גֻּלָּה
gullâh · H1543 · Hebrew · 15 occurrences
Thing
- BowlEating utensils32 verses
Meanings
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bowl
A round, deep dish or basin for the storage of liquids
ExamplesEcclesiastes 12:6 Remember your Creator before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the spring is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed;
Zechariah 4:2 And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see, and behold, a lampstand all of gold with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it with seven spouts belonging to each of the lamps which are on the top of it;
Zechariah 4:3 also two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left side.”
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bowl-shaped capital
Literally: bowl of capital; hence: the bowl-shaped, distinct, typically broader section at the head of a pillar or column
Examples1 Kings 7:41 the two pillars and the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two lattices to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars;
1 Kings 7:42 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two lattices, two rows of pomegranates for each lattice to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars;
2 Chronicles 4:12 the two pillars, the bowls and the two capitals on top of the pillars, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on top of the pillars,
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spring
A place where water wells up from an underground source
ExamplesJoshua 15:19 Then she said, “Give me a blessing; since you have given me the land of the Negev, give me springs of water also.” So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
Judges 1:15 She said to him, “Give me a blessing: since you have given me the land of the Negev, give me springs of water also.” So Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
How it’s used In 6 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
10 occurrences in 5 groups
- כֹתֶרֶתcapital 5
- מַיִםwater 2
- זָהָבgold 1
- עִלִּיupper 1
- תַּחְתִּיlower 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
7 occurrences in 5 groups
- שְׁנַיִםtwo 4
- רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 3
- פָּנִיםface, presence, before 2
- עִלִּיupper 1
- תַּחְתִּיlower 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָצַץto oppress, to crush, to break 1
What is done to itIt is the object
10 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 6
- כָּסָהto cover 4
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָמִיןright side 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 3 entries
- Containers001003001001003
- The noun denotes a rounded bowl, used of the bowls atop the temple's bronze pillar capitals and of the golden bowl feeding the lampstand in Zechariah's vision.
- Buildings001003002001
- This code is inherited from the shared listing with the word's architectural-fixture sense rather than an independent feature distinct from the bowl and spring senses attested in the citations.
- Waterbodies001002008
- The same word also names a spring of water, used of the upper and lower springs Caleb's daughter requests as part of her inheritance.
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1543. gullah גֻּלָּה noun feminine basin, bowl — ׳ג Zec 4:3 + Zec 4:2 compare below;…
גֻּלָּה noun feminine basin, bowl — ׳ג Zec 4:3 + Zec 4:2 compare below; construct גֻּלַּת Ecc 12:6; plural absolute גֻּלֹּת Jos 15:19 (twice in verse) + 2t.; וֺֿת2Ch 4:12; construct גֻּלֹּת (וֺֿת) 1Ki 7:41 (׳הַגּ Th, so || 2Ch 4:12 compare Be), 2 Chronicles 4:41 2Ch 4:3t.; —
1 basin (pool, well ?) ׳ג מַיִם Jos 15:19 = Jdg 1:15; omit ׳מ Jos 15:19 (twice in verse) = Jdg 1:15 (twice in verse) (probably old
proper name, of a location, compare Di).
2 bowl,
a. of lamp, i.e. oil-receptacle Zec 4:3, also Zec 4:2, where גֻּלָּהּ ᵑ0 as if from [גֹּל]; read גֻּלָּה Brd Ges§ 91. 1, R. 2; (> Hi-St Bö§ 734 b De on Psa 27:5 Sta§ 347 c, who think גֻּלָּהּ = גֻּלָּתָהּ); — so also Ecc 12:6 הַזָּהָב גֻּלַּת
b. of bowl- or globe-shaped portion of capitals of the two pillars in temple 1Ki 7:41 (twice in verse); 1Ki 7:42 2Ch 4:12 (twice in verse); 2Ch 4:13.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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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