H5645Noun, masculine31 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
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- 2 Samuel 23:4עָבוֹת
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.’
- 1 Kings 18:44עָב
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.’”
- Job 20:6לָעָב
Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
- Psalm 77:17עָבוֹת
The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.
- Ecclesiastes 11:3הֶעָבִים
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.
- Isaiah 5:6הֶעָבִים
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.”
Brown-Driver-Briggs
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.