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# גֵּז

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1488

**shearing** — 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

shearing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1488/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֵּז²: shearing, mowing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1488/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] shearing, mowing (Assyrian gizzu ZehnpfundBAS i. 530, Aramaic גִּיזָּא, ܓܶܙܳܐ fleece)—גֵּז ψ 72:6, also cstr. Dt 18:4 Jb 31:20; pl. cstr. גִּזֵּי Am 7:1;—shearing = thing sheared off, wool, fleece ג׳ צֹאן Dt 18:4, ג׳ כְּבָשַׂי Jb 31:20; mowing Am 7:1 (ג׳ הַמֶּלֶךְ cf. RSSemi. 228); = land to be mown ψ 72:6 (but shearing in both, according to HoffmZAW 1883, 116 ff. SS).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 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: mown grass (1); of the fleece (1); the fleece (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 72:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.6/#tree)

יֵ֭רֵד כְּמָטָ֣ר עַל־גֵּ֑ז כִּ֝רְבִיבִ֗ים זַרְזִ֥יף אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* he.will.come.down like rain on mown.grass like showers dropping of.\[the\].earth

*JPS 1917:* May he come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

[Job 31:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.20/#tree)

אִם־לֹ֣א בֵרֲכ֣וּנִי חֲלָצָ֑יו וּמִגֵּ֥ז כְּ֝בָשַׂי יִתְחַמָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* if not they blessed.me loins his and from the.fleece my.lambs my he.warmed.himself

*JPS 1917:* If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1488.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1488/): 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).