Strong's #5645: `ab (pronounced awb)

(masculine and feminine); from 5743; properly, an envelope, i.e. darkness (or density, 2 Chron. 4:17); specifically, a (scud) cloud; also a copse:--clay, (thick) cloud, X thick, thicket. Compare 5672.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛âb

1) darkness, cloud, thicket

1a) dark cloud

1b) cloud mass

1c) thicket (as refuge)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H5743

Usage:

This word is used 32 times:

 

Exodus 19:9: "I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear"
Judges 5:4: "the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped"
2 Samuel 22:12: "round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies."
2 Samuel 23:4: "riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining"
1 Kings 18:44: "Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand."
1 Kings 18:45: "in the meanwhile, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind,"
Job 20:6: "to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;"
Job 22:14: " Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven."
Job 26:8: "He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under"
Job 30:15: "as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud."
Job 36:29: "Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?"
Job 37:11: "Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:"
Job 37:16: "Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?"
Job 38:34: "Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover"
Psalms 18:11: "round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies."
Psalms 18:12: "At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire."
Psalms 77:17: " The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also"
Psalms 104:3: "of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings"
Psalms 147:8: "Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow"
Proverbs 16:15: "countenance is life; and his favor is as a cloud of the latter rain."
Ecclesiastes 11:3: "If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if"
Ecclesiastes 11:4: "shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap."
Ecclesiastes 12:2: "or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:"
Isaiah 5:6: "briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain"
Isaiah 14:14: "I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High."
Isaiah 18:4: "heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."
Isaiah 19:1: "rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt"
Isaiah 25:5: "in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low."
Isaiah 44:22: "I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for"
Isaiah 60:8: "Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?"
Jeremiah 4:29: "for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks:"
Ezekiel 41:25: "like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch"