STRONGS NUMBER H5645


Word Summary
ab: dark cloud, cloud mass, thicket
Original Word: עָב
Transliteration: ab
Phonetic Spelling: (awb)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: dark cloud, cloud mass, thicket
Meaning: an envelope, darkness, a, cloud, a copse
Strong's Concordance
clay, thick cloud, thick, thicket

(masculine and feminine); from uwb; properly, an envelope, i.e. Darkness (or density, 2 Chron. 4:17); specifically, a (scud) cloud; also a copse -- clay, (thick) cloud, X thick, thicket. Compare abiy.

see HEBREW uwb

see HEBREW abiy

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5645. ab

II. עָב33 noun masculineIsaiah 19:1 and (1 Kings 18:44Synt. 103) feminine dark cloud, cloud-mass, thicket; — ׳ע‎ absolute 18:44 +, construct Isaiah 18:4; Proverbs 16:15; plural עָבִיםJudges 5:4 +, עָבוֺת2 Samuel 23:4 + 2Sam 77:18; construct עָבֵי22:12; Psalm 18:12; suffix עָבָיו18:13 (but probably strike out, see עבר

Qal near the end); —

1 dark cloud:

a. rain-cloud Judges 5:4; Isaiah 5:6; 1 Kings 18:44-45, 9t.

b. as high Isaiah 14:14; Job 20:6, + Ezekiel 19:11; 31:3, 10, 14 (reading בְָוֺת‎, see עֲבֹת‎).

c. chariot of ׳יIsaiah 19:1; Psalm 104:3; covering his eyes Job 22:14.

d. casting shadow Isaiah 25:5, compare 2 Samuel 23:4.

e. as swift Isaiah 60:8, and transient 44:22; Job 30:15 (all simile).

f. disposed by God Job 36:29; 37:16.

g. ׳ע טַלIsaiah 18:4 cloud of dew, dew-mist (simile).

2 (cloud-) mass, ׳ע שְׁחָקִים2 Samuel 22:12 masses of clouds (enwrapping ׳י‎) = Psalm 18:12 (Psalm 13 see above).

3 thicket as refuge Jeremiah 4:29 (perhaps under Aramaic influence). — עַבExodus 19:9 see עֲבִי‎ below עבה‎. I. עָב‎ see above