Hebrew verb · H5014
נָבַב
nababnaw-bab'
be hollow
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nâbab
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5014is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5014
to pierce; to be hollow, or (figuratively) foolish
The King James renders it: hollow, vain.
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
nabab is rendered "be hollow". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 27:8Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
Exodus 27:8נְב֥וּב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- hollow2
- hollow of2
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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- נְב֥וּב2
- נָ֭בוּב1
- נָבֽוּב׃1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular2HVqsmsa
- verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HVqsmsc
Exodus
two uses
Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
- נְב֥וּבnevuvverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: hollow of
Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar for carrying it. He made the altar with boards so that it was hollow.
- נְב֥וּבnevuvverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: hollow of
Job
one use
But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
- נָ֭בוּבnavuvverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: hollow
Jeremiah
one use
Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.
- נָבֽוּב׃navuvverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: hollow
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.