Dict: smith - NAVE

smith:

NAVE - N>@ - (Heb. gao), anything convex or arched, as the boss of a shield, kjv@Job:15:26) the eyebrows, kjv@Leviticus:14:9) an eminent place. kjv@Ezekiel:16:31) It is rendered once only in the plural, "naves," (Kings:7:33) meaning the centres of the wheels in which the spokes are inserted i.e. the hubs. In kjv@Ezekiel:1:18) it is rendered twice "rings," and margin "strakes," an old word apparently used for the nave (hub) of a wheel and also more probably for the felloe or the tire, as making the streak or stroke upon the ground.