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# גִּזְרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1508

**cutting** — used 8 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

cutting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1508/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גִּזְרָה: n.f. separation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1508/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. cutting, separation—גִּזְרָה Ez 41:12 + 6 times; sf. גִּזְרָתָם La 4:7;— cutting, i.e. polishing (AV RV or carving, i.e. beauty of form, shape, cf. VB) סַפִּיר גִּזְרָתָם La 4:7; their polishing (or beauty of form) was as sapphire. separation, הַגִּזְרָה Ez 41:12, 13, 14, 15; 42:1, 10, 13, separate place AV RV cf. Da; i.e. yard, or space adjoining temple on three sides.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the separate place (4); place (3); polishing (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 41:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.41.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.41.14/#tree)

וְרֹחַב֩ פְּנֵ֨י הַבַּ֧יִת וְהַגִּזְרָ֛ה לַקָּדִ֖ים מֵאָ֥ה אַמָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the.breadth of.the.front of the.house and the.separate place to the east \[was\].a.hundred cubit\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* also the breadth of the face of the house and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits.

[Lamentations 4:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.4.7/#tree)

זַכּ֤וּ נְזִירֶ֙יהָ֙ מִשֶּׁ֔לֶג צַח֖וּ מֵחָלָ֑ב אָ֤דְמוּ עֶ֙צֶם֙ מִפְּנִינִ֔ים סַפִּ֖יר גִּזְרָתָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* they.were.bright of.high.rank its.ones more than.snow they.were.dazzling more than.milk they.were.red bone more than.corals \[was\].sapphire polishing their

*JPS 1917:* Her princes were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1508.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1508/): 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).