Word

גָּזַּה

gâzzah · H1492 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

fleece

The wool coat of a sheep

Examples
Judges 6:37 behold, I am putting a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I will know that You will save Israel through me, as You have spoken.”
Judges 6:38 And it was so. When he got up early the next morning and wrung out the fleece, he wrung the dew from the fleece, a bowl full of water.
Judges 6:39 Then Gideon said to God, “Do not let Your anger burn against me, so that I may speak only one more time; please let me put You to the test only one more time with the fleece: let it now be dry only on the fleece, and let there be dew on all the ground.”

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

צֶמֶרwool 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

זוּרto press out 1
יָצַגto place 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

5 occurrences in 4 groups

אֵלto, toward 4
מִןfrom 2
עַלon, upon, over, against 2
בin/on/with 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 1 entry

Animals001001002: גָּזַּה denotes a fleece, the shorn wool of a sheep, as in Gideon's test with the fleece of wool in Judges 6:37-39.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

גַּזָז gazâz · H1494 · to shear, to shave, to cut off · 15×גָּזַּהgâzzah · H1492גֵּז gêz · H1488 · shearing, mowing · 4×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1492. gizzah גִּזָּה noun feminine fleece — (Arabic , Aramaic ) גִּזָּה Jdg 6:37 Jdg…

H1492. gizzah
גִּזָּה noun feminine fleece — (Arabic , Aramaic ) גִּזָּה Jdg 6:37 Jdg 6:5t.; construct גִּזַּת Jdg 6:37; — fleece, ׳ג צֶמֶר Jdg 6:37; absolute Jdg 6:37-38, (twice in verse); Jdg 6:39 (twice in verse); Jdg 6:40.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Animals7 occurrences

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