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# עָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5646

**projecting roof** — used 3 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

projecting roof [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5646/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָב: n.m. projecting roof landing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5646/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** \[עֹב\] n.m. archit. term, meaning unknown; projecting roof is conjectured (Sm Co Berthol); others landing (Da); AV RV thick beam or plank, RVm threshold; Benz Kit Toy leave untranslated; in any case a structure of wood;—abs. וְעַסֻּדִים וְעָב 1 K 7:6; appar. cstr. וְעָב עֵץ אֶל־פְּנֵי הָאוּלָם מֵהַחוּץ Ez 41:25; pl. (si vera l.) הָעֻבִּים v 26.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a canopy (2); canopies (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 41:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.41.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.41.26/#tree)

וְחַלּוֹנִ֨ים אֲטֻמ֤וֹת וְתִֽמֹרִים֙ מִפּ֣וֹ וּמִפּ֔וֹ אֶל־כִּתְפ֖וֹת הָֽאוּלָ֑ם וְצַלְע֥וֹת הַבַּ֖יִת וְהָעֻבִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and windows closed and palm.trees from here and from here to the.sides of the.porch and the.side-chambers of the.house and the canopies

*JPS 1917:* And there were narrow windows and palm-trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch; there were also the brackets of the house, and the thick beams.

[1 Kings 7:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.6/#tree)

וְאֵ֨ת אוּלָ֤ם הָֽעַמּוּדִים֙ עָשָׂ֔ה חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים אַמָּה֙ אָרְכּ֔וֹ וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים אַמָּ֖ה רָחְבּ֑וֹ וְאוּלָם֙ עַל־פְּנֵיהֶ֔ם וְעַמֻּדִ֥ים וְעָ֖ב עַל־פְּנֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.porch of the.pillars he.made \[was\].fifty cubit\[s\] length its and.\[was\] thirty cubit\[s\] breadth its and a.porch \[was\].on face their and pillars and a.canopy \[were\].on face their

*JPS 1917:* And he made the porch of pillars: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and thick beams before them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5646.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5646/): 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).