גַּבְנֹן
gabnôn · H1386 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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peak, summit
Exact meaning unknown; probably: top of a mountain or hill
ExamplesPsalm 68:15 The mountain of Bashan is a mountain of God; The mountain of Bashan is a mountain of many peaks.
How it’s used In 2 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
- הַרmountain 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הַרmountain 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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Contrasting words 1 word
- שָׁפָל shâphâl · H8217 · low, deep
- Hebrew adjective meaning 'low' or 'lowly,' the direct lexical opposite of 'high' in the spatial/topographical sense. Used of low-lying places and valleys in contrast to elevated terrain.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ὑψηλός hypsēlós · G5308 · high, tall, world above
- Standard Greek adjective for 'high' or 'lofty,' the natural translation equivalent for the Hebrew גַּבְנֹן describing elevated terrain or landforms.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Landforms001002003
- גַּבְנֹן describes a mountain peak or summit, as in Psalm 68:16-17's reference to the mountains of many peaks envying the mountain God has chosen as His dwelling.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1386. gabnon [גַּבְנֹן] noun [masculine] peak, rounded summit; plural ׃גַּבְנֻנִּים Psa…
[גַּבְנֹן] noun [masculine] peak, rounded summit; plural ׃גַּבְנֻנִּים Psa 68:16 הַרגֿ הַרבָּֿשָׁ֑ן ׳הַראֱֿלֹהִים הַרבָּֿשָֽׁן׃; ג ׳הָרִים Psa 68:17 (appositive, Thes Dr§ 188 and others; others adjective many-peaked). compare WetzstBatan. Giebelgeb. 1884.
גבע (convex, projecting, high; compare Aramaic Pa`el גַּבַּע swell, swell up, גְּבִיעַ hump-backed, גִּבְעֲתָא hill; see also I. גִּבְעָה below)
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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