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# גֵּיחֲזִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1522

**Gehazi** — used 12 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

Gehazi [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1522/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֵּיחֲזִי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1522/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (valley of vision?) servant of Elisha, גֵיחֲזִי 2 K 4:12, 14, 25, 27, 29, 36; 5:20, 21; גֵּחֲזִי 2 K 4:31; 5:25; 8:4, 5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Gehazi (11); O Gehazi (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 4:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.14/#tree)

וַיֹּ֕אמֶר וּמֶ֖ה לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת לָ֑הּ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר גֵּיחֲזִ֗י אֲבָ֛ל בֵּ֥ן אֵֽין־לָ֖הּ וְאִישָׁ֥הּ זָקֵֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.said and what? \[is\].to do for her and he.said Gehazi indeed a.son there.\[belongs\].not to her and husband her he.is.old

*JPS 1917:* And he said: 'What then is to be done for her?' And Gehazi answered: 'Verily she hath no son, and her husband is old.'

[2 Kings 4:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.12/#tree)

וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אֶל־גֵּחֲזִ֣י נַעֲר֔וֹ קְרָ֖א לַשּׁוּנַמִּ֣ית הַזֹּ֑את וַיִּקְרָא־לָ֔הּ וַֽתַּעֲמֹ֖ד לְפָנָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to Gehazi servant his summon (to).the Shunammite \[woman\] (the) this and he.summoned (to) her and she.stood before him

*JPS 1917:* And he said to Gehazi his servant: 'Call this Shunammite.' And when he had called her, she stood before him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1522.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1522/): 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).