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# גָּזַז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1494

**shear** — used 15 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

shear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1494/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּזַז: vb. shear [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1494/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. shear (NH id., Aramaic גְּזָז, ܓܰܙ; Arabic جَزَّ, Assyrian deriv.)— Impf. וַיָּ֫גָז Jb 1:20; 2 ms. תָּגֹז Dt 15:19; Imv. 2 fs. גָּזִּ֫י Je 7:29, גֹּ֫זִּי Mi 1:16; Inf. cstr. גְּזֹז Gn 31:19 (E) 1 S 25:2, גֹּז Gn 38:13 (J); Pt.; גֹּזֵז 1 S 25:4; pl. גֹּזֲזִים 1 S 25:7 + 2 times; cstr. גֹּזֲזֵי Gn 38:12; sf. גֹּזֲזָי֑ 1 S 25:11, גֹּזֲזֶיהָ Is 53:7;—shear sheep (obj. צֹאן) Gn 31:19; 38:13; Dt 15:19 1 S 25:2, 4; cf. Pt. shearer (c. צאן) Gn 38:12, also גֹּזֲזֶיהָ (i.e. רָחֵל) Is 53:7; abs. = sheep-shearer, 1 S 25:7, 11 2 S 13:23, 24; obj. man’s head (ראשׁוֹ) Jb 1:20; of a woman’s (fig. of Israel) Mi 1:16 (no obj.; ‖ קרחי), (fig. of Jerusalem) Je 7:29 (obj. נֵזֶר q.v.) נָגוֹ֫זּוּ be cut off (= destroyed) of Assyrians Na 1:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: shearers (5); shave (2); shear (2).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 25:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.25.4/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁמַ֥ע דָּוִ֖ד בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר כִּֽי־גֹזֵ֥ז נָבָ֖ל אֶת־צֹאנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.heard David in the wilderness (dm).that \[was\].shearing Nabal (et) sheep his

*JPS 1917:* And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

[Genesis 38:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.38.13/#tree)

וַיֻּגַּ֥ד לְתָמָ֖ר לֵאמֹ֑ר הִנֵּ֥ה חָמִ֛יךְ עֹלֶ֥ה תִמְנָ֖תָה לָגֹ֥ז צֹאנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.told to Tamar (cmp) there! father-in-law your \[is\].going.up to Timnah to shear sheep his

*JPS 1917:* And it was told Tamar, saying: 'Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnah to shear his sheep.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1494.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1494/): 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).