גֵּו
gêv · H1460 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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back
The rear part of the human body, especially from the neck to the bottom
ExamplesProverbs 10:13 On the lips of the discerning, wisdom is found, But a rod is for the back of him who has no sense.
Proverbs 19:29 Judgments are prepared for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.
Proverbs 26:3 A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, And a rod for the back of fools.
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Literally: to throw behind (one's) back; hence: action by which someone decides not to hold somebody else's bad behavior against them, as if throwing that behavior carelessly behind one's back (to cast behind (one's) back)
ExamplesIsaiah 38:17 “Behold, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; But You have kept my soul from the pit of nothingness, For You have hurled all my sins behind Your back.
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society
A group of people living together in a more or less ordered community
ExamplesJob 30:5 “They are driven from the community; They shout against them as against a thief,
How it’s used In 4 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
6 occurrences in 5 groups
- כְּסִילfool, foolish 2
- חָסֵרlacking 1
- יmy 1
- ךָyour 1
- ךְyour 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
- שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- שֵׁבֶטtribe, rod 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- לto/for 3
- אַחַרafter, behind 2
- 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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Semantic domains 3 entries
- People001001003
- גֵּו denotes the human body or back as a physical part of a person, as in the beatings for the backs of fools in Proverbs 19:29.
- Innocent002003003015
- This code is inherited from a related usage of this lexeme in a legal/moral context (e.g. being driven from the community as if guilty); it does not independently apply to the physical-back citations here.
- Groups001001003004
- The word can also denote a community or company of people collectively, as in Job 30:5's reference to being driven from the community.
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1460. gev I. גֵּו noun [masculine] back — גֵּו absolute unused, construct Pro 10:13 Pro…
I. גֵּו noun [masculine] back — גֵּו absolute unused, construct Pro 10:13 Pro 10:2t., suffix גֵּוִי Isa 50:6, גֵּוְךָ Isa 38:17, גֵּוֵךְ Isa 51:23; — back, as beaten, lashed Pro 10:13; Pro 19:29; Pro 26:3 compare Isa 50:6; in phrase ג אַחֲרֵי ׳הִשְׁלִיךְ (as גַּו) Isa 38:17, of Yahweh's casting sins of penitent behind his back, putting them out of mind; as trodden upon Isa 51:23, figurative of extreme humiliation.
II. גֵּו noun [masculine] midst, Aramaism (compare Aramaic גֵּו גַּוָּא, middle, Late Hebrew גֵּו midst, interior; id., belly, Arabic midst) Job 30:5 יְגֹרָ֑שׁוּ מִןגֵּֿו from the midst (of men) they are driven; Rosenm and others compare CiceroOff. iii. 8: e medio pelluntur.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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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