גָּזֵל
gâzêl · H1498 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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seizing, robbery
Action by which humans take property unlawfully from a person or place, usually by force or threat of force
ExamplesLeviticus 6:2 “When a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD, and disavows the rightful claim of his neighbor regarding a deposit or a security entrusted to him, or regarding robbery, or he has extorted from his neighbor,
Psalm 62:10 Do not trust in oppression, And do not vainly rely on robbery; If wealth increases, do not set your heart on it.
Isaiah 61:8 For I, the LORD, love justice, I hate robbery in the burnt offering; And I will faithfully give them their reward, And make an everlasting covenant with them.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- גָּזַלto seize 1
- שָׂנֵאto hate 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 3
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
- ἁρπαγμός harpagmós · G725 · to rob, to carry off, to plunder
- Greek ἁρπαγμός denotes the concrete result of the act of seizing/plundering (the thing seized), while Hebrew גָּזֵל encompasses both the violent act itself and its concrete result, making ἁρπαγμός a natural Greek rendering when emphasis falls on the object taken by force.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Possess002003002019
- גָּזֵל denotes robbery or that which is taken by violence, as in Isaiah 61:8's declaration that the LORD hates robbery in the burnt offering.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1498. gazel גָּזֵל noun [masculine] robbery — absolute גָּזֵל Leviticus 5:21 Lev 5:3t. +…
גָּזֵל noun [masculine] robbery — absolute גָּזֵל Leviticus 5:21 Lev 5:3t. + Eze 18:18 compare below; construct גֵּזֶל Ecc 5:7; Eze 18:18 (but compare below); — robbery Leviticus 5:21 (P) Psa 62:11 (|| עשֶׁק) Isa 61:8; = thing plundered, taken as plunder, as plunder, accusative of congnate meaning with verb Eze 22:29 (גָּזֵל גָּזַל); figurative משפט גֵּזֶל = wresting of justice (compare Isa 10:2) Ecc 5:7. — Eze 18:18 has אָח גֵּזֶל, but ᵐ5 Co strike out אח; read then גָּזֵל. — compare LagBN 172.
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
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