SG Heritage Dictionary

Hollow [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Containing an empty space, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; as a hollow tree; a hollow rock; a hollow sphere.

2. Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. Exodus 27:8 .

3. Sunk deep in the orbit; as a hollow eye.

4. Deep; low; resembling sound reverberated from a cavity, or designating such a sound; as a hollow roar.

5. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as a hollow heart; a hollow friend.

6. Hollow spar, the mineral called also chiastolite.

Hollow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A cavity, natural or artificial; any depression of surface in a body; concavity; as the hollow of the hand.

2. A place excavated; as the hollow of a tree.

3. A cave or cavern; a den; a hole; a broad open space in any thing.

4. A pit.

5. Open space of any thing; a groove; a channel; a canal.

Hollow [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To shout. [ See Holla and Hollo .]

Hollow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To make hollow as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.

2. Trees rudely hollowed did the waves sustain.

Hollow [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.

2. Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.

3. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.

4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.

Hollow [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv.

Hollow [Interjection] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Hollo.

Hollow [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.

2. A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.

Hollow [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To shout; to hollo.

Hollow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.

2. To urge or call by shouting.

Hollow-eyed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having sunken eyes.

Hollow-hearted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; of practice or sentiment different from profession.

Hollow-hearted [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within.

Hollow-horned [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.

Hollow-root [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant, tuberous moschatel, or inglorious, constituting the genus Adoxa; a low plant, whose leaves and flowers smell like musk; hence it is sometimes called musk-crowfoot.

Hollowed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Made hollow; excavated.

Hollowed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Hollow

Hollowing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Making hollow; excavating.

Hollowing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Hollow

Hollowly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Insincerely; deceitfully.

Hollowly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Insincerely; deceitfully.

Hollowness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The state of being hollow; cavity; depression of surface; excavation.

2. Insincerity; deceitfulness; treachery.

Hollowness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. State of being hollow.

2. Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery.

King James Bible KJV Bible

Berean Standard Bible BSB Bible

11 KJV and 9 BSB verses contain “hollow”

Genesis 32:25

And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.

When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.

Genesis 32:32

Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank.

Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon which is at the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob’s hip was struck near that tendon.

Exodus 27:8

Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.

Exodus 38:7

And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.

Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar for carrying it. He made the altar with boards so that it was hollow.

Leviticus 14:37

And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;

He is to examine the house, and if the mildew on the walls consists of green or red depressions that appear to be beneath the surface of the wall,

Numbers 21:18

The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:

The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people hollowed it out with their scepters and with their staffs.” From the wilderness the Israelites went on to Mattanah,

Judges 15:19

But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.

So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.

Psalms 7:15

He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

Isaiah 40:12

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?

Jeremiah 52:21

And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.

Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.

Zephaniah 1:11

Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.

Wail, O dwellers of the Hollow, for all your merchants will be silenced; all who weigh out silver will be cut off.

Zechariah 1:8

I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.

I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.

Wisdom of Solomon 17:19

Or a terrible sound of stones cast down, or a running that could not be seen of skipping beasts, or a roaring voice of most savage wild beasts, or a rebounding echo from the hollow mountains; these things made them to swoon for fear.

2 Maccabees 1:19

For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that were then devout took the fire of the altar privily, and hid it in an hollow place of a pit without water, where they kept it sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.

2 Maccabees 2:5

And when Jeremy came thither, he found an hollow cave, wherein he laid the tabernacle, and the ark, and the altar of incense, and so stopped the door.