עָב ʻâb

Meaning

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

In the King James Version: clay, (thick) cloud, [idiom] thick, thicket. Compare H5672 (עֲבִי).

Derivation: (masculine and feminine); from H5743 (עוּב);

Where it is used

• Exodus 19:9 The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you, and they will always put their trust in you.” And Moses relayed to the LORD what the people had said.
• Judges 5:4 O LORD, when You went out from Seir, when You marched from the land of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured out rain, and the clouds poured down water.
• 2 Samuel 22:12 He made darkness a canopy around Him, a gathering of water and thick clouds.
• 2 Samuel 23:4 is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
• 1 Kings 18:44 On the seventh time the servant reported, “There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.” And Elijah replied, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”
• 1 Kings 18:45 Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.
• Job 20:6 Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
• Job 22:14 Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’
• Job 26:8 He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
• Job 30:15 Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
• Job 36:29 Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?
• Job 37:11 He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
• Job 37:16 Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
• Job 38:34 Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
• Psalms 18:11 He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
• Psalms 18:12 From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced—hailstones and coals of fire.
• Psalms 77:17 The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.
• Psalms 104:3 laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
• Psalms 147:8 who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
• Proverbs 16:15 When a king’s face brightens, there is life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.
• Ecclesiastes 11:3 If the clouds are full, they will pour out rain upon the earth; whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there it will lie.
• Ecclesiastes 11:4 He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.
• Ecclesiastes 12:2 before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
• Isaiah 5:6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
• Isaiah 14:14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
• Isaiah 18:4 For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
• Isaiah 19:1 This is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them.
• Isaiah 25:5 like heat in a dry land. You subdue the uproar of foreigners. As the shade of a cloud cools the heat, so the song of the ruthless is silenced.
• Isaiah 44:22 I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.
• Isaiah 60:8 Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?
• Jeremiah 4:29 Every city flees at the sound of the horseman and archer. They enter the thickets and climb among the rocks. Every city is abandoned; no inhabitant is left.