Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5645
עָב
abawb
cloud
31 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5645is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 26spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5645
properly, an envelope, i.e. darkness (or density, 2 Chronicles 4:17); specifically, a (scud) cloud; also a copse
The King James renders it: clay, (thick) cloud, [idiom] thick, thicket. Compare H5672 (עֲבִי).
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
ab is rendered "cloud". It stands 31 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 19:9The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you, and they will always put their trust in you.” And Moses relayed to the LORD what the people had said.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-six different ways.
The first use
The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you, and they will always put their trust in you.” And Moses relayed to the LORD what the people had said.
Exodus 19:9בְּעַ֣ב
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
- clouds6
- a cloud3
- the clouds3
- cloud2
- dark cloud2
- dark clouds of2
- like a cloud of2
- to the cloud2
- and like a cloud1
- dark clouds his1
- in clouds his1
- in dark cloud of1
and 5 more, 31 uses in all
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עָבַר | abar | to pass | Uses556 |
| עָבַד | abad | to serve | Uses288 |
| עָבוּר | abur | for the sake of | Uses49 |
| עָבַט | abat | to lend | Uses6 |
| עָבֹת | aboth | leafy | Uses4 |
| עָב | ab | threshold | Uses3 |
| עָבָה | abah | to thicken | Uses3 |
| עָבוּר | abur | produce | Uses2 |
| עָבַת | abath | to weave | Uses1 |
| עָבַשׁ | abash | to shrivel | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 31, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
26 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
- עָ֑ב4
- עָבֵ֥י2
- עָבִ֣ים2
- בְּעַ֣ב1
- בְּעָבָ֑יו1
- בְּעָבִ֗ים1
- בֶעָבִ֖ים1
- בֶּעָבִ֔ים1
- הֶעָבִ֥ים1
- הֶעָבִ֖ים1
- הֶעָבִים֙1
- וּ֝כְעָ֗ב1
and 14 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular7HNcmsa
- noun · masculine plural4HNcmpa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular4HRd/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HR/Ncmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural3HTd/Ncmpa
- noun · feminine plural2HNcfpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmpc
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural2HRd/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcmpc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine plural1HR/Ncmpa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
Exodus
one use
The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you, and they will always put their trust in you.” And Moses relayed to the LORD what the people had said.
- בְּעַ֣בbeavpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in dark cloud of
Judges
one use
O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.
- עָבִ֖יםʾavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: clouds
2 Samuel
two uses
He made darkness a canopy around Him, a gathering of water and thick clouds.
- עָבֵ֥יʾaveinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: dark clouds of
is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
- עָב֔וֹתavotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: clouds
1 Kings
two uses
On the seventh time the servant reported, “There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.” And Elijah replied, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”
- עָ֛בʾavnoun · masculine singulartagged: a cloud
Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.
- עָבִ֣יםʾavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: clouds
Job
eight uses
Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
- לָעָ֥בlaavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the cloud
Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’
- עָבִ֣יםʾavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: clouds
He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
- בְּעָבָ֑יוbeavavpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: in clouds his
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
- וּ֝כְעָ֗בukheavconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and like a cloud
Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?
- עָ֑בʾavnoun · masculine singulartagged: dark cloud
He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
- עָ֑בʾavnoun · masculine singulartagged: dark cloud
Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
- עָ֑בʾavnoun · masculine singulartagged: cloud
Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
- לָעָ֣בlaavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the cloud
Psalms
five uses
He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
- עָבֵ֥יʾaveinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: dark clouds of
From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire.
- עָבָ֥יוʾavavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: dark clouds his
The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.
- עָב֗וֹתavotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: clouds
laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
- עָבִ֥יםʾavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: clouds
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
- בְּעָבִ֗יםbeavimpreposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: with clouds
Proverbs
one use
When a king’s face brightens, there is life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.
- כְּעָ֣בkeavpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like a cloud of
Ecclesiastes
three uses
If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.
- הֶעָבִ֥יםheavimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the clouds
He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.
- בֶעָבִ֖יםveavimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: on the clouds
before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
- הֶעָבִ֖יםheavimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the clouds
Isaiah
seven uses
I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
- הֶעָבִים֙heavimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the clouds
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
- עָ֑בʾavnoun · masculine singulartagged: cloud
For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
- כְּעָ֥בkeavpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like a cloud of
This is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them.
- עָ֥בʾavnoun · masculine singulartagged: a cloud
like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.
- עָ֔בʾavnoun · masculine singulartagged: a cloud
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
- כָעָב֙khaavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the dark cloud
Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?
- כָּעָ֣בkaavpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: like the cloud
Jeremiah
one use
Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.
- בֶּעָבִ֔יםbeavimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: in the thickets
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.