The back
גַּוStrong’s H1458gav
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gav is the Hebrew word usually translated “back your” and “back their”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:”
Meaning
- The back
How it's translated
- back your 2
- back their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Nehemiah 9:26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
- Ezekiel 23:35Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
Hebrew dictionary
גַּו gav · the back
the back
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.