Hebrew verb · H5666
עָבָה
abahaw-baw'
to thicken
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâbâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5666is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5666
to be dense
The King James renders it: be (grow) thick(-er).
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
abah is rendered "to thicken". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy 32:15עָבִ֣יתָ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it is thick2
- you have become bloated1
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 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- עָבָ֖ה2
- עָבִ֣יתָ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqp2ms
Deuteronomy
one use
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
- עָבִ֣יתָʾavitaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have become bloated
1 Kings
one use
The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
- עָבָ֖הʾavahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is thick
2 Chronicles
one use
The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
- עָבָ֖הʾavahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is thick
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.