Lexicon ab: dark cloud, cloud mass, thicket Original Word: עָבPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: ab Phonetic Spelling: (awb) Short Definition: clouds NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definitiondark cloud, cloud mass, thicket NASB Translationcloud (7), clouds (19), thick cloud (2), thick clouds (4), thickets (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs II. עָב33 noun masculineIsaiah 19:1 and (1 Kings 18:44 Kö Synt. 103) feminine dark cloud, cloud-mass, thicket; — ׳ע absolute 1 Kings 18:44 +, construct Isaiah 18:4; Proverbs 16:15; plural עָבִים Judges 5:4 +, עָבוֺת 2 Samuel 23:4 + 2Sam 77:18; construct עָבֵי 2 Samuel 22:12; Psalm 18:12; suffix עָבָיו Psalm 18:13 (but probably strike out, see עבר Qal near the end); — 1 dark cloud: a. rain-cloud Judges 5:4; Isaiah 5:6; 1 Kings 18:44,45 9t. b. as high Isaiah 14:14; Job 20:6, + Ezekiel 19:11; Ezekiel 31:3,10,14 (reading בְָוֺת, see עֲבֹת). c. chariot of ׳י Isaiah 19:1; Psalm 104:3; covering his eyes Job 22:14. d. casting shadow Isaiah 25:5, compare 2 Samuel 23:4. e. as swift Isaiah 60:8, and transient Isaiah 44:22; Job 30:15 (all simile). f. disposed by God Job 36:29; Job 37:16. g. טַל ׳ע Isaiah 18:4 cloud of dew, dew-mist (simile). 2 (cloud-) mass, שְׁחָקִים ׳ע 2 Samuel 22:12 masses of clouds (enwrapping ׳י) = Psalm 18:12 (Psalm 13 see above). 3 thicket as refuge Jeremiah 4:29 (perhaps under Aramaic influence). — עַב Exodus 19:9 see עֲבִי below עבה. I. עָב see above
Strong's clay, thick cloud, thick, thicket (masculine and feminine); from uwb; properly, an envelope, i.e. Darkness (or density, 2 Chron. 4:17); specifically, a (scud) cloud; also a copse -- clay, (thick) cloud, X thick, thicket. Compare abiy. see HEBREW uwb see HEBREW abiy |
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