gav · curve, back, eyebrow

What it means

gav (גַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “curve, back, eyebrow”.

The curved or raised part of something: the back, the rim. "The curves of the eyes" are the eyebrows (Leviticus 14:9).

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. The back of the body, from the neck to the waist.
2. A curved or raised part of something.
3. A shrine raised to idols.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• rims ×3
• defenses ×2
• mound ×2
• When you built ×1
• back ×1
• backs ×1
• bosses ×1
• brows ×1
• elevation ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×1
• Ezekiel×7

• Leviticus 14:9

  On the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair: his head, his beard, and the brows of his eyes; all his hair he shall shave off; he shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water, and he will be clean.

• 1 Kings 7:33

  And the work of the wheels was like the work of the wheel of a chariot: their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs, all was cast.

• Job 13:12

  Your memorials are proverbs of ash; defenses of clay are your defenses.

• Job 15:26

  he runs at him with his neck erect, with the thickness of the bosses of his shields;

• Psalms 129:3

  On my back plowers plowed; they made long their furrows.

• Ezekiel 1:18

  And their rims had height and were fearsome; and their rims were full of eyes all around in the four of them.

• Ezekiel 10:12

  And all their flesh, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all around; the four of them had their wheels.

• Ezekiel 16:24

  that you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty place in every square.

• Ezekiel 16:31

  When you built your mound at the head of every road and made your lofty place in every square, you were not like the prostitute, for you scoffed at the fee.

• Ezekiel 16:39

  And I will give you into their hand, and they will tear down your mound and demolish your lofty places, and they will strip you of your garments and take your objects of beauty, and leave you naked and bare.

• Ezekiel 43:13

  And these are the measurements of the altar in cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth): the base, a cubit, and a cubit wide, and its border on its rim all around, one span; and this is the elevation of the altar.

And 2 more times.