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Exodus 19:9 בְּעַ֣ב in [the] dark cloud of

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.

Here: 'Av is a dark, dense mass of cloud. Here it is joined to the next word to form a phrase found nowhere else: 'the thick mass of the cloud,' a cloud so dense nothing can be seen through it.

Judges 5:4 עָבִ֖ים [the] clouds

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.

Here: Heavy, dark rain clouds, the kind that blacken the sky before a downpour (compare 1 Kings 18:44–45). Elsewhere they are also God's chariot.

2 Samuel 22:12 עָבֵ֥י dark clouds of

He made darkness a canopy around Him, a gathering of water and thick clouds.

2 Samuel 23:4 עָב֔וֹת clouds

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.’

Here: Dense cloud masses that block the sun. Their absence means the light reaches everything unhindered.

1 Kings 18:44 עָ֛ב a cloud

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 עָבִ֣ים clouds

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 לָעָ֥ב to the cloud[s]

Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

Job 22:14 עָבִ֣ים clouds

Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’

Job 26:8 בְּעָבָ֑יו in clouds his

He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.

Here: 'In his clouds': the heavy, rain-bearing kind, acting as the wrapping that holds the water. The word 'his' makes them God's own property and equipment.

Job 30:15 וּ֝כְעָ֗ב and like a cloud

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 עָ֑ב dark cloud

Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?

Job 37:11 עָ֑ב [the] dark cloud[s]

He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.

Job 37:16 עָ֑ב [the] cloud[s]

Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

Here: The dense, dark rain cloud, and in Job the cloud that holds back water (26:8). The singular is collective and means the cloud mass of the sky.

Job 38:34 לָעָ֣ב to the cloud[s]

Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

Psalm 18:11 עָבֵ֥י dark clouds of

He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.

Psalm 18:12 עָבָ֥יו dark clouds his

From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced—hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalm 77:17 עָב֗וֹת clouds

The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.

Psalm 104:3 עָבִ֥ים clouds

laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

Here: The dense, dark rain clouds of the Levantine sky. This is not wispy cirrus. These are the storm clouds that bring rain, thunder and lightning (YLT: 'thick clouds').

Psalm 147:8 בְּעָבִ֗ים with clouds

who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.

Here: "With clouds": the thick, dark clouds that bring rain. To someone in Israel, a sky going dark with these clouds was good news, because it meant the rain was coming.

Proverbs 16:15 כְּעָ֣ב [is] like a cloud of

When a king’s face brightens, there is life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring.

Ecclesiastes 11:3 הֶעָבִ֥ים the clouds

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.

Here: The dense, dark clouds that bring rain, not a thin haze. The same word comes back in v. 4 ('he who observes the clouds'), so this verse prepares the warning that follows.

Ecclesiastes 11:4 בֶעָבִ֖ים on the clouds

He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap.

Here: 'At the clouds.' The little word 'at' (Hebrew be-) with the verb 'see' usually means staring, gazing intently. The 'avim are the dark clouds that carry rain, the same clouds that 'pour out rain upon the earth' in verse 3.

Ecclesiastes 12:2 הֶעָבִ֖ים the clouds

before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,

Isaiah 5:6 הֶעָבִים֙ the clouds

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.”

Here: The dense rain-clouds of the Levantine winter. Every harvest in the hill country depended on them.

Isaiah 14:14 עָ֑ב [the] cloud[s]

I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

Isaiah 18:4 כְּעָ֥ב like a cloud of

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.”

Here: 'Like a cloud of …', the second comparison. In context this is a low mist or haze of moisture, not a rain cloud.

Isaiah 19:1 עָ֥ב a cloud

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.

Here: Not a wisp of white but a dense, dark rain- or storm-cloud mass. It is the cloud of storm and of God's veiled presence (Exod 19:9, 'I will come to you in a thick cloud').

Isaiah 25:5 עָ֔ב a cloud

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 כָעָב֙ like <the> dark cloud

I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

Here: "Like the thick cloud." This is the heavy, dark cloud, often a rain cloud. The comparison works two ways at once: the sins were dense and dark like such a cloud, and they are now gone the way a cloud breaks up and leaves no trace.

Isaiah 60:8 כָּעָ֣ב like <the> cloud

Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?

Jeremiah 4:29 בֶּעָבִ֔ים in the thickets

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.