Strong's Definition
from an unused root meaning to hollow or curve; the back (as rounded (compare 1460 and 1479); by analogy, the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc.
KJV Usage: back, body, boss, eminent (higher) place, (eye)brows, nave, ring
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
גַּב (gav) — back/rim/brow. 1) convex surface, back 1a) back (of man) 1b) mound (for illicit worship) 1c) boss (convex projection of shield) 1d) bulwarks, breastworks (of arguments-fig.) 1e) brow, eyebrow 1f) rim (of wheel) Aramaic equivalent: gav (גַּב "back" H1355)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
Shape | ≈ רָמָה
mound, boss, structure meaning unsure; possibly: = a human-made object with a somewhat convex shape
back = the rear surface of the body of humans and supernatural beings
Collocation: גַּבֹּת עֵינַיִם
eyebrows = the hair growing on the ridge above a person’s eye socket
Vehicles | ≈ יָד · חִשּׁוּק · חִשּׁוּר
rim = the outer edge of a wheel, connected to the hub with spokes
1 EZK 16:24 · EZK 16:31 · EZK 16:39 RSV ESV "vaulted chamber" NIV NJB "mound" NJPS "eminence" NRSV "platform" REB "couch" 2 JOB 13:12 · JOB 13:12 RSV NIV NRSV ESV "defenses" NJPS "responses" NJB "retorts" REB GNT CEV "arguments"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
גַּב n.m. anything convex, curved, gibbous, e,g, back, chiefly late back
mound
boss, or convex projection, of shield
bulwarks, breastworks
brow
rim of wheel
base