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# גֶּזֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1506

**part** — used 2 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

part [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1506/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֶּ֫זֶר: part [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1506/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. \[m.\] part, only pl. הַגְּזָרִים Gn 15:17 of halves of animals; גְּזָרִים ψ 136:13 of divided portions of Red Sea.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: pieces (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 136:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.136.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.136.13/#tree)

לְגֹזֵ֣ר יַם־ס֭וּף לִגְזָרִ֑ים כִּ֖י לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* to \[one.who\].cut \[the\].sea of.reed\[s\] into pieces (dm) \[is\] forever loyalty his.covenant

*JPS 1917:* To Him who divided the Red Sea in sunder, for His mercy endureth for ever;

[Genesis 15:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.17/#tree)

וַיְהִ֤י הַשֶּׁ֙מֶשׁ֙ בָּ֔אָה וַעֲלָטָ֖ה הָיָ֑ה וְהִנֵּ֨ה תַנּ֤וּר עָשָׁן֙ וְלַפִּ֣יד אֵ֔שׁ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָבַ֔ר בֵּ֖ין הַגְּזָרִ֥ים הָאֵֽלֶּה׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the sun it.had.gone and darkness it.was and there! a.fire.pot of.smoke and a.torch of.fire which it.passed between the pieces (the) these

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and there was thick darkness, behold a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1506.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1506/): 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).