גּוּף
gûwph · H1479 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to close, to shut
Causative action by which someone blocks the entrance, passage, or access (in)to a building, construction, or area with a door
ExamplesNehemiah 7:3 Then I said to them, “The gates of Jerusalem are not to be opened until the sun is hot, and while they are standing guard, the gatekeepers are to keep the doors shut and bolted. Also appoint guards from the inhabitants of Jerusalem, each at his post, and each in front of his own house.”
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
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: they 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דֶּלֶתdoor 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַדto, as far as, until+ עָמַדto stand 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 2 words
- סָכַר çâkar · H5534 · to be closed, to be shut, to hire
- Both words denote closing or blocking actions, “to shut” in one case and “to stop” in the other; both are attested only rarely.
- סָתַם çâtham · H5640 · to stop up, to shut out, to close
- Both lexemes genuinely denote closing or shutting actions. 'To shut' and 'to be closed up, shut out or up' are plausible near-synonyms describing similar acts of physical or metaphorical closing.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Close002001001012
- גּוּף denotes shutting or closing, as in the gatekeepers keeping the doors of Jerusalem shut and bolted in Nehemiah 7:3.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1479. guph [גּוּף] verb shut, close (Late Hebrew id., see NHWBi. 314, 352) — Hiph`il…
[גּוּף] verb shut, close (Late Hebrew id., see NHWBi. 314, 352) —
Hiph`il Imperfect jussive יָגִ֫יפוּ Neh 7:3 close (door, דלתות).
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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