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# גָּבִישׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1378

**crystal** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

crystal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1378/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּבִישׁ: n.m. crystal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1378/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. crystal (cf. אֶלְגָּבִישׁ hail—on relation of meanings cf. Gk. κρύσταλλος, & Ethiopic usage of እብነ በረድ DiLex. Aeth. 759—Arabic جِبْسٌ gypsum, Assyrian gibšu, mass, abundance, COTGloss)—רָאמוֹת וְגָבִישׁ Jb 28:18 coral and crystal.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: crystal (1).

## In the verses

[Job 28:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.28.18/#tree)

רָאמ֣וֹת וְ֭גָבִישׁ לֹ֣א יִזָּכֵ֑ר וּמֶ֥שֶׁךְ חָ֝כְמָ֗ה מִפְּנִינִֽים׃

*Word for word:* corals and crystal not it.is.remembered and.\[the\] price of.wisdom \[is\].more than.corals

*JPS 1917:* No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1378.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1378/): 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).