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# גֶּבֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1398

**Geber** — 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

Geber [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1398/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֶּ֫בֶר²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1398/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. an official of Solomon 1 K 4:19 (cf. בֶּן־גֶּבֶר v 13, p. 122 supr.)

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 (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Geber (2).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 4:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.19/#tree)

גֶּ֥בֶר בֶּן־אֻרִ֖י בְּאֶ֣רֶץ גִּלְעָ֑ד אֶ֜רֶץ סִיח֣וֹן ׀ מֶ֣לֶךְ הָאֱמֹרִ֗י וְעֹג֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ הַבָּשָׁ֔ן וּנְצִ֥יב אֶחָ֖ד אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* Geber the.son of.Uri in the.land of.Gilead the.land of.Sihon the.king of the.Amorite\[s\] and Og the.king of.(the) Bashan and an.overseer one who \[was\].in the land

*JPS 1917:* Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and one officer that was over all the officers in the land.

[1 Kings 4:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.4.13/#tree)

בֶּן־גֶּ֖בֶר בְּרָמֹ֣ת גִּלְעָ֑ד רָמֹ֣ת גִּלְעָ֑ד ל֡וֹ חַוֺּת֩ יָאִ֨יר בֶּן־מְנַשֶּׁ֜ה אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּגִּלְעָ֗ד ל֚וֹ חֶ֤בֶל אַרְגֹּב֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּבָּשָׁ֔ן שִׁשִּׁים֙ עָרִ֣ים גְּדֹל֔וֹת חוֹמָ֖ה וּבְרִ֥יחַ נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃ס

*Word for word:* Ben- Geber in Ramoth Gilead \[belonged\].to him the.villages of.Jair the.son of.Manasseh which \[are\].in (the) Gilead \[belonged\].to him the.region of.Argob which \[is\].in (the) Bashan sixty cities large a.wall and bar\[s\] of.bronze

*JPS 1917:* the son of Geber, in Ramoth-gilead; to him pertained the villages of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; even to him pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1398.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1398/): 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).