עָב av

Hebrew word for “cloud” · Strong’s H5645 · used 31 times in 31 verses

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Meaning

1) darkness, cloud, thicket; 1a) dark cloud; 1b) cloud mass; 1c) thicket (as refuge)

How it is translated

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

• clouds 16
• dark clouds 4
• cloud 3
• like a cloud 3
• dark cloud 2
• like dark cloud 1
• like cloud 1
• thickets 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Kings 18 (2), Job 37 (2), Psalms 18 (2), Ecclesiastes 11 (2), Exodus 19 (1), Judges 5 (1), 2 Samuel 22 (1), 2 Samuel 23 (1), Job 20 (1), Job 22 (1)

Forms

• עב 7
• עבים 4
• כעב 4
• בעבים 3
• העבים 3
• עבי 2
• עבות 2
• לעב 2
• בעב 1
• בעביו 1

Words used with it

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

• אוֹר or “light” 5
• מַי mayim “water” 7
• גֶּשֶׁם geshem “rain” 4
• עָנָן anan “cloud” 4
• שַׁחַק shachaq “cloud” 3
• שָׁמַיִם shamayim “heaven” 5
• סֻכָּה sukkah “booth” 3
• מָטַר matar “rain” 3
• שִׁית shit “to set” 3
• רוּחַ ruach “spirit” 4
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 5
• אַף aph “also” 3

Key verses

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

• Exodus 19:9 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told…
• Judges 5:4 — LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
• 2 Samuel 23:4 — And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear…
• Job 36:29 — Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
• Psalms 18:12 — At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
• Psalms 104:3 — Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
• Psalms 147:8 — Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
• Isaiah 5:6 — And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain…
• Isaiah 18:4 — For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat…
• Isaiah 19:1 — The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the…
• Isaiah 25:5 — Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be…
• Isaiah 44:22 — I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

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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.