Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
cloud
Usage: 1) darkness, cloud, thicket 1a) dark cloud 1b) cloud mass 1c) thicket (as refuge)
Ab means “clay” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H5645 עָב (`ab) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `ab (awb) ((masculine and feminine)) n-m. 1. (properly) an envelope, i.e. darkness (or density, 2 Chron. 4 2. specifically, a (scud) cloud It has 32 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include clouds, cloud, and darkness. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`ab (awb) ((masculine and feminine)) n-m. 1. (properly) an envelope, i.e. darkness (or density, 2 Chron. 4 2. specifically, a (scud) cloud 3. also a copse [from H5743] KJV: clay, (thick) cloud, X thick, thicket. Root(s): H5743 Compare: H5672
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cloud
Usage: 1) darkness, cloud, thicket 1a) dark cloud 1b) cloud mass 1c) thicket (as refuge)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `ab, 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.
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32 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
First 32 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5645.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down that the rain stop thee not.
And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:
Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?
The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5645, grouped by book.
Ab (Strong's H5645) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "clay". `ab (awb) ((masculine and feminine)) n-m. 1. (properly) an envelope, i.e. darkness (or density, 2 Chron. 4 2. specifically, a (scud) cloud
This page currently indexes 32 linked usages for Strong's H5645 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5645 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as clouds, cloud, and darkness. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.