גַּב gav

Hebrew word for “back/rim/brow” · Strong’s H1354 · used 13 times in 11 verses

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Meaning

1) convex surface, back;

How it is translated

Glosses given for gav in context, with how often each is used:

• mound 4
• rims 3
• defenses 2
• eyebrows 1
• bosses 1
• back 1
• backs 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 16 (3), Leviticus 14 (1), 1 Kings 7 (1), Job 13 (1), Job 15 (1), Psalms 129 (1), Ezekiel 1 (1), Ezekiel 10 (1), Ezekiel 43 (1)

Forms

• גבי 2
• גב 2
• גבך 2
• גבת 1
• וגביהם 1
• לגבי 1
• גביכם 1
• וגביהן 1
• וגבתם 1
• וגבהם 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with gav more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• רָמָה ramah “high place” 3
• אוֹפָן ophan “wheel” 2
• סָבִיב saviv “around” 3
• רְחוֹב rechov “street/plaza” 2
• מָלֵא male “full” 2
• עַיִן ayin “eye” 3
• בֶּגֶד beged “garment” 2
• בָּשָׂר basar “flesh” 2
• אַרְבַּע arba “four” 2
• בָּנָה banah “to build” 2
• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 2

Key verses

The verses using gav that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 14:9 — But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he…
• 1 Kings 7:33 — And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
• Job 13:12 — Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
• Job 15:26 — He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
• Psalms 129:3 — The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
• Ezekiel 1:18 — As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
• Ezekiel 10:12 — And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.
• Ezekiel 16:24 — That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
• Ezekiel 16:31 — In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou…
• Ezekiel 16:39 — And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of…
• Ezekiel 43:13 — And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.