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# גׇּלְיַת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1555

**Goliath** — used 6 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

Goliath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1555/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּלְיַת: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1555/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (conspicuous? On ending ת cf. Dr 1 S 17:4 & Nö in EutNab 73) (גָּלְיָת 1 Ch 20:5) Philistine giant slain by David 1 S 17:4, 23; 21:10; 22:10, but according to 2 S 21:19 slain by Elhanan of Bethlehem (בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי; according to 1 Ch 20:5 Elhanan slew לַחְמִי brother of Goliath).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Goliath (3); \[was\] Goliath (2); Goliath (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 17:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.4/#tree)

וַיֵּצֵ֤א אִֽישׁ־הַבֵּנַ֙יִם֙ מִמַּחֲנ֣וֹת פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים גָּלְיָ֥ת שְׁמ֖וֹ מִגַּ֑ת גָּבְה֕וֹ שֵׁ֥שׁ אַמּ֖וֹת וָזָֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* and he.came.out the.man of the.champions from the.camps of.\[the\].Philistines \[was\].Goliath name his from Gath height his \[was\].six cubits and a.span

*JPS 1917:* And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

[1 Samuel 22:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.22.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.22.10/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁאַל־לוֹ֙ בַּֽיהוָ֔ה וְצֵידָ֖ה נָ֣תַן ל֑וֹ וְאֵ֗ת חֶ֛רֶב גָּלְיָ֥ת הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖י נָ֥תַן לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.enquired for him by Yahweh and provision\[s\] he.gave to him and (et) the.sword of.Goliath the Philistine he.gave to him

*JPS 1917:* And he inquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1555.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1555/): 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).