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# גָּזַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1497

**tear away** — used 30 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

tear away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1497/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּזַל: vb. tear away, seize, rob [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1497/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. tear away, seize, rob (NH id., Ph. גזל Niph., Aramaic גְּזַל, ܓܠܰܙ & (Nas.) ܓܙܰܠ; Arabic جَزَلَ cut off)— Pf. גָּזַל Jb 20:19 Ez 18:18, גָּזָ֑ל Lv 5:23 + 2 times, גָּזַלְתִּי ψ 69:5 etc.; Impf. יִגְזֹל Ez 18:7, וַיִּגְזֹל 2 S 23:21 1 Ch 11:23 etc.; Inf. גְּזֹל Is 10:2; Pt. act. גּוֹזֵל Pr 28:24; sf. גֹּזְלוֹ ψ 35:10; pl. cstr. גֹּזְלֵי Mi 3:2; pass. גָּזוּל Dt 28:29 + 4 times;—tear away, rob, c. obj. rei (movable), flock (עֵדֶר) Jb 24:2, ass Dt 28:31, women Ju 21:23 cf. Gn 31:31 (E), tear away orphan child from breast Jb 24:9 יתום מִשֹּׁד, snatch a spear from enemy’s hand 2 S 23:21 = 1 Ch 11:23; fig. of drying up snow-water Jb 24:19; (obj. stationary) take violent possession of, well of water Gn 21:25 (E), house Jb 20:19, fields Mi 2:2; (hyperb.) the skin Mi 3:2; c. acc. cogn. = seize, plunder, obj. גְּזֵלָה Lv 5:23 (P) Ez 18:7, 12, 16, גָּזֵל Ez 18:18; 22:29; indef. ψ 69:5; fig., obj. מִשְׁפָּט Is 10:2; c. obj. pers. robbed ψ 35:10 Pr 22:22; 28:24, prob. also Ju 9:25 cf. Lv 19:13 (H; abs.); cf. also pass. Dt 28:29 (‖ עָשׁוּק); הציל גָּזוּל מיד עושׁק Je 21:12 cf. 22:3; Mal 1:13 גָּזוּל (‖ פִּסֵּחַ lame and חוֹלֶה sick), prob. that rescued after seizure by wild beasts, therefore mutilated. Pf. 3 fs. וְנִגְזְלָה, subj. sleep Pr 4:16 לא (‖ יִשְֽׁנוּ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 30 of its verses cited, 4 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he has robbed (3); \[one who has been\] robbed (2); he robbed (2).

## In the verses

[Job 24:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.2/#tree)

גְּבֻל֥וֹת יַשִּׂ֑יגוּ עֵ֥דֶר גָּ֝זְל֗וּ וַיִּרְעֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* borders people.reach flock\[s\] they.seize and they.have.pastured.\[them\]

*JPS 1917:* There are that remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed them.

[Job 24:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.24.9/#tree)

יִ֭גְזְלוּ מִשֹּׁ֣ד יָת֑וֹם וְֽעַל־עָנִ֥י יַחְבֹּֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* people.tear.away from.\[the\] breast a.fatherless.one and on \[the\].poor they.take.pledges

*JPS 1917:* There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1497.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1497/): 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).