Word

אוֹב

ʼôwb · H178 · Hebrew · 17 occurrences

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Thing

Wineskin, water bagHousehold22 verses

Meanings

a skin-bottle

A container made of a goatskin with the outer side turned inside, used for storing wine and known to burst when too full of new wine

Examples
Job 32:19 “Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; Like new wineskins, it is about to burst.
a spirit of the dead

The spirit of a dead person consulted by fortune-tellers, an activity forbidden in the law of Moses

Examples
Leviticus 19:31 ‘Do not turn to mediums or spiritists; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:6 ‘As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the prostitute with them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus 20:27 ‘Now a man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist must be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; they have brought their own deaths upon themselves.’”
Woman who is said to be able to communicate with spirits of the deceased ((female) medium)

Examples
1 Samuel 28:3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had mourned him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and spiritists from the land.
1 Samuel 28:7 Then Saul said to his servants, “Find for me a woman who is a medium, so that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a woman who is a medium at En-dor.”
1 Samuel 28:9 But the woman said to him, “Behold, you know what Saul has done, that he has eliminated the mediums and spiritists from the land. Why are you then setting a trap for my life, to bring about my death?”

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 2 groups

חָדָשׁnew 1
רָאָהto see 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1

What is done to itIt is the object

6 occurrences in 5 groups

עָשָׂהto do, to make 2
בָּעַרto burn, to purge 1
כָּרַתto cut off, to make (a covenant) 1
סוּרto turn aside, to depart, to remove 1
שָׁאַלto ask, to inquire, to request 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

8 occurrences in 3 groups

אֵלto, toward 5
בin/on/with 4
כlike/as 4

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

בַּעֲלָהmistress 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries

Containers001003001001003: אוֹב can name a leather bottle or skin, an object whose shape lent itself to its other sense.
Professions001001003009: The word names a medium or spiritist, one who practices necromancy, forbidden in Israel's law.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אָב ʼâb · H1 · father, grandfather, ancestor · 1210×אוֹבʼôwb · H178אַב ʼab · H2 · father · 9×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H178. ob אוֺב noun masculineJob 32:19 skin-bottle, necromancer, etc. — absolute ׳א Lev…

H178. ob
אוֺב noun masculineJob 32:19 skin-bottle, necromancer, etc. — absolute ׳א Lev 20:27 Lev 20:8t.; plural אֹבוֺת Lev 19:31 Lev 19:7t. —
1 skin-bottle, only plural חֲדָשִׁים אֹבוֺת new (wine-) skins Job 32:19.
2 necromancer, in phrase יִדְּעֹנִי אוֺ אוֺב necromancer or wizard Lev 20:27 (H; usually translated 'a man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit or that is a wizard' RV; but better a man or a woman, if there should be among them, a necromancer or wizard; no sufficient reason for exceptional use of phrase here); ׳א וְיִדְּעֹנִי Deu 18:11; 2Ch 33:6 = 2Ki 21:6 (where ׳א וידענים); וְהַיִּדְּעֹנִים הָאֹבוֺת Lev 19:31; Lev 20:6 (H) 1Sa 28:3, 1Sa 28:9; 2Ki 23:24; Isa 8:19 (where repres. as chirping & muttering, in practice of their art of seeking dead for instruction, probably ventriloquism, & so ᵐ5) Isa 19:3.
3 ghost, Isa 29:4 תְּצַפְצֵף אִמְרָתֵח וּמֵעָפָר קוֺלֵח מֵאֶרֶץ כְּאוֺב וְהָיָה and thy voice shall be as a ghost from the ground and from the dust thy speech shall chirp (so Ge MV Ew De Che and others, but chirping might be of necromancer, as Isa 8:19).
4 necromancy בַּעֲלַתאֿוֺב אֵשֶׁת a woman who was mistress of necromancy 1Sa 28:7 (twice in verse); (> RSJPh xiv, 127 f makes אוֺב primarily a subterranean spirit, and significant. 2 only an abbreviation of ׳בעלתא etc.); בּאוֺב קסם divine by necromancy 1Sa 28:8, which seems to be interpretation of 1Ch 10:13 בא ׳שׁאל inquire by necromancy. (In these three examples אוֺב is usually interpreted as ghost or familiar spirit conceived as dwelling in necromancer; but this apparently not the ancient conception.)

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Professions5 occurrences Containers1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0