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Strong H1354גַּב

back/rim/brow

Transliteration
gab
Pronunciation
gab
Morphology
Hebrew Noun

Definition

From an unused root meaning to hollow or curve; the back (as rounded (compare H1460 and H1479); by analogy the top or {rim} a {boss} a {vault} arch of {eye} {bulwarks } etc.: - {back} {body} {boss} eminent (higher) {place} [eye] {brows} {nave} ring.

Detailed 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)

In the Bible

Strong H1354 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • place4
  • back2
  • body1
  • boss1
  • eyebrow1
  • nave1
  • ring1

First verses

  1. Leviticus 14:9
    But 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.
  2. 1 Kings 7:33
    And 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.
  3. Job 13:12
    Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
  4. Job 15:26
    He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
  5. Psalms 129:3
    The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
  6. Ezekiel 1:18
    As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
  7. Ezekiel 10:12
    And 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.
  8. Ezekiel 16:24
    That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
  9. Ezekiel 16:31
    In 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;
  10. Ezekiel 16:39
    And 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.
  11. Ezekiel 43:13
    And 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.
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