Gav גַּב
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| גַּב | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | gav |
| Strong's number | H1354 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Gloss | back/rim/brow |
| Occurrences | 13 in 11 verses |
| Most frequent in | Ezekiel (6) |
Gav (Hebrew גַּב, Strong's H1354) is a Hebrew noun meaning “back/rim/brow”. It occurs 13 times in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) convex surface, back
1a) back (of man)
1b) mound (for illicit worship)
1c) boss (convex projection of shield)
1d) bulwarks, breastworks (of arguments-fig.)
1e) brow, eyebrow
1f) rim (of wheel)
Aramaic equivalent: gav (גַּב "back" H1355)
1a) back (of man)
1b) mound (for illicit worship)
1c) boss (convex projection of shield)
1d) bulwarks, breastworks (of arguments-fig.)
1e) brow, eyebrow
1f) rim (of wheel)
Aramaic equivalent: gav (גַּב "back" H1355)
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | place (4), bodies (2), rings (2), eyebrows (1), naves (1), bosses (1), back (1), backs (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | rims (2), your mounds (2), his eyebrows (1), your defenses (1), are defenses (1), studded (1), my back (1), their rims (1), including their backs (1), mound (1), height (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Gav, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Leviticus
- Leviticus 14:9But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean.
1 Kings
- 1 Kings 7:33And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.The wheels were made like chariot wheels; their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of cast metal.
Job
- Job 13:12Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
- Job 15:26He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.
Psalms
- Psalm 129:3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 1:18As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.
- Ezekiel 10:12And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.Their entire bodies, including their backs, hands, and wings, were full of eyes all around, as were their four wheels.
- Ezekiel 16:24That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.
- Ezekiel 16:31In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were not even like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
- Ezekiel 16:39And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.Then I will deliver you into the hands of your lovers, and they will level your mounds and tear down your lofty shrines. They will strip off your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.
- Ezekiel 43:13And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).