King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H55
Transliteration: abak
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-bak')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to turn
Meaning: to coil upward
Word Summary
abak: to turn
Original Word: אָבַךְTransliteration: abak
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-bak')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to turn
Meaning: to coil upward
Strong's Concordance
mount up A primitive root; probably to coil upward -- mount up.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H55. abak
[אָבַךְ] verb turn (?) (compare Assyrian Abâku Dlw = הָפַךְ; Thes MV and others compare בוך)
Hithpa`el וַיִּתְאַבְכוּ Isaiah 9:17; roll, roll up, as volume of smoke (of Israel under figure of thickets of forest) see De & compare הִתִהַמֵּךְ Judges 7:3.