גַּו
gav · H1459 · Aramaic · 13 occurrences
Meanings
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midst, interior, inside
A reference to a location inside of a three-dimensional space
ExamplesEzra 4:15 so that a search may be conducted in the record books of your fathers. And you will discover in the record books and learn that that city is a rebellious city and detrimental to kings and provinces, and that they have revolted within it in past days; for this reason that city was laid waste.
Daniel 3:6 “But whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be thrown into the middle of a furnace of blazing fire.”
Daniel 3:11 “But whoever does not fall down and worship shall be thrown into the middle of a furnace of blazing fire.
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inside
A reference to a location in a written document
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
13 occurrences in 5 groups
- אַתּוּןfurnace 5
- נוּרfiery 3
- הּher 3
- נִדְנֶהbody 1
- אֲרַעearth 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אִילָןtree 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
13 occurrences in 3 groups
- לto/for 12
- בin/on/with 11
- מִןfrom 2
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 2 words
- תָּוֶךְ tâvek · H8432 · middle, between, midst
- תָּוֶךְ is the most common Hebrew term for 'midst, middle, among' and shares the spatial sense of interior location that גַּו expresses, making it a natural synonym in contexts referring to being in the middle or interior of something.
- קֶרֶב qereb · H7130 · inner parts, entrails, stomach
- קֶרֶב denotes the interior, midst, or inward part, overlapping with גַּו in expressing location within or among something, particularly in spatial and metaphorical contexts.
In the other Testament 2 words
- μέσος mésos · G3319 · among, with, in the middle
- μέσος is the standard Greek translation equivalent for the spatial sense 'midst, middle, among' that Hebrew גַּו conveys, particularly in contexts referring to the interior or center of something.
- ἐν en · G1722 · inside, within, in
- The preposition ἐν frequently renders the locational sense of גַּו when indicating location 'within' or 'in the midst of' something, particularly in prepositional phrases.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Spatial Referents003002005
- Daniel 3:6 has the herald proclaim, “whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately be thrown into the middle of a furnace of blazing fire.”
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1459. gav [גַּו] noun masculine midst (Egyptian Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene גו; גָּיו…
[גַּו] noun masculine midst (Egyptian Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene גו; גָּיו ᵑ7; especially construct מִגּוֺ לְגוֺ, בְּגוֺ,; so Syriac ; compare Biblical Hebrew נֵּו); — construct גּוֺא (so Nabataen CookeNo. 94) Dan 3:26 +, Dan 7:15 editions, Gi גּוֺ (Baer גּוֺא, see on Dan 3:6); suffix 3masculine singular גַּוֵּהּ Ezr 5:7, Ezr 5:3feminine singular גַּוַּהּ Ezr 4:15; Ezr 6:2; — midst, always with prepositions:
a. בְּגוֺא (= Hebrew בְּתוֺךְ), Dan 3:25 גוּרָא בְּגוֺא, Dan 4:7; Dan 7:15; Ezr 4:15; Ezr 5:7 בְּגַוֵהּ כְּתִיב וְכִדְנָה, Ezr 6:2.
b. לְגוֺא Dan 3:6, Dan 3:11, Dan 3:15, Dan 3:21, Dan 3:23, Dan 3:24.
c. מִןגּֿוֺא Dan 3:26.
גֵּרָה see גאה.
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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