# H5645 עָב

עָב (ʻâb), Strong’s H5645: properly, an envelope, i.e. darkness (or density, 2 Chronicles 4:17); specifically, a (scud) cloud; also a copse KJV: clay, (thick) cloud, [idiom] thick, thicket. Compare…

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

KJV: clay, (thick) cloud, [idiom] thick, thicket. Compare H5672 (עֲבִי).

Derived from [עוּב ʻûwb](https://besorah.bible/word/H5743) (to be dense or dark, i.e. to becloud)

Occurs 32 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- עָב 53 n.m. dark cloud, cloud-mass, thicket

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 19:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/19?v=9) — The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and…
- [Judges 5:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/5?v=4) — “LORD, when you went out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped…
- [2 Samuel 22:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/22?v=12) — He made darkness a shelter around himself, gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
- [2 Samuel 23:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/23?v=4) — shall be as the light of the morning when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of…
- [1 Kings 18:44](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/18?v=44) — On the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a small cloud, like a man’s hand, is rising out of the sea.” He said, “Go up…
- [1 Kings 18:45](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/18?v=45) — In a little while, the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
- [Isaiah 5:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/5?v=6) — I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned or hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the…
- [Isaiah 14:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/14?v=14) — I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”
- [Isaiah 18:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/18?v=4) — For the LORD said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a…
- [Isaiah 19:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/19?v=1) — The burden of Egypt. “Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at…