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# גֶּזֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1507

**Gazer** — 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

Gazer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1507/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֶּ֫זֶר²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1507/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (portion) Levitical city on border of Ephraim Jos 10:33; 12:12; 21:21; 1 K 9:16; 1 Ch 6:52; 7:28; 20:4; גָּ֑זֶר Jos 16:3, 10; Ju 1:29(×2) cf. 2 S 5:25; 1 K 9:15, 17; c. ה—ָ loc. גָּ֑זְרָה 1 Ch 14:16;—cuneiform Gazri, BezTell el-Amarna Tabl. BM. 148; mod. Tell-Jezer, c. 18 m. N. of W. from Jerus., S. of the Jaffa road; Gann in PEF 1873, 78 f.; 1875, 74 f. cf. BdPal. 17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 14 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Gezer (12); of Gezer (2); (to) (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 12:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.12/#tree)

מֶ֤לֶךְ עֶגְלוֹן֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶ֥לֶךְ גֶּ֖זֶר אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Eglon one the.king of.Gezer one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

[1 Kings 9:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.9.17/#tree)

וַיִּ֤בֶן שְׁלֹמֹה֙ אֶת־גָּ֔זֶר וְאֶת־בֵּ֥ית חֹרֹ֖ן בֵּ֥ית חֹרֹ֖ן תַּחְתּֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* and he.rebuilt Solomon (et) Gezer and (et) Beth Horon lower

*JPS 1917:* And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1507.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1507/): 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).