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# גְּבִירָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1377

**mistress** — used 6 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

mistress [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1377/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גְּבִירָה: n.f. lady, queen queen-mother [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1377/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. lady, queen, 1 K 11:19; queen-mother, 1 K 15:13 = 2 Ch 15:16; וַיְסִרֶהָ מִגּ׳ he removed her from (the position of) queenmother; cf. 2 K 10:13 Je 13:18; 29:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: queen-mother (4); queen (1); the queen-mother (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 13:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.18/#tree)

אֱמֹ֥ר לַמֶּ֛לֶךְ וְלַגְּבִירָ֖ה הַשְׁפִּ֣ילוּ שֵׁ֑בוּ כִּ֤י יָרַד֙ מַרְאֲשׁ֣וֹתֵיכֶ֔ם עֲטֶ֖רֶת תִּֽפְאַרְתְּכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* say to the king and to the queen-mother make.low sit (dm) it.has.come.down of.your.head the.place the.crown your.splendor your

*JPS 1917:* Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother: 'Sit ye down low; for your headtires are come down, even your beautiful crown.'

[1 Kings 11:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.19/#tree)

וַיִּמְצָא֙ הֲדַ֥ד חֵ֛ן בְּעֵינֵ֥י פַרְעֹ֖ה מְאֹ֑ד וַיִּתֶּן־ל֤וֹ אִשָּׁה֙ אֶת־אֲח֣וֹת אִשְׁתּ֔וֹ אֲח֖וֹת תַּחְפְּנֵ֥יס הַגְּבִירָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.found Hadad favor in the.eyes of.Pharaoh exceedingly and he.gave to him a.wife (et) the.sister his.own.wife his the.sister of.Tahpenes the queen

*JPS 1917:* And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1377/): 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).