גׇּפְרִית
gophrîyth · H1614 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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sulphur
A pale yellow substance which burns readily in air; it is found in regions of volcanic activity such as the Dead Sea area, and causes the land to be infertile; it is associated with punishment from God
ExamplesGenesis 19:24 Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah from the LORD out of heaven,
Deuteronomy 29:23 ‘All its land is brimstone and salt, burned debris, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows on it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’
Job 18:15 “Nothing of his dwells in his tent; Brimstone is scattered on his home.
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
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- זָרָהto scatter, to disperse 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- מָטַרto send rain 2
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מְנָתpart 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נַחַלstream, valley, wadi 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- θεῖον theîon · G2303 · sulfur, brimstone
- Greek θεῖον (sulphur) is the direct lexical equivalent of Hebrew גׇּפְרִית (brimstone), both denoting the same mineral substance used in divine judgment contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Minerals001002005009
- The noun denotes brimstone or sulfur, the burning mineral substance rained down on Sodom and Gomorrah and invoked in later descriptions of judgment.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1614. gophrith גָּפְרִית noun feminine brimstone (Aramaic גּוּפְרִיתָא, also כובריתא…
גָּפְרִית noun feminine brimstone (Aramaic גּוּפְרִיתָא, also כובריתא כבריתא,, , ; Arabic (certainly foreign word); derived from (כֹּפֶר), גֹּפֶר by Thes Rob-Ges, compare Di Gen 6:14; i.e. pitch, and then other combustibles, especially sulphur; Lagl.c. thinks from Bactrian vohûkereti) — גָּפְרִית Gen 19:24 Gen 19:6t. — brimstone, after הִמְטִיר Gen 19:24 (J), figurative of judgment Psa 11:6; Eze 38:22 (in all || אֵשׁ etc.), compare also Job 18:15; Isa 34:9, & Deu 29:22; ג ׳נַחַל simile for the destroying breath of ׳י Isa 30:33.
גֵּר see below I. גור.
גִּר see below גיר.
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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