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# גֶּבֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1397

**man** — used 66 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

man [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1397/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֶּ֫בֶר: n.m. man [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1397/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. man (NH id., MI16 גברן (pl.), Aramaic גְּבַר, ܓܒܰܪ; Assyrian gabru, rival is Akkadian loanword according to SchrJLZ 1874, 200 DlS 120, Sm. Chald. Gen. 286)—Dt 22:5 + 39 times; גָּ֑בֶר Jb 3:3 + 13 times; cstr. גְּבֶּר ψ 18:26 (= 2 S 22:26 גִּבּוֹר but 𝔊 𝔖 read גֶּבֶר); pl. גְּבָרים Je 41:16 + 10 times;—man as strong, disting. from women, children, and non-combatants whom he is to defend, chiefly poetic Ex 10:11 Nu 24:3, 15 (E) Ex 12:37 Jos 7:14, 17, 18 (J) Dt 22:5(×2) Ju 5:30 2 S 23:1 1 Ch 23:3; 24:4; 26:12 Jb 3:3 + 14 times Jb; ψ 18:26 + 8 times ψ; Pr 6:34 + 7 times Pr; Is 22:17 Je 17:5 + 8 times Je; La 3:1, 27, 35, 39 Dn 8:15 Mi 2:2 Hb 2:5 Zc 13:7; also 1 S 10:21 𝔊 We Dr; = each (of locusts) Jo 2:8, cf. אישׁ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 28 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: a man (28); man (10); men (9).

## In the verses

[Psalms 18:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.26/#tree)

עִם־חָסִ֥יד תִּתְחַסָּ֑ד עִם־גְּבַ֥ר תָּ֝מִ֗ים תִּתַּמָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* with a.faithful.\[person\] you.show.yourself.faithful with a.man blameless you.show.yourself.blameless

*JPS 1917:* With the merciful Thou dost show Thyself merciful, with the upright man Thou dost show Thyself upright;

[Psalms 128:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.128.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.128.4/#tree)

הִנֵּ֣ה כִי־כֵ֭ן יְבֹ֥רַךְ גָּ֗בֶר יְרֵ֣א יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* here! (dm) thus he.will.be.blessed a.man fearing (of).Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Behold, surely thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1397.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1397/): 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).