TBESH · H5645
עָב · av · cloud
1) darkness, cloud, thicket 1a) dark cloud 1b) cloud mass 1c) thicket (as refuge)
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av H5645
עָב (av) means “cloud” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
עָב Hebrew · H5645 31 tagged occurrences in 31 verses
Pronunciation guide: awb Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
(masculine and feminine); from H5743 (עוּב); properly, an envelope, i.e. darkness (or density, 2 Chronicles 4:17); specifically, a (scud) cloud; also a copse
KJV glosses: clay, (thick) cloud, [idiom] thick, thicket. Compare H5672 (עֲבִי).
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How translators render H5645
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the clouds | 10 |
| like a cloud | 3 |
| with clouds | 2 |
| a cloud | 1 |
| and the clouds | 1 |
| and thick clouds | 1 |
| cloud | 1 |
| clouds | 1 |
| his clouds | 1 |
| how the clouds | 1 |
| in his clouds | 1 |
| is like a rain cloud | 1 |
| like clouds | 1 |
| of a cloud | 1 |
| of the clouds | 1 |
| the thickets | 1 |
| thick clouds | 1 |
| you in a dense | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the clouds | 5 |
| as a cloud | 3 |
| of the clouds | 3 |
| thick clouds | 3 |
| cloud | 2 |
| with clouds | 2 |
| as a thick cloud | 1 |
| before him his thick clouds | 1 |
| clouds | 1 |
| if the clouds | 1 |
| in his thick clouds | 1 |
| into thickets | 1 |
| like a cloud | 1 |
| nor the clouds | 1 |
| of a cloud | 1 |
| the thick cloud | 1 |
| them in the clay | 1 |
| to the clouds | 1 |
| unto the clouds | 1 |
| unto thee in a thick | 1 |
Verses containing H5645
Page 1 of 1. 31 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Exodus 19:9
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you, and they will always put their trust in you.” And Moses relayed to the LORD what the people had said.
Read word by word - Judges 5:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 22:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He made darkness a canopy around Him, a gathering of water and thick clouds.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 23:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
Read word by word - 1 Kings 18:44
· BSB · 1 occurrence
On the seventh time the servant reported, “There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.” And Elijah replied, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”
Read word by word - 1 Kings 18:45
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.
Read word by word - Job 20:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
Read word by word - Job 22:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’
Read word by word - Job 26:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
Read word by word - Job 30:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
Read word by word - Job 36:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?
Read word by word - Job 37:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
Read word by word - Job 37:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
Read word by word - Job 38:34
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
Read word by word - Psalms 18:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 18.12
- Psalms 18:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced—hailstones and coals of fire.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 18.13
- Psalms 77:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 77.18
- Psalms 104:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
Read word by word - Psalms 147:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
Read word by word - Proverbs 16:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When a king’s face brightens, there is life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 11:3
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 11:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.
Read word by word - Ecclesiastes 12:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
Read word by word - Isaiah 5:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 14:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 18:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
Read word by word - Isaiah 19:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them.
Read word by word - Isaiah 25:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.
Read word by word - Isaiah 44:22
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
Read word by word - Isaiah 60:8
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?
Read word by word - Jeremiah 4:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.
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