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# גֶּבַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1387

**Gaba** — used 19 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

Gaba [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1387/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֶּ֫בַע: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1387/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc.—ג׳ abs. Jos 21:17 +; cstr. Ju 20:10 +; גָּ֑בַע Jos 18:24 +;—Levitical city, in Benjamin Jos 21:17 = 1 Ch 6:45 Jos 18:24 cf. 1 Ch 8:6, 1 K 15:22 Ne 11:31; also 1 S 13:16 & Ju 20:10, 33 MT, in all three read (גִּבְעַת) גִּבְעָה, cf. context;—northernmost city in kingdom of Judah 2 K 23:8 from Geba to Beersheba, cf. Zc 14:10; situated S. of pass of Michmash Is 10:29 1 S 14:5 cf. 1 S 13:3; mentioned also 2 Ch 16:6 Ezr 2:26 Ne 7:30; 12:29; in 1 S 13:18 𝔊 We Dr read הַגֶּבַע for MT גְּבוּל q.v.; (2 S 5:25 read גבעון with 𝔊 and 1 Ch 14:16).—Mod. Jebaʿ RobBR i. 440 f. BdPal 120.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 18 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: Geba (16); of Geba (3).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.26/#tree)

בְּנֵ֤י הָרָמָה֙ וָגָ֔בַע שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְאֶחָֽד׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.(the) Ramah and Geba six hundred(s) twenty and one

*JPS 1917:* The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and one.

[Nehemiah 7:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.30/#tree)

אַנְשֵׁ֤י הָֽרָמָה֙ וָגָ֔בַע שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת עֶשְׂרִ֥ים וְאֶחָֽד׃ס

*Word for word:* the.men of.(the) Ramah and Geba six hundred(s) twenty and one

*JPS 1917:* The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and one.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1387.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1387/): 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).