אוֹב
ʼôwb · obe
properly, a mumble, i.e. a water skin (from its hollow sound); hence a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar)
Lexicon
Derivation: from the same as H1 (אָב) (apparently through the idea of prattling a father's name);
properly, a mumble, i.e. a water skin (from its hollow sound); hence a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar)
- properly, a mumble, i.e. a water skin (from its hollow sound)
- hence, a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bottle, familiar spirit.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › to fasten and establish › the house, what is within
Strength, the leader that works to fasten and establish of the house, what is within.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אוֹב above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
17 occurrences · 17 OT · 0 NT · 14 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- a familiar spirit3 · 18%
- with familiar spirits2 · 12%
- not them that have familiar spirits1 · 6%
- such as have familiar spirits1 · 6%
- those that had familiar spirits1 · 6%
- unto me by the familiar spirit1 · 6%
- those that have familiar spirits1 · 6%
- moreover the workers with familiar spirits1 · 6%
- counsel of one that had a familiar spirit1 · 6%
- with a familiar spirit1 · 6%
- bottles1 · 6%
- unto them that have familiar spirits1 · 6%
- and to them that have familiar spirits1 · 6%
- shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit1 · 6%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.