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# עֲבִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5672

**thickness** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

thickness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5672/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲבִי: thickness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5672/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] thickness;—cstr. ע׳ גַּבֵּי מָגִנָּיו Jb 15:26 the thickness (stoutness) of the bosses of his shields (in fig.); sf. עָבְיוֹ its thickness, of the molten sea 1 K 7:26 = 2 Ch 4:5; of pillar Je 52:21.—2 Ch 4:17 v. foll.—Under עבה belongs perhaps also בְּעַב הֶעָנָן Ex 19:9 (read בַּעֲבִי?) in the thickness of the clouds, cf. Bu Th Lz 1892 (3), 63 Kö ii 1, 86.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: thickness (3); the thickness (2).

## In the verses

[Job 15:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.26/#tree)

יָר֣וּץ אֵלָ֣יו בְּצַוָּ֑אר בַּ֝עֲבִ֗י גַּבֵּ֥י מָֽגִנָּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* he.runs against him with a.neck with the.thickness of.the.bosses his.shields his

*JPS 1917:* He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers.

[1 Kings 7:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.26/#tree)

וְעָבְי֣וֹ טֶ֔פַח וּשְׂפָת֛וֹ כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה שְׂפַת־כּ֖וֹס פֶּ֣רַח שׁוֹשָׁ֑ן אַלְפַּ֥יִם בַּ֖ת יָכִֽיל׃פ

*Word for word:* and thickness its \[was\].a.hand.breadth and lip its \[was\].like.\[the\] work of.\[the\].lip of.a.cup \[the\].blossom of.a.lily two.thousand bath\[s\] it.contained

*JPS 1917:* And it was a hand-breadth thick; and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held two thousand baths.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5672.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5672/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).