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# גָּוַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1478

**expire** — used 24 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

expire [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1478/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּוַע: vb. expire, perish, die [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1478/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. expire, perish, die (cf. Arabic جَاعَ be empty, hungry)— Pf. גָּוַע Nu 20:29 Jos 22:20, גָּוָ֑עוּ La 1:19, גָּוַעְנוּ Nu 17:27; 20:3; Impf. יִגְוַע Jb 34:15, יִגְוָ֑ע Gn 6:17, יִגְוְעוּ Jb 36:12, יִגְוָ֑עוּ Zc 13:8, יִגְוָע֑וּן ψ 104:29 etc.; Inf. cstr. גְּוַע Nu 20:3, גְּוֹעַ Nu 17:28; Pt. גֹּוֵעַ ψ 88:16;—expire and die, only P & poet.; נ׳ וימת Gn 25:8, 17; 35:29 (all P); ‖ מות Jb 3:11; 14:10 cf. Nu 17:28 (P); ‖ אבד Nu 17:27 we expire, we perish (P); ‖ עָנִי ψ 88:16 (progressive parall.) distressed and about to die; ‖ יאסף אל אבותיו Gn 49:33; ‖ על־עפר ישׁוב Jb 34:15 cf. ψ 104:29; ‖ יִכָּֽרְתוּ Zc 13:8; abs. both prose and (especially) poetry Nu 20:3(×2), 29 Jos 22:20 Gn 6:17; 7:21 (all P) Jb 10:18; 13:19; 27:5; 36:12 La 1:19; Jb 29:18 עִם־קִנִּי אגוע with my nest shall I die, i.e. in full possession of what is mine, cf. Di.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 23 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 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: he expired (5); I will expire (3); I expired (1).

## In the verses

[Job 34:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.34.15/#tree)

יִגְוַ֣ע כָּל־בָּשָׂ֣ר יָ֑חַד וְ֝אָדָ֗ם עַל־עָפָ֥ר יָשֽׁוּב׃

*Word for word:* it.will.expire all flesh together and humankind to dust it.will.return

*JPS 1917:* All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return unto dust.

[Job 13:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.13.19/#tree)

מִי־ה֭וּא יָרִ֣יב עִמָּדִ֑י כִּֽי־עַתָּ֖ה אַחֲרִ֣ישׁ וְאֶגְוָֽע׃

*Word for word:* who? that will.he.conduct.a.case with me (dm) now I.will.keep.silent and I.will.expire

*JPS 1917:* Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and die.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1478.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1478/): 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).