Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H1354

גַּב

gav · “back/rim/brow”

Used 13 times across 5 books

Definition

1) convex surface, back
1a) back (of man)
1b) mound (for illicit worship)
1c) boss (convex projection of shield)
1d) bulwarks, breastworks (of arguments-fig.)
1e) brow, eyebrow
1f) rim (of wheel)
Aramaic equivalent: gav (גַּב "back" H1355)

Where it appears

Leviticus

1 Kings

Job

Psalms

Ezekiel

In the text

Leviticus 14:9But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.1 Kings 7:33And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.Job 13:12Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.Job 15:26He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:Psalms 129:3The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.Ezekiel 1:18As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.Ezekiel 10:12And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.Ezekiel 16:24That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.Ezekiel 16:31In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;Ezekiel 16:39And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

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