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# גָּזֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1498

**robbery** — used 4 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

robbery [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1498/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּזֵל: robbery but [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1498/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] robbery—abs. גָּזֵל Lv 5:21 + 3 times + Ez 18:18 cf. infr.; cstr. גֵּ֫זֶל Ec 5:7 Ez 18:18 (but cf. infr.);—robbery Lv 5:21 (P) ψ 62:11 (‖ עֹשֶׁק) Is 61:8; = thing plundered, taken as plunder, as acc. cogn. Ez 22:29 (גָּזַל גָּזֵל); fig. גֵּזֶל משפט = wresting of justice (cf. Is 10:2) Ec 5:7—Ez 18:18 has גֵּזֶל אָח, but 𝔊 Co del. אח; read then גָּזֵל.—Cf. LagBN 172.

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 (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: robbery (4).

## In the verses

[Psalms 62:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.62.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.62.11/#tree)

אַל־תִּבְטְח֣וּ בְעֹשֶׁק֮ וּבְגָזֵ֪ל אַל־תֶּ֫הְבָּ֥לוּ חַ֤יִל ׀ כִּֽי־יָנ֑וּב אַל־תָּשִׁ֥יתוּ לֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* do.not trust in extortion and in robbery do.not put.vain.hope wealth (dm) it.will.bear.fruit do.not set heart

*JPS 1917:* Trust not in oppression, and put not vain hope in robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart thereon.

[Isaiah 61:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.61.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.61.8/#tree)

כִּ֣י אֲנִ֤י יְהוָה֙ אֹהֵ֣ב מִשְׁפָּ֔ט שֹׂנֵ֥א גָזֵ֖ל בְּעוֹלָ֑ה וְנָתַתִּ֤י פְעֻלָּתָם֙ בֶּאֱמֶ֔ת וּבְרִ֥ית עוֹלָ֖ם אֶכְר֥וֹת לָהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) I Yahweh \[am\].loving justice \[I.am\].hating robbery with injustice and I.will.give wage\[s\] their in faithfulness and a.covenant of.perpetuity I.will.make to them

*JPS 1917:* For I the LORD love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1498.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1498/): 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).