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# גֵּוָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1465

**back** — 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

back [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1465/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֵּוָה³: n.f. back [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1465/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. back—(so also Di Hoffm SS; 𝔊 Thes De AV RV body = גְּוִיָּה, cf. BaZMG 1887, 605) Jb 20:25 וַיֵּצֵא מִגֵּוָה it comes out from the back (of arrow which has struck a fugitive, and is then extracted; Hoffm reads מִגֵּוֹה).—i. גֵּוָה sub גאה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 20:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.20.25/#tree)

שָׁלַף֮ וַיֵּצֵ֪א מִגֵּ֫וָ֥ה וּ֭בָרָק מִֽמְּרֹרָת֥וֹ יַהֲלֹ֗ךְ עָלָ֥יו אֵמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* he.will.draw.\[it\].out and it.came.out from.\[the\] back and lightning from gall-bladder his it.will.come \[are\].on him terrors

*JPS 1917:* He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall; terrors are upon him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1465.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1465/): 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).