Thickness
מַעֲבֶהStrong’s H4568maaveh (ma-a-veh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Maaveh is the Hebrew word usually translated “mold of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.”
Meaning
- Thickness, compactness
How it's translated
- in mold of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
מַעֲבֶה maaveh · thickness
thickness, compactness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “thickness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
THICK'NESS, noun
The state of being thick; denseness; density; as the thickness of fog, vapor or clouds.
- The state of being concrete or inspissated; consistence; spissitude; as the thickness of paint or mortar; the thickness of honey; the thickness of the blood.
- The extent of a body from side to side, or from surface to surface; as the thickness of a tree; the thickness of a board; the thickness of the hand; the thickness of a layer of earth.
- Closeness of the parts; the state of being crowded or near; as the thickness of trees in a forest; the thickness of a wood.
- The state of being close, dense or impervious; as the thickness of shades.
All definitions
- Dullness of the sense of hearing; want of quickness or acuteness; as thickness of hearing.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.