גְּוִיָּה
gᵉvîyâh · H1472 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences
Meanings
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body, corpse
The physical structure, including the bones, flesh, and organs, of a person or animal, either alive or dead
ExamplesGenesis 47:18 But when that year ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord the fact that our money is all spent, and the livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left for my lord except our bodies and our lands.
Judges 14:8 When he returned later to take her, he turned aside to look at the carcass of the lion; and behold, a swarm of bees and honey were in the body of the lion.
Judges 14:9 So he took out the honey on his hands and went on, eating as he went. When he came to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it; but he did not tell them that he had taken the honey out of the body of the lion.
How it’s used In 5 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
11 occurrences in 7 groups
- אֲרִיlion 2
- הוּhis 2
- נוּour 2
- הֶםtheir 2
- בֵּןson 1
- הֵןin 1
What is done to itIt is the object
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- כָּסָהto cover 2
- לָקַחto take, to receive 2
- תָּקַעto blow, to thrust 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- תַּרְשִׁישׁberyl 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֵדָהcongregation, community 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
6 occurrences in 5 groups
- בin/on/with 3
- בִּלְתִּיnot 2
- מִןfrom 2
- עַלon, upon, over, against 1
- לto/for 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- σῶμα sōma · G4983 · body, self, physical being
- גְּוִיָּה (gᵉvîyâh, H1472) specifically denotes a dead body or corpse, whereas σῶμα (sōma, G4983) refers broadly to any body (living or dead), with the corpse sense being one semantic subset of its wider application.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- People001001003
- גְּוִיָּה denotes a body, whether living or dead, as in the bodies offered in exchange for grain in Genesis 47:18 and the carcass of the lion in Judges 14:8-9.
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1472. gviyah גְּוִיָּה noun feminine body, corpse — absolute ׳ג Nah 3:3; construct…
גְּוִיָּה noun feminine body, corpse — absolute ׳ג Nah 3:3; construct גְּוִיַּת Jdg 14:8 Jdg 14:2t.; suffix גְּוִיָּתוֺ 1Sa 31:10; Dan 10:6, גְּוִיָּתֵנוּ Gen 47:18, גְּוִיָּתָם Nah 3:3; plural absolute גְּוִיּוֺת Psa 110:6; suffix גְּוִיֹּתֵנוּ Neh 9:37, גְּוִיֹּתֵיהֶם Eze 1:23, גְּוִיֹּתֵיהֶ֑נָֿה Eze 1:11; —
1 living human body Gen 47:18 (singular, of many persons), compare plural Neh 9:37; of man in Daniel's vision Dan 10:6 (body apart from extremities); also of the living creatures in Ezekiel's vision Eze 1:11, Eze 1:28.
2 dead body, corpse, carcass:
a. of man 1Sa 31:10 (so originally in || 1Ch 10:10 see WeSm compare Dr) 1Ch 10:12; 1Ch 10:12 (singular of several persons), Psa 110:6; collective Nah 3:3 (twice in verse);
b. of lion Jdg 14:8-9,.
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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