עָבָה
ava · grow thick
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5666 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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ava (עָבָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grow thick”.
Become fat.
How to say it
a·va
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
- To become broad and heavy.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- thicker ×2
- you grew thick ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 32:15
And Jeshurun grew fat and kicked —you grew fat, you grew thick, you were covered with fat— and he forsook Eloah who made him and dishonored the Rock of his salvation.
- 1 Kings 12:10
The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made heavy our yoke, but you, lighten it from on us’; thus you shall speak to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than the waist of my father.
- 2 Chronicles 10:10
The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall say to the people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made heavy our yoke, but you, lighten it from on us’; thus you shall say to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than the waist of my father.