גֵּב
gêb · H1356 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
A word for 2 things
- CisternBuildings and Structures71 verses
- Crossbeam, rafterRoof, housetop9 verses
Meanings
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a pool or puddle
A depression at the bottom of a waterbody where water can still be found even when most of the water has dried up
Examples2 Kings 3:16 And he said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Make this valley full of trenches.’
Jeremiah 14:3 “Their nobles have sent their servants for water; They have come to the cisterns and found no water. They have returned with their containers empty; They have been put to shame and humiliated, And they cover their heads,
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beam
A long sturdy piece of squared timber or metal used horizontally in a building to support a load above
Examples1 Kings 6:9 So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Second object ofSecond object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 2
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶרֶזcedar 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- βόθυνος bóthynos · G999 · pit, ditch, hole
- Greek βόθυνος renders Hebrew גֵּב in contexts denoting a pit or hole in the ground, representing the LXX translators' standard lexical choice for this Hebrew term's pit/ditch sense.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Waterbodies001002008
- גֵּב (beam/ditch/pit) can denote a water-holding pit or cistern, as in the empty cisterns of Jeremiah 14:3 and the trenches of 2 Kings 3:16.
- Swarming Creatures001001002006
- This code is inherited from the shared listing with the homographic locust-noun גֵּב (gêb, H1357); it does not independently apply to the beam/ditch/pit sense attested in these citations.
- Constructions001003002
- The word also denotes a structural beam used in building, as in the cedar beams and planks covering the temple in 1 Kings 6:9.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1356. geb II. [גֵּב] pit, III. [גֵּב] beam, see below גוב. II. גֵּב noun [masculine]…
II. [גֵּב] pit, III. [גֵּב] beam, see below גוב.
II. גֵּב noun [masculine] pit, ditch, trench, (Arabic hollow, depression; Syriac cistern) — only plural גֵּבִים Jer 14:3; in 2Ki 3:16 גבים גבים, i.e. full of ditches; further, cisterns (according to Klo 2Ki 25:12) Jer 39:10 וִּיגֵבִים (read וְגֵבִים); compare also || 2Ki 25:12 (ולגבים Kt, וּלְיוֺגְבִים Qr) = Jer 52:16 (וּלְֹיגְבִים; both with כֹּרְמִים); Klo propose to emend these, so as to read in all וְגֵבִים כְּרָמִים לָהֶם וַיִּתֵּן and gave to them vineyards and cisterns; another view in Th; compare further יגב גוב,. — I. גֵּב see below גבה.
III. [גֵּב] noun [masculine] beam, rafter? (Thes below גוב, but meaning & √ dubious), גֵּבִים 1Ki 6:9; but LagArmen. Stud. § 499, M i. 212; BN 155 reads גֻּבְּדִים (Persian , Armenian γμβεθ) vaulted roofs.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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