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# גָּמָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1572

**swallow** — used 2 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

swallow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1572/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּמָא: vb. swallow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1572/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. swallow (liquids), (NH id.; cf. Aramaic גְּמָא, גְּמַע, ܓܡܰܥ; perhaps cf. also Ethiopic ግምዔ jar, vessel v. Di)— Impf. יְגַמֶּא־אֶרֶץ Jb 39:24 fig. of horse in swift gallop; (this, however, possibly denom. from גּוּמָּא NH, Aramaic גּוּמְּתָא, ܓܽܘܡܬܳܐ pit, hollow, i.e. he makes \[paws or stamps\] hollows in the earth). Imv. fs. sf. הַגְמִיאִינִי נָא מְעַט־מַיִם Gn 24:17 let me drink a little water, pray.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: give (1); it swallows (1).

## In the verses

[Job 39:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.24/#tree)

בְּרַ֣עַשׁ וְ֭רֹגֶז יְגַמֶּא־אָ֑רֶץ וְלֹֽא־יַ֝אֲמִ֗ין כִּי־ק֥וֹל שׁוֹפָֽר׃

*Word for word:* with shaking and excitement it.swallows \[the\].ground and not it.stands.firm (dm) \[the\].sound of.a.horn

*JPS 1917:* He swalloweth the ground with storm and rage; neither believeth he that it is the voice of the horn.

[Genesis 24:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.24.17/#tree)

וַיָּ֥רָץ הָעֶ֖בֶד לִקְרָאתָ֑הּ וַיֹּ֕אמֶר הַגְמִיאִ֥ינִי נָ֛א מְעַט־מַ֖יִם מִכַּדֵּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and he.ran the servant to meet her and he.said give me.to.drink please a.little of.water from jar your

*JPS 1917:* And the servant ran to meet her, and said: 'Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1572.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1572/): 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).