av · thick cloud

What it means

av (עָב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thick cloud”.

Thick, dark cloud.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A dark, laden cloud that brings rain or storm.
2. A thickly wooded place, where one can hide.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• clouds ×15
• cloud ×13
• thick ×2
• thickets ×1
• thickness ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×8
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×3
• Isaiah×7
• Jeremiah×1

• Exodus 19:9

  YHWH said to Moses, “Look, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe in you forever.” Then Moses told the words of the people to YHWH.

• Judges 5:4

  YHWH, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens also dripped, the clouds also dripped water.

• 2 Samuel 22:12

  He made darkness around him his booths, a mass of waters, thick clouds.

• 2 Samuel 23:4

  is like the light of morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds; from the brightness, from the rain, springs vegetation from the earth.’

• 1 Kings 18:44

  And it happened at the seventh time that he said, “Look, a small cloud, like the palm of a man, is rising from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Hitch your chariot and go down, so that the rain does not stop you.’”

• 1 Kings 18:45

  And it happened, in the meantime, that the heavens grew dark with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode in his chariot and went to Jezreel.

• 2 Chronicles 4:17

  In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the thickness of the ground, between Succoth and Zeredathah.

• Job 20:6

  Though his haughtiness rise up to the heavens, and his head reach to the cloud,

• Job 22:14

  Clouds are a hiding place for him, and he does not see; and on the circle of the heavens he walks about.’

• Job 26:8

  He binds up the waters in his clouds, and the cloud is not split beneath them.

• Job 30:15

  Terrors are turned upon me; they pursue like the wind my nobility, and like a cloud my salvation has passed away.

• Job 36:29

  Can anyone understand the spreadings of the cloud, the clamor of his booth?

• Job 37:11

  Also with moisture he loads the cloud; he scatters the cloud of his light.

• Job 37:16

  Do you know about the balancings of the cloud, the wonders of the one blameless in knowledge?

• Job 38:34

  Can you lift up your voice to the cloud, so that an abundance of waters covers you?

• Psalms 18:11

  He made darkness his hiding place, his booth around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds.

• Psalms 18:12

  From the brightness before him his clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

• Psalms 77:17

  The thick clouds poured out water; the clouds gave voice; your arrows also went to and fro.

• Psalms 104:3

  who lays the beams of his upper rooms on the waters, who makes the clouds his chariot, who walks on the wings of the wind,

• Psalms 147:8

  who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes sprout grass on the mountains,

• Proverbs 16:15

  In the light of the face of a king is life, and his favor is like a cloud of the late rain.

• Ecclesiastes 11:3

  If the clouds are full of rain, on the earth they empty it; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will be.

• Ecclesiastes 11:4

  Whoever watches the wind will not sow, and whoever looks at the clouds will not reap.

• Ecclesiastes 12:2

  before the sun is darkened, and the light, and the moon and the stars, and the clouds return after the rain;

• Isaiah 5:6

  And I will make it a waste; it will not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns will come up; and the clouds I will command not to rain rain on it.

• Isaiah 14:14

  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like Elyon.’

• Isaiah 18:4

  For thus YHWH said to me: “I will be still and look from my dwelling place, like dazzling heat over the light, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

• Isaiah 19:1

  The burden of Egypt. Look, YHWH is riding on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt tremble before him, and the heart of Egypt melts within it.

• Isaiah 25:5

  Like heat in a dry land, the uproar of strangers you subdue; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the tyrants is brought low.

• Isaiah 44:22

  I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your transgressions, and like a cloud, your sins; return to me, for I have redeemed you.”

• Isaiah 60:8

  Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows?

• Jeremiah 4:29

  At the noise of horseman and archer every city flees; they go into the thickets and climb up among the rocks; every city is forsaken, and no man lives in them.