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# גֵּב

Biblical Hebrew

**beam** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

beam [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b5_5bc_5d1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֵּב⁴: beam, rafter [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b5_5bc_5d1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] beam, rafter? (Thes sub גוב, but meaning & √ dub.), גֵּבִים 1 K 6:9; but LagArmen. Stud. § 499, M i.212; BN 155 reads גֻּבְּדִים (Pers. گنبد, Armen. γμβεθ) vaulted roofs.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[1 Kings 6:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.9/#tree)

וַיִּ֥בֶן אֶת־הַבַּ֖יִת וַיְכַלֵּ֑הוּ וַיִּסְפֹּ֤ן אֶת־הַבַּ֙יִת֙ גֵּבִ֔ים וּשְׂדֵרֹ֖ת בָּאֲרָזִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.built (et) the house and he finished.it and he.paneled (et) the house beams and planks with (the) cedar(s)

*JPS 1917:* So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered in the house with planks of cedar over beams.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d2_5b5_5bc_5d1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b5_5bc_5d1/): 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).