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# גָּהַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1457

**bend** — used 3 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

bend [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1457/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּהַר: vb. bend, crouch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1457/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. bend, crouch (so Vrss)— Impf. וַיִּגְהַר 1 K 18:42 sq. אַרְצָה Elijah, with face between knees; 2 K 4:34, 35 Elisha, over dead boy, sq. עליו (‖ וישׁכב v 34, cf. שׁכב).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he bent down (3).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 18:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.18.42/#tree)

וַיַּעֲלֶ֥ה אַחְאָ֖ב לֶאֱכֹ֣ל וְלִשְׁתּ֑וֹת וְאֵ֨לִיָּ֜הוּ עָלָ֨ה אֶל־רֹ֤אשׁ הַכַּרְמֶל֙ וַיִּגְהַ֣ר אַ֔רְצָה וַיָּ֥שֶׂם פָּנָ֖יו בֵּ֥ין בִּרְכָּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.up Ahab to eat and to drink and Elijah he.went.up to the.top of.(the) Carmel and he.bent.down ground to.\[the\] and he.put face his between knees his

*JPS 1917:* So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees.

[2 Kings 4:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.35/#tree)

וַיָּ֜שָׁב וַיֵּ֣לֶךְ בַּבַּ֗יִת אַחַ֥ת הֵ֙נָּה֙ וְאַחַ֣ת הֵ֔נָּה וַיַּ֖עַל וַיִּגְהַ֣ר עָלָ֑יו וַיְזוֹרֵ֤ר הַנַּ֙עַר֙ עַד־שֶׁ֣בַע פְּעָמִ֔ים וַיִּפְקַ֥ח הַנַּ֖עַר אֶת־עֵינָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.back and he.walked in the house one.\[time\] hither and one.\[time\] hither and he.went.up and he.bent.down over him and he.sneezed the lad until seven times and he.opened the lad (et) eyes his

*JPS 1917:* Then he returned, and walked in the house once to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him; and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1457.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1457/): 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).