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# גּוּפָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1480

**body** — used 2 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

body [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1480/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גּוּפָה: n.f. body, corpse [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1480/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. body, corpse (late; NH גּוּף, Aramaic גּוּפָא; Arabic جِيفَةٌ )—cstr. sg. גּוּפַת 1 Ch 10:12; cstr. pl. גּוּפֹת 1 Ch 10:12, cf. Be (‖ 1 S 31:12 has גְּוִיָּה).

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 (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: the corpse (1); the corpses (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 10:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.10.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.10.12/#tree)

וַיָּקוּמוּ֮ כָּל־אִ֣ישׁ חַיִל֒ וַיִּשְׂא֞וּ אֶת־גּוּפַ֣ת שָׁא֗וּל וְאֵת֙ גּוּפֹ֣ת בָּנָ֔יו וַיְבִיא֖וּם יָבֵ֑ישָׁה וַיִּקְבְּר֨וּ אֶת־עַצְמוֹתֵיהֶ֜ם תַּ֤חַת הָאֵלָה֙ בְּיָבֵ֔שׁ וַיָּצ֖וּמוּ שִׁבְעַ֥ת יָמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and they.arose every man of.strength and they.took (et) the.corpse of.Saul and (et) the.corpses his.sons his and they brought.them to Jabesh and they.buried (et) bones their under the terebinth in Jabesh and they.fasted seven days

*JPS 1917:* all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the terebinth in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1480.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1480/): 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).