עָבָה
ʻâbâh · H5666 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to be fat, to be thick
State in which objects are relatively thick; often associated with health and prosperity
ExamplesDeuteronomy 32:15 “But Jeshurun became fat and kicked— You have become fat, thick, and obstinate— Then he abandoned God who made him, And rejected the Rock of his salvation.
1 Kings 12:10 And the young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “This is what you should say to this people who spoke to you, saying: ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, now you make it lighter for us!’ You should speak this way to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
2 Chronicles 10:10 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “This is what you should say to the people who spoke to you, saying: ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter for us!’ You should speak this way to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- קֹטֶןlittle finger 2
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom+ מֹתֶןloins, waist 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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Near synonyms 2 words
- שָׁמַן shâman · H8080 · to be well-fed
- The target lexeme and שָׁמֵן both describe a process of increasing in size or volume — becoming thick or fat — and are plausible near-synonyms describing a swelling or fattening process.
- טָפַשׁ ṭâphash · H2954 · to be fat
- Both words describe overlapping physical qualities of fatness.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Fat002001001028
- To grow thick or fat, used of Israel growing fat, thick, and sleek before turning away to worship other gods in Moses' closing song.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5666. abah עָבָה verb be thick, fat, gross (Late Hebrew Pi`el עִבָּה make thick, and…
עָבָה verb be thick, fat, gross (Late Hebrew Pi`el עִבָּה make thick, and derivatives; Syriac swell up, passive participle swollen, thick, dense, stupid, and many derivatives; Arabic be dense, stupid, dense foliage; Ethiopic be great Di985); —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular ע ׳קָֽטֳנִּי אָבִי מִמָּתְנֵי 1Ki 12:10 my little finger is thicker (stouter) than, etc., = 2Ch 10:10; be thick, gross, of rebell. Israel under figure of highly fed beast, 2 masculine singular כָּשִׂיתָ עָבִיתָ שָׁמַנְתָּ Deu 32:15.
II. [עָבוּר] noun only in בַּעֲבוּר47, בַּעֲבֻר (Gen 27:10, Gen 27:31),
preposition and
conjunction for the sake of on account of, in order that (perhaps originally for the produce or gain of), suffix בַּעֲבוּרִי 1Sa 23:10, etc.; — 1 as
preposition:
a. Gen 3:17 בעבורך האדמה ארורה for thy sake, Gen 8:21 האדם בעבור for man's sake, Gen 12:13 בַּעֲבוּרֵךְ יִיטַבלִֿי לְמַעַן, Gen 12:16; Gen 18:26, Gen 18:29; Gen 26:24, Exo 9:16 ׳ב זֹאת Exo 13:8 ׳ב זה 1Sa 12:22; 2Sa 5:12; 2Sa 6:12; 2Sa 7:21; 2Sa 9:1, 2Sa 9:7; Amo 2:6; Amo 8:6 ב ׳ואביון נַעֲלָ֑יִם, Mic 2:10 ׳ב טָמְאָה on account of uncleanness, Psa 106:32; Psa 132:10, etc.; 2Sa 12:21 ׳ב חַי הַיֶּלֶד because of the child, (being) alive (= while he was alive), Jer 14:4 **< read חַתּוּ הָאֲדָמָה וְעֹבְדֵי Duhm, compare ᵐ5. חַ֫תָּה ׳ב הָאֲדָמָה on account of the ground, (which) is dismayed, Job 20:2 בִּי חוּשִׁי וּבַעֲבוּר read ׳וב זֹאת, or וּבַעֲבוּרָהּ.
b. followed by infinitive (compare לְמַעַן), in order to, Exo 9:16 ׳ב אֶתכֹּֿחִי הַרְאֹתְךָ, 1Sa 1:6; 2Sa 10:3 אתהֿעיר ׳ב הֲּקֹר, 2Sa 18:18: so לְבַעֲבוּר Exo 20:20; 2Sa 14:20; 2Sa 17:14; לְ בעבור 1Ch 19:3 (|| 2Sa 10:3, no לְ). 2 as
conjunction Gen 27:10 ׳ב יְבָרֶכְךָ אֲשֶׁר; without אשׁר, Gen 21:30 ׳ב לִ ׳תִּהְיֶה לְעֵדָה in order that it may be a witness for me, Gen 27:4 ׳ב נפשׁי תְּבָרֶכְךָ, Gen 27:19; Gen 27:31; Gen 46:34; Exo 9:14; Exo 19:9; Exo 20:20; Psa 105:45.
[עָבַת] verb Pi`el wind, weave (compare derivatives); — Imperfect3masculine plural suffix וַיְעַבְּתוּהָ Mic 7:3 and (so) they wind it (or weave it; i.e. mischief); so Hi Che GASm, but dubious; Ew reads עָבַט = twist, prevert (compare Joe 2:7, but see עבט), We וַיְעַוְּתוּהָ = id., compare Now (?), Dr.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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.
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