Gab means “back” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1354 — dionysios (“Dionysius”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1354 גַּב (gab) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. gab (gab) n-e. 1. the back (as rounded) 2. by analogy, the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc It has 11 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include round, back, and backs. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
gab (gab) n-e. 1. the back (as rounded) 2. by analogy, the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc [from an unused root meaning to hollow or curve] KJV: back, body, boss, eminent (higher) place, (eye)brows, nave, ring. Compare: H1460, H1479
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back/rim/brow
Usage: 1) convex surface, back 1a) back (of man) 1b) mound (for illicit worship) 1c) boss (convex projection of shield) 1d) bulwarks, breastworks (of arguments-fig.) 1e) brow, eyebrow 1f) rim (of wheel) Aramaic equivalent: gav (גַּב "back" H1355)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render gab, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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11 indexed usages in Old Testament.
But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
First 11 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1354.
But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.
That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire;
And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.
And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1354, grouped by book.
Gab (Strong's H1354) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "back". gab (gab) n-e. 1. the back (as rounded) 2. by analogy, the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc
This page currently indexes 11 linked usages for Strong's H1354 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1354 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as round, back, and backs. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.