Be hollow
נָבַבStrong’s H5014navav (na-vav)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Navav is the Hebrew word usually translated “hollow of” and “hollow”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to hollow outhollowed (participle)
How it's translated
- hollow of 2
- hollow 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- Job 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 38:7And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
- Job 11:12For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.
- Jeremiah 52:21And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
Hebrew dictionary
נָבַב navav · be hollow
1) (Qal) to hollow out 1a) hollowed (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hollow” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HOL'LOW, adjective
- Containing an empty space, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; as a hollow tree; a hollow rock; a hollow sphere.“Hollow with boards shalt thou make it” Exodus 27:8
- Sunk deep in the orbit; as a hollow eye.
- Deep; low; resembling sound reverberated from a cavity, or designating such a sound; as a hollow roar.
- Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as a hollow heart; a hollow friend.
All definitions and other forms of “hollow”
HOL'LOW, noun
A cavity, natural or artificial; any depression of surface in a body; concavity; as the hollow of the hand.
- A place excavated; as the hollow of a tree.
- A cave or cavern; a den; a hole; a broad open space in any thing.
- A pit.
- Open space of any thing; a groove; a channel; a canal.
HOL'LOW, verb transitive
To make hollow as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.
HOL'LOW, verb intransitive
To shout. [See Holla and Hollo.]
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.