Limitless Word
עָבʻâb/awb/
HebrewH564532 occurrences (KJV)

properly, an envelope, i.e. darkness (or density, 2 Chronicles 4:17); specifically, a (scud) cloud; also a copse

KJV renders it: clay, (thick) cloud, [idiom] thick, thicket. Compare H5672 (עֲבִי).

Where it appears

  • Exod 19:9Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.” Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh.
  • Judg 5:4“Yahweh, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.
  • 2 Sam 22:12He made darkness a shelter around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
  • 2 Sam 23:4shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.’
  • 1 Kgs 18:44On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.” He said, “Go up, tell Ahab, ‘Get ready and go down, so that the rain doesn’t stop you.’”
  • 1 Kgs 18:45In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
  • 2 Chr 4:17The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
  • Job 20:6Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
  • Job 22:14Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’
  • Job 26:8He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
  • Job 30:15Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
  • Job 36:29Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?
  • Job 37:11Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.
  • Job 37:16Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?
  • Job 38:34“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?
  • Ps 18:11He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
  • Ps 18:12At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.
  • Ps 77:17The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.
  • Ps 104:3He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.
  • Ps 147:8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
  • Prov 16:15In the light of the king’s face is life. His favor is like a cloud of the spring rain.
  • Eccl 11:3If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there shall it be.
  • Eccl 11:4He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap.
  • Eccl 12:2Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;
  • Isa 5:6I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
  • Isa 14:14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”
  • Isa 18:4For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
  • Isa 19:1The burden of Egypt: “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.
  • Isa 25:5As the heat in a dry place will you bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the dreaded ones will be brought low.
  • Isa 44:22I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
  • Isa 60:8“Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
  • Jer 4:29Every city flees for the noise of the horsemen and archers; they go into the thickets, and climb up on the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwells therein.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.