5646. ab or ob
Lexicon
ab or ob: Medium, necromancer, spiritist

Original Word: עָב
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: `ab
Pronunciation: ohb
Phonetic Spelling: (awb)
KJV: thick (beam, plant)
NASB: threshold, thresholds
Word Origin: [from an unused root meaning to cover; properly, equivalent to H5645 (עָב - clouds)]

1. but used only as an architectural term, an architrave (as shading the pillars)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
thick beam, plant

Or sob {obe}; from an unused root meaning to cover; properly, equivalent to ab; but used only as an architectural term, an architrave (as shading the pillars) -- thick (beam, plant).

see HEBREW ab

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
perhaps a landing
NASB Translation
threshold (2), thresholds (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
I. עָב, [עֹב] noun masculine architectural term, meaning unknown; projecting roof is conjectured (Sm Co Berthol); others landing (Da); AV RV thick beam or plank, RVm threshold; Benz Kit Toy leave untranslated; in any case a structure of wood; — absolute וְעַמֻּדִים וְעָב 1 Kings 7:6; apparently construct וְעָב עֵץ אֶלמְּֿנֵי הָאוּלָם מֵהַחוּץ Ezekiel 41:25; plural (si vera lectio) הָעֻבִּים Ezekiel 41:26.

II. עָב see עוּב.

Forms and Transliterations
וְהָעֻבִּֽים׃ וְעָ֖ב וְעָ֥ב והעבים׃ ועב veAv vehaubBim wə‘āḇ wə·‘āḇ wə·hā·‘ub·bîm wəhā‘ubbîm
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Englishman's Concordance
1 Kings 7:6
HEB: פְּנֵיהֶ֔ם וְעַמֻּדִ֥ים וְעָ֖ב עַל־ פְּנֵיהֶֽם׃
NAS: of them and pillars and a threshold in front
KJV: them: and the [other] pillars and the thick beam [were] before them.
INT: front and pillars threshold in front

Ezekiel 41:25
HEB: עֲשׂוּיִ֖ם לַקִּיר֑וֹת וְעָ֥ב עֵ֛ץ אֶל־
NAS: on the walls; and [there was] a threshold of wood
KJV: upon the walls; and [there were] thick planks
INT: carved the walls and a threshold of wood on

Ezekiel 41:26
HEB: וְצַלְע֥וֹת הַבַּ֖יִת וְהָעֻבִּֽים׃
NAS: of the house and the thresholds.
KJV: of the house, and thick planks.
INT: thus the side of the house and the thresholds

3 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 5646
3 Occurrences


wə·‘āḇ — 2 Occ.
wə·hā·‘ub·bîm — 1 Occ.

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