גְּבִירָה
gᵉbîyrâh · H1377 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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queen
A respectful way of referring to the most prominent wife of the king
Examples1 Kings 11:19 Now Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
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queen mother, great lady
A respectful way of referring to the mother of the king
Examples1 Kings 15:13 And even his mother Maacah, he also removed her from the position of queen mother, because she had made an abominable image as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her abominable image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
2 Kings 10:13 Jehu encountered the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah, and he said, “Who are you?” And they answered, “We are the relatives of Ahaziah; and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and the sons of the queen mother.”
2 Chronicles 15:16 He also removed Maacah, the mother of King Asa, from the position of queen mother, because she had made an abominable image as an Asherah, and Asa cut down her abominable image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.
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
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- תַּחְפְּנֵיסTahpenes 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִןfrom 4
- לto/for 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בֵּןson 1
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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Semantic domains 2 entries
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- גְּבִירָה denotes a queen or queen mother, a woman holding a position of authority, as in Tahpenes the queen in 1 Kings 11:19.
- Titles003001017
- The word also functions as a formal court title, the queen mother, as in Maacah's removal from that position in 1 Kings 15:13.
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1377. gebirah גְּבִירָה noun feminine 1. lady, queen, 1Ki 11:19; 2 queen-mother, 1Ki…
גְּבִירָה noun feminine 1. lady, queen, 1Ki 11:19;
2 queen-mother, 1Ki 15:13 2Ch 15:16; מִגּ ׳וַיְסִרֶהָ he removed her from (the position of) queen-mother; compare 2Ki 10:13; Jer 13:18; Jer 29:2.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 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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