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# גֵּו

Biblical Hebrew

**midst** — 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

midst [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b5_5bc_5d5/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] midst, Aramaism (cf. Aramaic גֵּו גְּוָּא middle, NH גֵּו midst, interior; ܓܰܘ id., belly, Arabic جَوٌّ midst) Jb 30:5 מִן־גֵּו יְגֹרָ֑שׁוּ from the mindst (of men) they are driven; Rosenmüller al. comp. Cicero Off. iii. 8: e medio pelluntur.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Job 30:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.30.5/#tree)

מִן־גֵּ֥ו יְגֹרָ֑שׁוּ יָרִ֥יעוּ עָ֝לֵ֗ימוֹ כַּגַּנָּֽב׃

*Word for word:* from \[the\].community they.are.driven.away people.shout on them like (the) thief

*JPS 1917:* They are driven forth from the midst of men; they cry after them as after a thief.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d2_5b5_5bc_5d5.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b5_5bc_5d5/): 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).