גַּף
gaph · H1610 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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body
The physical structure, including the bones, flesh, and organs, of a human being
ExamplesExodus 21:3 “If he comes alone, he shall leave alone; if he is the husband of a wife, then his wife shall leave with him.
Exodus 21:4 “If his master gives him a wife, and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall leave alone.
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top
The highest point of a place
ExamplesProverbs 9:3 She has sent out her attendants, she calls out From the tops of the heights of the city:
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- הוּhis 3
- מָרוֹםheight, on high 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 6
- עַלon, upon, over, against 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
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- גַּף here denotes a person's own body or self, used reflexively in the servant case law, as at Exodus 21:3 — "If he comes alone, he shall leave alone" — and Exodus 21:4 — "the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall leave alone," both describing the servant's own person entering or leaving service unaccompanied.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1610. gaph [גַּף] noun masculine body, self, height, elevation (compare Late Hebrew…
[גַּף] noun masculine body, self, height, elevation (compare Late Hebrew גּוּף) — singular suffix גַּמּוֺ Exo 21:3 (twice in verse); Exo 21:4; plural construct גַּמֵּי Pro 9:3; —
1 body, self, only in phrase בְּגַמּוֺ (יֵצֵא) יָבאֹ) he shall come in (go out) by himself (with his body) Exo 21:3 (twice in verse); Exo 21:4; in law of slave (compare Di).
2 height, elevation קָ֑רֶת מְרֹמֵי עַלגַּֿמֵּי Pro 9:3.
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
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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