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# גֶּבֶא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1360

**cistern** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cistern [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1360/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֶּ֫בֶא: n.m. cistern, pool [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1360/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 47:11 cistern, pool (cf. Arabic جَابِيَةٌ watering-trough)— cistern מֵיִם מִגֶּ֑בֶא Is 30:14. pool, marsh גְּבָאָיו Ez 47:13 (‖ בִּצֹּאתָ‌֯ו).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a cistern (1); marshes (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 47:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.11/#tree)

בִּצֹּאתָ֧יו וּגְבָאָ֛יו וְלֹ֥א יֵרָפְא֖וּ לְמֶ֥לַח נִתָּֽנוּ׃

*Word for word:* swamps its and marshes its and not they.will.be.healed to salt they.will.be.given

*JPS 1917:* But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given for salt.

[Isaiah 30:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.14/#tree)

וּ֠שְׁבָרָהּ כְּשֵׁ֨בֶר נֵ֧בֶל יוֹצְרִ֛ים כָּת֖וּת לֹ֣א יַחְמֹ֑ל וְלֹֽא־יִמָּצֵ֤א בִמְכִתָּתוֹ֙ חֶ֔רֶשׂ לַחְתּ֥וֹת אֵשׁ֙ מִיָּק֔וּד וְלַחְשֹׂ֥ף מַ֖יִם מִגֶּֽבֶא׃פ

*Word for word:* and someone will.break.it like.\[the\] breaking of.a.jar of.potters crushed \[which\].not anyone.will.spare and not it.will.be.found among fragment\[s\] its a.potsherd to snatch.up fire from a.fireplace and to draw water from a.cistern

*JPS 1917:* And He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the cistern.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1360.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1360/): 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).