Word

גִּבֵּן

gibbên · H1384 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. hunchbacked

    Person with a humped or crooked back, unable to become a priest

    Examples

    Leviticus 21:20 or a contorted back, or one who is a dwarf, or has a spot in his eye, or a festering rash or scabs, or crushed testicles.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

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 1 entry
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גִּבֵּן describes a person with a crooked or hunched back, listed among the physical conditions disqualifying a priest from service in Leviticus 21:20.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1384. gibben גִּבֵּן adjective crook-backed, hump-backed (compare Aramaic גְּבִין id.,…
H1384. gibben
גִּבֵּן adjective crook-backed, hump-backed (compare Aramaic גְּבִין id., Late Hebrew גַּבָּן highlander; also Late Hebrew גבין, Aramaic גבינא, , all = brow (eye-brow, etc.); compare Arabic side of forehead), Lev 21:20.

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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