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Hebrew · Strong's H5014

נָבַב

nababnaw-bab'

to pierce

1890 spelling: nâbab

Strong's Dictionary · 1890

to pierce; to be hollow, or (figuratively) foolish

Rendered in the KJV as

hollow, vain.

  • 4
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 3 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 3
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 4 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 3

  • נְב֥וּב2
  • נָ֭בוּב1
  • נָבֽוּב׃1

How it is rendered · 2

  • hollow2
  • hollow of2

The sense the word carries at each spot: how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 2

  • verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular2
  • verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HVqsmsa · 2
  • HVqsmsc · 2

All 4, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Exodus carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0: their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).