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# גַּבְרִיאֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1403

**Garbriel** — 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

Garbriel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1403/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גַּבְרִיאֵל: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1403/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (man of Ēl) an archangel Dn 8:16; 9:21 (cf. Lu 1:19).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 8:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.8.16/#tree)

וָאֶשְׁמַ֥ע קוֹל־אָדָ֖ם בֵּ֣ין אוּלָ֑י וַיִּקְרָא֙ וַיֹּאמַ֔ר גַּבְרִיאֵ֕ל הָבֵ֥ן לְהַלָּ֖ז אֶת־הַמַּרְאֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and I.heard \[the\].voice of.a.person between Ulai and he.called and he.said O.Gabriel explain to this.\[one\] (et) the vision

*JPS 1917:* And I heard the voice of a man between the banks of Ulai, who called, and said: 'Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.'

[Daniel 9:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.9.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.9.21/#tree)

וְע֛וֹד אֲנִ֥י מְדַבֵּ֖ר בַּתְּפִלָּ֑ה וְהָאִ֣ישׁ גַּבְרִיאֵ֡ל אֲשֶׁר֩ רָאִ֨יתִי בֶחָז֤וֹן בַּתְּחִלָּה֙ מֻעָ֣ף בִּיעָ֔ף נֹגֵ֣עַ אֵלַ֔י כְּעֵ֖ת מִנְחַת־עָֽרֶב׃

*Word for word:* and still I \[was\].speaking in (the) prayer and the man Gabriel whom I.had.seen in the vision at the beginning wearied with weariness \[was\].approaching (to) me about.\[the\] time of.\[the\].offering of.\[the\].evening

*JPS 1917:* yea, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, approached close to me about the time of the evening offering.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1403.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1403/): 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).