Back/rim/brow
גַּבStrong’s H1354gav
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gav is the Hebrew word usually translated “rims their”, “mound your” and “eyebrows of”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.”
Meaning
- Convex surface, backback (of man) · mound (for illicit worship) · boss (convex projection of shield) · bulwarks, breastworks (of arguments-fig.) · brow, eyebrow · rim (of wheel)
How it's translated
- and rims their 3
- mound your 2
- eyebrows of 1
- defenses of 1
- defenses your 1
- bosses of 1
- back my 1
- and backs their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 6
- Job 2
- Leviticus 1
- 1 Kings 1
- Psalms 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 7:33And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
- Job 13:12Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
- Job 15:26He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
- Psalms 129:3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
- Ezekiel 1:18As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
- Ezekiel 10:12And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.
Hebrew dictionary
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)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.