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# גִּזָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1492

**fleece** — used 7 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

fleece [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1492/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גִּזָּה²: n.f. fleece [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1492/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. fleece—(Arabicجِزَّةٌ, Aramaic ܓܶܙܬܳܐ ) גִּזָּה Ju 6:37 + 5 times; cstr. גִּזַּת Ju 6:37;—fleece, ג׳ צֶמֶר Ju 6:37; abs. Ju 6:37, 38(×2), 39(×2), 40.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fleece (6); the fleece (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 6:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.6.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.6.38/#tree)

וַיְהִי־כֵ֕ן וַיַּשְׁכֵּם֙ מִֽמָּחֳרָ֔ת וַיָּ֖זַר אֶת־הַגִּזָּ֑ה וַיִּ֤מֶץ טַל֙ מִן־הַגִּזָּ֔ה מְל֥וֹא הַסֵּ֖פֶל מָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and it.was so and he.rose.early from.\[the\] next.day and he.squeezed.out (et) the fleece and he.drained dew from the fleece the.fullness of the.bowl water

*JPS 1917:* And it was so; for he rose up early on the morrow, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung dew out of the fleece, a bowlful of water.

[Judges 6:40](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.6.40/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.6.40/#tree)

וַיַּ֧עַשׂ אֱלֹהִ֛ים כֵּ֖ן בַּלַּ֣יְלָה הַה֑וּא וַיְהִי־חֹ֤רֶב אֶל־הַגִּזָּה֙ לְבַדָּ֔הּ וְעַל־כָּל־הָאָ֖רֶץ הָ֥יָה טָֽל׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.did God so in the night (the) that and it.was dryness to the fleece it alone and on all the ground it.was dew

*JPS 1917:* And God did so that night; for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1492.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1492/): 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).