Quick Definition
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Strong's Definition
properly, a mumble, i.e. a water skin (from its hollow sound); hence a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar)
Derivation: from the same as H1 (אָב) (apparently through the idea of prattling a father's name);
KJV Usage: bottle, familiar spirit.
TWOT Reference: 37a
Outline of Biblical Usage
1) water skin bottle
2) necromancer
1b) necromancer, one who evokes the dead
1c) ghost, spirit of a dead one
1d) practice of necromancy
3) one that has a familiar spirit
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
1) water skin bottle
2) necromancer
1b) necromancer, one who evokes the dead
1c) ghost, spirit of a dead one
1d) practice of necromancy
3) one that has a familiar spirit
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
אוֹב
ôb
BDB Definition:
1) water skin bottle
2) necromancer
1b) necromancer, one who evokes the dead
1c) ghost, spirit of a dead one
1d) practice of necromancy
3) one that has a familiar spirit
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from the same as H1 (apparently through the idea of prattling a fathers name)
Same Word by TWOT Number: 37a
Total KJV Occurrences: 17