H178 · אוֹב
ʼôwb · obe · familiar spirit, bottle
H178 (ʼôwb, pronounced obe) is the Hebrew word אוֹב in Strong’s dictionary: properly, a mumble, i.e. a water skin (from its hollow sound). It appears 17 times in 16 verses of the BSB (Yahweh).
Strong’s entry
- Original word
- אוֹב (Hebrew)
- Transliteration
- ʼôwb
- Pronunciation
- obe
- Derivation
- from the same as H1 (אָב) (apparently through the idea of prattling a father's name);
- Definition
- properly, a mumble, i.e. a water skin (from its hollow sound); hence a necromancer (ventriloquist, as from a jar)
- Rendered in the KJV
- bottle, familiar spirit.
In the Berean Standard Bible (Yahweh)
17 occurrences in 16 verses.
How the BSB renders it
- “a medium” ×5
- “mediums” ×5
- “the mediums” ×3
- “a spirit” ×1
- “like a spirit” ×1
- “to mediums” ×1
- “wineskin” ×1
By book
Leviticus 3 · Deuteronomy 1 · 1 Samuel 4 · 2 Kings 2 · 1 Chronicles 1 · 2 Chronicles 1 · Job 1 · Isaiah 3
Verses
- Leviticus 19:31
- Leviticus 20:6
- Leviticus 20:27
- Deuteronomy 18:11
- 1 Samuel 28:3
- 1 Samuel 28:7
- 1 Samuel 28:8
- 1 Samuel 28:9
- 2 Kings 21:6
- 2 Kings 23:24
- 1 Chronicles 10:13
- 2 Chronicles 33:6
- Job 32:19
- Isaiah 8:19
- Isaiah 19:3
- Isaiah 29:4
Related words
Numbers that share a root with H178.