גֵּוָה
gêvâh · H1465 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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back
The rear part of the human body, especially from the neck to the bottom
ExamplesJob 20:25 “It is drawn and comes out of his back, Even the flashing point from his gallbladder; Terrors come upon him,
How it’s used In 1 role
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1 occurrences in 1 groups
- 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 1 word
- בָּשָׂר bâsâr · H1320 · flesh, meat, body
- בָּשָׂר (flesh) is a Hebrew near-synonym that can denote the physical body, though it more commonly emphasizes the fleshly/material aspect. Both terms can refer to the corporeal self, but בָּשָׂר carries additional connotations of mortality and physical materiality.
In the other Testament 1 word
- σῶμα sōma · G4983 · body, self, physical being
- σῶμα is the standard Greek term for 'body' and serves as the direct translation equivalent for Hebrew גֵּוָה when referring to the physical body. Both terms denote the corporeal/physical aspect of a person or creature.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Great002001002012
- This code is inherited from a related pride/lifting-up sense of this lexeme attested elsewhere (גֵּוָה (gêvâh, H1466)); it does not independently apply to the body-part sense in the citation here.
- People001001003
- גֵּוָה (body) denotes a physical part of the body, as in Job 20:25's description of a weapon being drawn out from the back.
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1465. gevah II. גֵּוָה noun feminine back — (so also Di Hoffm SS; ᵐ5 Thes De AV RV body…
II. גֵּוָה noun feminine back — (so also Di Hoffm SS; ᵐ5 Thes De AV RV body = גְּוִיָּה, compare BaZMG 1887, 605) Job 20:25 מִגֵּוָה וַיֵּצֵיא it comes out from the back (of arrow which has struck a fugitive, and is then extracted; Hoffm reads מִגֵּוֺה). — I. גֵּוָה below גאה.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 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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