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title: עֲבִי — thickness · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֲבִי (5672), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: thickness. BDB 1906: thickness. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֲבִי

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«עֲבִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **thickness** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 5672 · **BDB:** עֲבִי

### Glosses

thickness (3); the.thickness (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

thickness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5672/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

thickness [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5672/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] thickness;—cstr. ע׳ גַּבֵּי מָגִנָּיו Jb 15:26 the thickness (stoutness) of the bosses of his shields (in fig.); sf. עָבְיוֹ its thickness, of the molten sea 1 K 7:26 = 2 Ch 4:5; of pillar Je 52:21.—2 Ch 4:17 v. foll.—Under עבה belongs perhaps also בְּעַב הֶעָנָן Ex 19:9 (read בַּעֲבִי?) in the thickness of the clouds, cf. Bu Th Lz 1892 (3), 63 Kö ii 1, 86.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֲבִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5672/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 15:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.26/)

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יָר֣וּץ אֵלָ֣יו בְּצַוָּ֑אר בַּ֝עֲבִ֗י גַּבֵּ֥י מָֽגִנָּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* he.runs against him with a.neck with the.thickness of.the.bosses his.shields his

*JPS 1917:* He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers.

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[1 Kings 7:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.26/)

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וְעָבְי֣וֹ טֶ֔פַח וּשְׂפָת֛וֹ כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה שְׂפַת־כּ֖וֹס פֶּ֣רַח שׁוֹשָׁ֑ן אַלְפַּ֥יִם בַּ֖ת יָכִֽיל׃פ

*Word for word:* and thickness its \[was\].a.hand.breadth and lip its \[was\].like.\[the\] work of.\[the\].lip of.a.cup \[the\].blossom of.a.lily two.thousand bath\[s\] it.contained

*JPS 1917:* And it was a hand-breadth thick; and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held two thousand baths.

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