עָבʻâb
dark cloud, cloud-mass, thicket
Pronunciation: awb · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5645
Meanings
1. dark cloud
g. cloud of dew, dew-mist (Isaiah 18:4)
2. (cloud-)mass (2 Samuel 22:12; Psalms 18:12; Psalms 13:1-200)
3. thicket (Jeremiah 4:29; Exodus 19:9)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 31 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 19:9 Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will come to you in a thick cloud, Moses, so the people themselves can hear me when I speak with you. Then they will always trust you.” Moses told the Lord what the people had said.
- Judges 5:4 “Lord, when you set out from Seir and marched across the fields of Edom, the earth trembled, and the cloudy skies poured down rain.
- 2 Samuel 22:12 He shrouded himself in darkness, veiling his approach with dense rain clouds.
- 2 Samuel 23:4 is like the light of morning at sunrise, like a morning without clouds, like the gleaming of the sun on new grass after rain.’
- 1 Kings 18:44 Finally the seventh time, his servant told him, “I saw a little cloud about the size of a man’s hand rising from the sea.” Then Elijah shouted, “Hurry to Ahab and tell him, ‘Climb into your chariot and go back home. If you don’t hurry, the rain will stop you!’”
- 1 Kings 18:45 And soon the sky was black with clouds. A heavy wind brought a terrific rainstorm, and Ahab left quickly for Jezreel.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).