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# גֶּלֶד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1539

**skin** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

skin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1539/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֶּ֫לֶד: n.m. skin [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1539/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. skin (Arabic جِلْدٌ, Aramaic גִּלְדָּא, ܓܶܠܕܳܐ ) of man Jb 16:15 שַׂק תָּפַרְתִּי עֲלֵי גִלְדִּ֑י.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: skin (1).

## In the verses

[Job 16:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.16.15/#tree)

שַׂ֣ק תָּ֭פַרְתִּי עֲלֵ֣י גִלְדִּ֑י וְעֹלַ֖לְתִּי בֶעָפָ֣ר קַרְנִֽי׃

*Word for word:* sackcloth I.have.sewed over skin my and I.have.inserted in the dust horn my

*JPS 1917:* I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and have laid my horn in the dust.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1539.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1539/): 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).