Strong’s H5645 · Hebrew
עָב
ʻâb · awb
Origin (masculine and feminine); from עוּב (H5743);
Meaning properly, an envelope, i.e. darkness (or density, 2 Chronicles 4:17); specifically, a (scud) cloud; also a copse
In the King James Version clay, (thick) cloud, [idiom] thick, thicket. Compare עֲבִי (H5672).
In 32 verses of the King James Version
- Exodus 19:9And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
- Judges 5:4LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
- 2 Samuel 22:12And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
- 2 Samuel 23:4And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
- 1 Kings 18:44And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.
- 1 Kings 18:45And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
- 2 Chronicles 4:17In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
- Job 20:6Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
- Job 22:14Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
- Job 26:8He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
- Job 30:15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
- Job 36:29Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
- Job 37:11Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:
- Job 37:16Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
- Job 38:34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
- Psalms 18:11He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
- Psalms 18:12At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
- Psalms 77:17The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
- Psalms 104:3Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
- Psalms 147:8Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
- Proverbs 16:15In the light of the king’s countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
- Ecclesiastes 11:3If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
- Ecclesiastes 11:4He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
- Ecclesiastes 12:2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
- Isaiah 5:6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
- Isaiah 14:14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
- Isaiah 18:4For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
- Isaiah 19:1The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
- Isaiah 25:5Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
- Isaiah 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
- Isaiah 60:8Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
- Jeremiah 4:29The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.