5014. nabab

Lexicon

nabab: To pierce, to hollow, to perforate

Original Word: נָבַב
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: nabab
Pronunciation: naw-bab'
Phonetic Spelling: (naw-bab')
KJV: hollow, vain
NASB: hollow
Word Origin: [a primitive root]

1. to pierce
2. to be hollow, or (figuratively) foolish

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

hollow, vain

A primitive root; to pierce; to be hollow, or (figuratively) foolish -- hollow, vain.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to hollow out
NASB Translation
hollow (3), idiot* (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[נָבַב] verb hollow out (compare Assyrian imbubu, flute, Dl^{HWB 443}, Late Hebrew אַבּוּב id., Aramaic אַבּוּבָא id.; hence also Arabic knots in reed, part of reed between knots, reed; see Hoffm^{LCB 1882, 321} Frä²³ Fl in Levy^{TW i. 417}); —

Qal Passive participle נָבוּב Job 11:12; Jeremiah 52:21; נְבוּב Exodus 27:8; Exodus 38:7; — hollowed, hollow: of altar of tabernacle נְבוּב לֻחוֺת Exodus 27:8; Exodus 38:7 (P); of pillar in temple Jeremiah 52:21; figurative אִישׁ נָבוּב Job 11:12, i.e. empty, hollow-minded man.

נֹ֫בֶה see נֹב.

Forms and Transliterations

נְב֥וּב נָ֭בוּב נָבֽוּב׃ נבוב נבוב׃ nā·ḇūḇ nāḇūḇ Navuv nə·ḇūḇ nəḇūḇ neVuv

Englishman's Concordance

Exodus 27:8
HEB: נְב֥וּב לֻחֹ֖ת תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה
NAS: You shall make it hollow with planks;
KJV: Hollow with boards shalt thou make
INT: hollow planks shall make

Exodus 38:7
HEB: אֹת֖וֹ בָּהֶ֑ם נְב֥וּב לֻחֹ֖ת עָשָׂ֥ה
NAS: it. He made it hollow with planks.
KJV: it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
INT: of the altar to carry hollow planks made

Job 11:12
HEB: וְאִ֣ישׁ נָ֭בוּב יִלָּבֵ֑ב וְעַ֥יִר
KJV: For vain man would be wise,
INT: man vain will become the foal

Jeremiah 52:21
HEB: אַרְבַּ֥ע אַצְבָּע֖וֹת נָבֽוּב׃
NAS: fingers in thickness, [and] hollow.
KJV: fingers: [it was] hollow.
INT: and four fingers hollow

4 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 5014
4 Occurrences

nā·ḇūḇ — 2 Occ.
nə·ḇūḇ — 2 Occ.