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גִּיחַ

gîyach · H1518 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to flow with force, to rush, to gush

    Process by which a substance moves with force

    Examples

    Job 38:8 “Or who enclosed the sea with doors When it went out from the womb, bursting forth;

    Job 40:23 “If a river rages, he is not alarmed; He is confident, though the Jordan rushes to his mouth.

  2. to rush or thrust

    Action by which humans or animals move with force

    Examples

    Judges 20:33 Then all the men of Israel rose from their place and lined up at Baal-tamar; and the men of Israel in ambush charged from their place, from Maareh-geba.

    Ezekiel 32:2 “Son of man, take up a song of mourning over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, ‘You compared yourself to a young lion of the nations, Yet you are like the monster in the seas; And you burst forth in your rivers And muddied the waters with your feet And fouled their rivers.’”

  3. to shout or scream

    Action by which humans speak with force

    Examples

    Micah 4:10 “Writhe and scream, Daughter of Zion, Like a woman in childbirth; For now you will go out of the city, Live in the field, And go to Babylon. There you will be rescued, There the LORD will redeem you From the hand of your enemies.

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

Who or what does itSubject

6 occurrences in 5 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 4 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 3 entries
Detach002003001006
In its verbal sense the root pictures a breaking or bursting forth, used of the sea bursting forth from the womb of the deep at creation.
Move002002001012
The same imagery of bursting or breaking forth also describes forceful outward motion, as when waters or a newborn are said to break out.
Shout002004001009005
The root additionally describes a warrior bursting forth with a battle shout, used of soldiers rushing forth against an enemy.
Word family 2 words

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

גִּיחַgîyach · H1518גִּיחַ gîyach · H1519 · strive · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1518. giach [גּוּחַ גִּיחַ,] verb burst forth (compare NöZMG 1883, 538; Late Hebrew id.,…
H1518. giach
[גּוּחַ גִּיחַ,] verb burst forth (compare NöZMG 1883, 538; Late Hebrew id., Aramaic id., and ; Ethiopic break forth, of light, etc.) —
Qal Imperfect יָגִיחַ Job 40:23, masculine singular וַתָּ֫גַח Eze 32:2; Imperative feminine singular גֹּ֫חִי Mic 4:10; Infinitive suffix (בְּ)גִיחו Job 38:8; Participle suffix גֹּחִ֫י Psa 22:10 (but compare below); —
1 intransitive burst forth, of dashing river (a very Jordan) Job 40:23; of sea figurative as babe from womb Job 38:8, compare
2 transitive
a. draw forth from womb (subject ׳י) Psa 22:10 (where read גָּחִ֫י participle from גּוּחַ, or regard גֹּחִי as metaplastic, as if from ג֗֗֗חח? see De & Checritical note) compare Psa 71:6; also
b. thrust forth, bring forth, rather 'break forth (with that which is to be born),' figurative of travail, applied to Jerusalem in distress Mic 4:10 (compare Sta§ 599 b Köi. 505); burst forth with rivers (figurative of Pharaoh under image of תַּנִּים) Eze 32:2, but for בנהרותיך (rivers) read probably בִּנְחִרוֺתֶיךָ Job 41:12 (nostrils), i.e. snort with thy nostrils, so Ew Co; on figurative then compare Job 41:11-13.

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

Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Move4 occurrencesDetach1 occurrenceShout1 occurrence

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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