Gab — H1354

Definition

masculine noun

1. convex surface, back
1. back (of man)
2. mound (for illicit worship)
3. boss (convex projection of shield)
4. bulwarks, breastworks (of arguments-fig.)
5. brow, eyebrow
6. rim (of wheel)

the back (as rounded); by analogy, the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc.

Usually translated as

place, eyebrows, back, body, boss, eminent, brows, nave, ring

Origin

from an unused root meaning to hollow or curve; (compare H1460 and H1479)

• Gêv (H1460)
• Gûwph (H1479)

Greek equivalents

• nōtos (G3577)
• oíkēma (G3612)
• ophrŷs (G3790)

Occurrences

Gab occurs 13 times in 11 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (1), 1 Kings (1), Job (2), Psalms (1), Ezekiel (6)

• Leviticus 14:9 — But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows (גַּבֹּ֣ת), 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 — And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves (וְגַבֵּיהֶ֗ם), and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
• Job 13:12 — Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies (לְגַבֵּי) to bodies of clay.
• Job 13:12 — Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies (גַּבֵּיכֶֽם) of clay.
• Job 15:26 — He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses (גַּבֵּ֥י) of his bucklers:
• Psalms 129:3 — The plowers plowed upon my back (גַּ֭בִּי): they made long their furrows.
• Ezekiel 1:18 — As for their rings (וְגַ֨בֵּיהֶ֔ן), they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
• Ezekiel 1:18 — As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings (וְגַבֹּתָ֗ם) were full of eyes round about them four.
• Ezekiel 10:12 — And their whole body, and their backs (וְגַבֵּהֶ֔ם), 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 — That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place (גֶּ֑ב), and hast made thee an high place in every street.
• Ezekiel 16:31 — In that thou buildest thine eminent place (גַּבֵּךְ֙) 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 — And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place (גַבֵּךְ֙), 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 — 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 (גַּ֥ב) of the altar.