Thickness
עֲבִיStrong’s H5672avi (a-vi)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Avi is the Hebrew word usually translated “thickness its” and “thickness of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.”
Meaning
- Thickness
How it's translated
- and thickness its 3
- in thickness of 1
- with thickness of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 2
- 1 Kings 1
- Job 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 4:5And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
- 2 Chronicles 4:17In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
- Job 15:26He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
- 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
עֲבִי avi · thickness
thickness
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.