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# גֹּוב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1359

**Gob** — 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

Gob [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1359/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֹּב²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1359/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** 2 S 21:18, גּוֹב v 19 n.pr.loc. (cf. Aramaic גֻּבָּא den, and ܓܘܽܒܳܐ, Arabic جُبٌّ, Ethiopic ግብ Assyrian gubbu, well, cistern, v. גבב)—field of battle with Philistines 2 S 21:18 = גֶּזֶר in ‖ 1 Ch 20:4 (so here Th Ew; cf. Jos 10:33), but = גַּת 𝔊 𝔖 2 S 21:18 (𝔊L Γαζεθ); 2 S 21:9 (om. ‖ 1 Ch 20:5), 𝔊 Ρομ, Ροβ; Klo Gath; in v 16 We Dr (q.v.) read בְּגֹב for בְּנֹב; site of Gob (si vera l.) unknown.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (17 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 21:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.18/#tree)

וַֽיְהִי֙ אַֽחֲרֵי־כֵ֔ן וַתְּהִי־ע֧וֹד הַמִּלְחָמָ֛ה בְּג֖וֹב עִם־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים אָ֣ז הִכָּ֗ה סִבְּכַי֙ הַחֻ֣שָׁתִ֔י אֶת־סַ֕ף אֲשֶׁ֖ר בִּילִדֵ֥י הָרָפָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.was after thus and it.was again (the) battle at Gob with \[the\].Philistines then he.struck.down Sibbecai the Hushathite (et) Saph who \[was\].among those.born of the.Raphah

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.

[2 Samuel 21:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.21.19/#tree)

וַתְּהִי־ע֧וֹד הַמִּלְחָמָ֛ה בְּג֖וֹב עִם־פְּלִשְׁתִּ֑ים וַיַּ֡ךְ אֶלְחָנָן֩ בֶּן־יַעְרֵ֨י אֹרְגִ֜יםיַעְרֵ֨י אֹרְגִ֜ים בֵּ֣ית הַלַּחְמִ֗י בֵּ֣ית הַלַּחְמִ֗י אֵ֚ת גָּלְיָ֣ת הַגִּתִּ֔י וְעֵ֣ץ חֲנִית֔וֹ כִּמְנ֖וֹר אֹרְגִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.was again (the) battle at Gob with \[the\].Philistines and he.struck.down Elhanan the.son of Jaare-Oregim the Bethlehemite (et) Goliath the Gittite and the.wood his.spear his \[was\].like a.beam of.weavers

*JPS 1917:* And there was again war with the Philistines at Gob; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim the Beth-lehemite slew Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1359.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1359/): 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).