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# גֹּב

Biblical Aramaic

**pit** — used 10 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

pit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b9_5bc_5d1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֹּב: n.m. pit, den [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b9_5bc_5d1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. pit, den of lions (𝔗 גּוּב, Syriac ܓܽܘܒ pit;? cf.BH גֹּב n.pr.loc., √ גבב);—cstr. ג׳ Dn 6:8, 25; גּוֹב v 13; emph. גֻּבָּא v 17, 18, 20, 21, 24(×2), 25.

### Jastrow 1903

גּוֹב ²: body, trunk, untrimmed log the dimples back, top out of [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b9_5bc_5d1/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** same. Dan. VI, 8; 13; 17 sq.—Targ. Ex. XXI, 33 sq. (some ed. גּוֹבָא); Targ. Ps. XLIV, 26 (ed. Vien. גּוּבָא); a. e.—Y. Ab. Zar. IV, 44ᵃ bot. נפל לג׳ fell into a wine pit, v. זְחַל.—Pl. גּוּבִּין, גּוּבַּיָּא, גּוּבֵּי, גוֹב׳. Targ. Jer. II, 13. Targ. Gen. XXXVII, 20 ed. Berl. גּוּבַּ׳ (Y. גּוֹבַ׳). (cmp. גַּב, גַּבָּא) body, trunk, untrimmed log.—Pl. גּוּבֵּי or גּוֹבֵי. B. Kam. 96ᵃ ג׳ דדיקלא logs of a date-tree. Ib. ג׳ ועבדינהו וכ׳, v. כָּשׁוֹרָא. Sabb. 109ᵇ the swallowed serpent came out of his body ג׳ ג׳ in single trunks (sections of the body). M. Kat. 24ᵃ ג׳ דדיקנא chin, v. גַּב (Rashi: the dimples of the chin). back, top. Targ. Prov. IX, 3 Ms. על ג׳ (cmp. על גַּב; ed. גִּיב, h. text גַּפֵּי). \*prep. (cmp. גַּבֵּי־ s. v. גַּב) מן גובי־ out of. Y. Keth. II, 35ᵃ ומן גוביהן עבד וכ׳ and out of these (seventeen years) he spent thirteen years suffering with tooth-ache; Y. Kil. IX, 32ᵇ ומן גובעין (corr. acc.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates); Jastrow: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (15 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the (5); the den (3); of (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 6:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.20/#tree)

בֵּאדַ֣יִן מַלְכָּ֔א בִּשְׁפַּרְפָּרָ֖א יְק֣וּם בְּנָגְהָ֑א וּבְהִ֨תְבְּהָלָ֔ה לְגֻבָּ֥א דִֽי־אַרְיָוָתָ֖א אֲזַֽל׃

*Word for word:* then the king at (the) dawn he.arose at the daylight and in haste to the den (diy).of the lions he.went

*JPS 1917:* Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.

[Daniel 6:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.6.18/#tree)

וְהֵיתָ֙יִת֙ אֶ֣בֶן חֲדָ֔ה וְשֻׂמַ֖ת עַל־פֻּ֣ם גֻּבָּ֑א וְחַתְמַ֨הּ מַלְכָּ֜א בְּעִזְקְתֵ֗הּ וּבְעִזְקָת֙ רַבְרְבָנ֔וֹהִי דִּ֛י לָא־תִשְׁנֵ֥א צְב֖וּ בְּדָנִיֵּֽאל׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.brought a.stone one and it.was.set over the.mouth of the.den and he sealed.it the king with signet-ring his and with the.signet-rings of his.nobles that not it.will.change anything with Daniel

*JPS 1917:* And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that nothing might be changed concerning Daniel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d2_5b9_5bc_5d1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b9_5bc_5d1/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).