גָּבִישׁ
gâbîysh · H1378 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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crystal
A solidified rock, typically covered by many smooth faces, which often have geometrical shapes, appreciated for value and beauty
ExamplesJob 28:18 “Coral and crystal are not to be mentioned; And the acquisition of wisdom is more valuable than pearls.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- זָכַרto remember 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- רָאמָה râʼmâh · H7215 · coral, high
- Both words denote precious materials associated with the sea, one a pearl formed by mollusks and the other coral formed by marine organisms; they are commonly paired in ancient lists of valuable substances and were prized for ornamentation or valuation.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Word family 1 word
This word has no family of its own: these words share its root.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1378. gabish גָּבִישׁ noun masculine crystal (compare אֶלְגָּבִישׁ hail — on relation of…
גָּבִישׁ noun masculine crystal (compare אֶלְגָּבִישׁ hail — on relation of meanings compare Greek κρύσταλλος, & Ethiopic usage of DiLex. Aeth.759 — Arabic gypsum, Assyrian gibšu, mass, abundance, COT Gloss) — וְגָבִישׁ רָא֯מוֺת Job 28:18 coral and crystal.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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