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H1354 גַב (gab) gab
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

from an unused root meaning to hollow or curve; the back (as rounded (compare 1460 and 1479); by analogy, the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc.

KJV Usage: back, body, boss, eminent (higher) place, (eye)brows, nave, ring

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

גַּב (gav) — back/rim/brow. 1) convex surface, back 1a) back (of man) 1b) mound (for illicit worship) 1c) boss (convex projection of shield) 1d) bulwarks, breastworks (of arguments-fig.) 1e) brow, eyebrow 1f) rim (of wheel) Aramaic equivalent: gav (גַּב "back" H1355)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun m

Shape | ≈ רָמָה

mound, boss, structure meaning unsure; possibly: = a human-made object with a somewhat convex shape

JOB 15:26 · EZK 16:24 · EZK 16:31 · EZK 16:39 · EZK 43:13

back = the rear surface of the body of humans and supernatural beings

PSA 129:3 · EZK 10:12 · DAN 7:6

Collocation: גַּבֹּת עֵינַיִם

eyebrows = the hair growing on the ridge above a person’s eye socket

LEV 14:9

Vehicles | ≈ יָד · חִשּׁוּק · חִשּׁוּר

rim = the outer edge of a wheel, connected to the hub with spokes

1KI 7:33 · EZK 1:18 · EZK 1:18

Speak | ≈ זִכָּרֹון

response, defense meanining unsure, possibly: = action by which humans respond to oher people's arguments in an effort to defend themselves

JOB 13:12 · JOB 13:12

1 EZK 16:24 · EZK 16:31 · EZK 16:39 RSV ESV "vaulted chamber" NIV NJB "mound" NJPS "eminence" NRSV "platform" REB "couch" 2 JOB 13:12 · JOB 13:12 RSV NIV NRSV ESV "defenses" NJPS "responses" NJB "retorts" REB GNT CEV "arguments"

Enio R. Mueller

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

גַּב n.m. anything convex, curved, gibbous, e,g, back, chiefly late back

mound

boss, or convex projection, of shield

bulwarks, breastworks

brow

rim of wheel

base

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