Hebrew noun · H1354
גַב
gabgab
back/rim/brow
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1354is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1354
the back (as rounded); by analogy, the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc.
The King James renders it: back, body, boss, eminent (higher) place, (eye) brows, nave, ring.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
gab is rendered "back/rim/brow". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 14:9On 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.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
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.
Leviticus 14:9גַּבֹּ֣ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's thirteen uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and rims their3
- mound your2
- a mound1
- and backs their1
- back my1
- bosses of1
- defenses your1
- eyebrows of1
- mound of1
- to defenses of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- גֶּ֑ב1
- גַּ֥ב1
- גַּ֭בִּי1
- גַּבֵּ֥י1
- גַּבֵּיכֶֽם׃1
- גַבֵּךְ֙1
- גַּבֵּךְ֙1
- גַּבֹּ֣ת1
- וְגַבֵּהֶ֔ם1
- וְגַבֵּיהֶ֗ם1
- וְגַ֨בֵּיהֶ֔ן1
- וְגַבֹּתָ֗ם1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HC/Ncmpc/Sp3mp
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular2HNcmsc/Sp2fs
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/Ncfpc/Sp3mp
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine plural1HC/Ncmpc/Sp3fp
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HNcmpc/Sp2mp
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp1bs
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmpc
Leviticus
one use
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.
- גַּבֹּ֣תgabotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: eyebrows of
1 Kings
one use
The wheels were made like chariot wheels; their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of cast metal.
- וְגַבֵּיהֶ֗םvegabeihemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and rims their
Job
three uses
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
- לְגַבֵּי־legabei-preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to defenses of
- גַּבֵּיכֶֽם׃gabeikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: defenses your
rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.
- גַּבֵּ֥יgabeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: bosses of
Psalms
one use
The plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.
- גַּ֭בִּיgabinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: back my
Ezekiel
seven uses
Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.
- וְגַ֨בֵּיהֶ֔ןvegabeihenconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: and rims their
- וְגַבֹּתָ֗םvegabotamconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and rims their
Their entire bodies, including their backs, hands, and wings, were full of eyes all around, as were their four wheels.
- וְגַבֵּהֶ֔םvegabehemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and backs their
you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.
- גֶּ֑בgevnoun · masculine singulartagged: a mound
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.
- גַּבֵּךְ֙gabekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: mound your
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.
- גַבֵּךְ֙gabekhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: mound your
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:
- גַּ֥בgavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: mound of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.