עֲבִי
avi · thickness
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5672 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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avi (עֲבִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “thickness”.
Of something.
How to say it
a·vi
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
- The depth of a solid from face to face.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Where it appears
- 1 Kings 7:26
And its thickness was a handbreadth, and its rim like the work of the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it held two thousand baths.
- 2 Chronicles 4:5
Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its rim was like the work of the rim of a cup, a lily flower; it took in and held three thousand baths.
- Job 15:26
he runs at him with his neck erect, with the thickness of the bosses of his shields;
- Jeremiah 52:21
As for the pillars, eighteen cubits was the height of the one pillar, and a thread of twelve cubits went around it, and its thickness was four fingers; it was hollow.