Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to roll up
Usage: 1) to roll, turn 1a) (Hithpael) to roll, roll up, billow
Abak means “mount up” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G55 — hagnos (“sincerely”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H55 אָבַך (abak) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. abak (aw-bak') v. 1. probably to coil upward [a primitive root] It has 1 linked Bible usage across 1 book. Visible English usage signals include mount. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
abak (aw-bak') v. 1. probably to coil upward [a primitive root] KJV: mount up.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H55. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to roll up
Usage: 1) to roll, turn 1a) (Hithpael) to roll, roll up, billow
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render abak, 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.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in Old Testament.
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
First 1 linked usage excerpt for Strong's H55.
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H55, grouped by book.
Abak (Strong's H55) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "mount up". abak (aw-bak') v. 1. probably to coil upward [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 1 linked usage for Strong's H55 across 1 book.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H55 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as mount. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.