גַּו
gav · H1458 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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Literally: to throw behind (one's) back; hence: state in which someone attributes very little value to a person, deity, or institution, as if it were something that is carelessly thrown behind one's back (to cast behind (one's) back)
Examples1 Kings 14:9 you also have done more evil than all who were before you, and you have gone and made for yourself other gods and cast metal images to provoke Me to anger, and have thrown Me behind your back—
Nehemiah 9:26 “But they became rebellious and revolted against You, And threw Your Law behind their backs And killed Your prophets who had admonished them In order to bring them back to You, And they committed great blasphemies.
Ezekiel 23:35 “Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and discarded Me behind your back, suffer on your own part the punishment for your outrageous sin and your obscene practices.’”
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- ךָyour 1
- ךְyour 1
- הֶםtheir 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- אַחַרafter, behind 6
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
- Unwilling002001002031
- גַּו (back) is used idiomatically for casting something behind one's back in willful rejection, as in casting God's law behind one's back in 1 Kings 14:9 and Nehemiah 9:26.
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1458. gav [גַּו] noun [masculine] back — only suffix גַּוֶּ֑ךָ 1Ki 14:9, גַּוֵּ֑ךְ Eze…
[גַּו] noun [masculine] back — only suffix גַּוֶּ֑ךָ 1Ki 14:9, גַּוֵּ֑ךְ Eze 23:35, גַּוָּם Neh 9:26; — always ג אַחֲרֵי ׳הִשְׁלִיךְ cast behind the back, i.e. put out of mind, ignore, reject ׳י 1Ki 14:9; Eze 23:35, and his law Neh 9:26.
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
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