עֲבִי
ʻăbîy · H5672 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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thickness
State in which an object or substance is relatively thick
Examples1 Kings 7:26 And it was a hand width thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it could hold two thousand baths.
2 Chronicles 4:5 It was a hand width thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it could hold three thousand baths.
Job 15:26 “He rushes headlong at Him With his massive shield.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- הוּhis 3
- אֲדָמָהground 1
- גַבmound 1
What it is said to bePredicate
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- טֵפַחhandbreadth 2
- אֶצְבַּעfinger 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 4
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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Contrasting words 1 word
- דַּק daq · H1851 · thin, fine, gaunt
- Hebrew adjective meaning thin or fine, the direct dimensional opposite of thick; attested lexical antonym pair in descriptions of physical objects and materials
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Fat002001001028
- An abstract noun for thickness, describing the thick bronze pillars, capitals, and sea cast for Solomon's temple furnishings, too heavy in quantity for their weight to be determined.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5672. abi or obi עֲבִי noun [masculine] thickness; — construct ׳ע מָגִנָּיו נַּבֵּי Job…
or obi עֲבִי noun [masculine] thickness; — construct ׳ע מָגִנָּיו נַּבֵּי Job 15:26 the thickness (stoutness) of the bosses of his shields (in figurative); suffix עָבְיוֺ its thickness, of the molten sea 1Ki 7:26 2Ch 4:5; of pillar Jer 52:21. — 2Ch 4:17 see following — Under עבה belongs perhaps also הֶעָנָן בְּעַב Exo 19:9 (read בַּעֲבִי ?) in the thickness of the clouds, compare BuThLz 1892 (3), 63 Köii 1, 86.
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.
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
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