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# גְּבֶרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1404

**mistress** — used 9 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/1490/1404/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גְּבֶ֫רֶת: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1404/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. lady, queen, Is 47:5, 7. mistress of servants, sf. גְּבִרְתִּי Gn 16:8; גְּבִרְתֵּךְ Gn 16:9; גְּבִרְתָּהּ Gn 16:4 2 K 5:3 ψ 123:2 Pr 30:23; (pl. גברת women MI16); גְּבִרְתָּהּ Is 24:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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: mistress (6); a queen (1); her mistress (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 30:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.23/#tree)

תַּ֣חַת שְׂ֭נוּאָה כִּ֣י תִבָּעֵ֑ל וְ֝שִׁפְחָ֗ה כִּֽי־תִירַ֥שׁ גְּבִרְתָּֽהּ׃פ

*Word for word:* under a.\[woman.who.is\].hated (dm) she.will.be.married and a.female.servant (dm) she.will.dispossess mistress her

*JPS 1917:* For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

[Genesis 16:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.16.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.16.9/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהּ֙ מַלְאַ֣ךְ יְהוָ֔ה שׁ֖וּבִי אֶל־גְּבִרְתֵּ֑ךְ וְהִתְעַנִּ֖י תַּ֥חַת יָדֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to her the.angel of.Yahweh return to mistress your and humble.yourself under hands her

*JPS 1917:* And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1404.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1404/): 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).