Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5646
עָב
abawb
threshold
3 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 H5646is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5646
an architrave (as shading the pillars)
The King James renders it: thick (beam, plant).
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 "threshold". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 7:6Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.
1 Kings 7:6וְעָ֖ב
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
- and a threshold1
- and a threshold of1
- and the thresholds1
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 |
| עָב | ab | cloud | Uses31 |
| עָבַט | abat | to lend | Uses6 |
| עָבֹת | aboth | leafy | Uses4 |
| 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 3, 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
- וְהָעֻבִּֽים׃1
- וְעָ֖ב1
- וְעָ֥ב1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Td/Ncmpa
1 Kings
one use
Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.
- וְעָ֖בveavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a threshold
Ezekiel
two uses
Cherubim and palm trees like those on the walls were carved on the doors of the outer sanctuary, and there was a wooden canopy outside, on the front of the portico.
- וְעָ֥בveavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a threshold of
There were beveled windows and palm trees on the sidewalls of the portico. The side rooms of the temple also had canopies.
- וְהָעֻבִּֽים׃vehaubimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the thresholds
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.