phonetic Spelling: (naw-bab') Short Definition: hollow NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto hollow out NASB Translationhollow (3), idiot* (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ נָבַב] verb hollow out (compare Assyrian imbubu, flute, Dl HWB 443, Late Hebrew אַבּוּב id., Aramaic  אַבּוּבָא id.; hence also Arabic  knots in reed, part of reed between knots, reed; see Hoffm LCB 1882, 321 Frä 23 Fl in Levy TW i. 417); — Qal Passive participle נָבוּב Job 11:12; Jeremiah 52:21; נְבוּב Exodus 27:8; Exodus 38:7; — hollowed, hollow: of altar of tabernacle נְבוּב לֻחוֺת Exodus 27:8; Exodus 38:7 (P); of pillar in temple Jeremiah 52:21; figurative אִישׁ נָבוּב Job 11:12, i.e. empty, hollow-minded man. נֹ֫בֶה see נֹב.
Strong's hollow, vain A primitive root; to pierce; to be hollow, or (figuratively) foolish -- hollow, vain. |
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