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גַב H1354
H1354 is the Hebrew word גַב, transliterated gab and said gab. The King James Version most often renders it bodies.
What it means
the back (as rounded); by analogy, the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc..
Where it comes from
from an unused root meaning to hollow or curve; (compare H1460 (גֵּו) and H1479 (גּוּף)).
How the King James Version translates it
Across 13 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.
Strong's own list of renderings: back, body, boss, eminent (higher) place, (eye) brows, nave, ring.
Verses using גַב
All 11 verses, quoted in full.
Leviticus 14:9 · KJV
But 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 7:33 · KJV
And 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 13:12 · KJV
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Job 15:26 · KJV
He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
Psalm 129:3 · KJV
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
Ezekiel 1:18 · KJV
As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
Ezekiel 10:12 · KJV
And 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 16:24 · KJV
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
Ezekiel 16:31 · KJV
In 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 16:39 · KJV
And 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.
Ezekiel 43:13 · KJV
And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
Common questions
What does Strong's H1354 mean?
H1354 is the Hebrew word גַב (gab), meaning the back (as rounded); by analogy, the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc..
How is H1354 translated in the King James Version?
The King James translators rendered it bodies (2 times), rings (2 times), thine eminent place (2 times), eyebrows (1 time), naves (1 time), among others.
How many times does H1354 appear in the Bible?
גַב (gab) is tagged in 11 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.
Where does H1354 come from?
Strong's gives its derivation as: from an unused root meaning to hollow or curve; (compare H1460 (גֵּו) and H1479 (גּוּף)).
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