גּוֹב
gôwb · H1462 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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locust
A winged, hopping insect of the Acrididae family that moves in swarms, is a clean animal that may be eaten, and is associated with large quantities and destruction
ExamplesAmos 7:1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me, and behold, He was forming a swarm of locusts when the spring crop began to sprout. And behold, the spring crop was after the king’s mowing.
Nahum 3:17 Your courtiers are like the migratory locust. Your officials are like a swarm of locusts Settling in the stone shelters on a cold day. The sun rises and they flee, And the place where they are is not known.
How it’s used In 6 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גּוֹבlocust 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חָנָהto camp, to encamp 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָצַרto form, to fashion 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- טִפְסַרmarshal 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גּוֹבlocust 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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Near synonyms 4 words
- גֵּב gêb · H1357 · pool, puddle, locust
- "Locust" and "grasshopper" describe closely related swarming insects, often used interchangeably or for overlapping species.
- גָּזָם gâzâm · H1501 · locust
- Both lexemes denote distinct species/types of swarming insects that may overlap functionally (agricultural pests, locust-like creatures), making them plausible near synonyms in context.
- חָגָב châgâb · H2284 · locust
- Both terms denote closely related insect types — grasshopper and locust — overlapping semantic ranges as small swarming insects that are often used interchangeably.
- אַרְבֶּה ʼarbeh · H697 · locust
- Both words denote types of grasshopper or locust, swarming insect pests, and could substitute for one another in sense.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Swarming Creatures001001002006
- גּוֹב denotes a locust or grasshopper, a swarming insect, as in Amos 7:1's vision of a swarm of locusts and Nahum 3:17's simile comparing officials to migratory locusts.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1462. gob גּוֺב noun [masculine] locusts, Nah 3:17; compare גֹּבַי. גּוֺבָ֑י גֹּבַי,…
גּוֺב noun [masculine] locusts, Nah 3:17; compare גֹּבַי.
גּוֺבָ֑י גֹּבַי, noun masculineAmo 7:1, compare see 2
collective locusts (swarm, multitude; Aramaic גּוּבָא, plural גוּבָאֵי; on formative see Ol§ 216 d), גֹּבַי symbol of Yahweh's judgment on Israel Amo 7:1; in simile of disappearance of Assyrian leaders at destruction of Nineveh גּוֺבָ֑י גּוֺב Nah 3:17 (locust-) swarm of locusts (|| אַרְבֶּה); but strike out גּוֺב as dittograph We and others
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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