נָבַב
navav · hollow
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5014 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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navav (נָבַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hollow”.
Empty inside; figuratively, empty-headed (Job 11:12).
How to say it
na·vav
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
- Empty inside.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Where it appears
- Exodus 27:8
Hollow, with planks, you shall make it; as it was shown you on the mountain, so they shall make it.
- Exodus 38:7
And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, to carry it with them; hollow, of planks, he made it.
- Job 11:12
And a hollow man will gain understanding when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being.
- 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.