Word

גָּזִית

gâzîyth · H1496 · Hebrew · 11 occurrences

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Thing

Squared stones for buildingBuilders15 verses

Meanings

hewn stone, dressed stone, squared stone

Large stone that was cut square so that it could be laid on other stones to form a wall or building; associated with wealth and heaviness

Examples
Exodus 20:25 ‘And if you make an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if you wield your chisel on it, you will profane it.
1 Kings 5:17 Then the king issued orders, and they quarried large stones, valuable stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones.
1 Kings 6:36 And he built the inner courtyard with three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.

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

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

טוּרrow 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

7 occurrences in 4 groups

אֶבֶןstone 3
מִדָּהmeasure, size 2
בַּיִתhouse, household 1
טוּרrow 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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Semantic domains 1 entry

Constructions001003002: גָּזִית denotes hewn or dressed stone used in building construction, as in the altar of uncut stone in Exodus 20:25 and the temple's cut-stone courtyard in 1 Kings 6:36.

Word family 2 words

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

גָּזָה gâzâh · H1491 · to remove, to take · 1×גָּזִיתgâzîyth · H1496

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1496. gazith גָּזִית noun feminine a cutting, hewing — גָּזִית Exo 20:25 Exo 20:10t.,…

H1496. gazith
גָּזִית noun feminine a cutting, hewing — גָּזִית Exo 20:25 Exo 20:10t., always absolute; — hewing, ג ׳אַבְנֵי = hewn stones (building-stones) 1 Kings 5:31; 1Ch 22:2; Eze 40:42 (for tables), compare ג כְּמִדּוֺת יְקָרוֺת ׳אֲבָנִים 1Ki 7:9, 1Ki 7:11 (but Klo strike out as gloss, compare ᵐ5); also without אבני = hewn stones Exo 20:25 (altar) Amo 5:11 (ג ׳בָּֽתֵּי) Isa 9:9 (opposed to לְבֵנִים); ג ׳טוּרֵי 1Ki 6:36, ג ׳טוּרִים 1Ki 7:12; also Lam 3:9 בְּג דַּרְכִּי ׳גָּדַר.
גִּזָּה see below גזז. below

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Constructions11 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