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# גָּעָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1600

**low** — 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

low [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1600/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּעָה: vb. low [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1600/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. low (of cattle) (NH id., Aramaic גְּעָא, ܓܥܳܐ )—יִגְעֶה־שׁוֹר Jb 6:5; הָלֹךְ וְגָעוֹ 1 S 6:12.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: does it low (1); lowing (1).

## In the verses

[Job 6:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.5/#tree)

הֲיִֽנְהַק־פֶּ֥רֶא עֲלֵי־דֶ֑שֶׁא אִ֥ם יִגְעֶה־שּׁ֝֗וֹר עַל־בְּלִילֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* does it.bray? a.wild.donkey on fresh.grass or? does.it.low an.ox on fodder its

*JPS 1917:* Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

[1 Samuel 6:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.6.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.6.12/#tree)

וַיִשַּׁ֨רְנָההַפָּר֜וֹת בַּדֶּ֗רֶךְ עַל־דֶּ֙רֶךְ֙ בֵּ֣ית שֶׁ֔מֶשׁ בֵּ֣ית שֶׁ֔מֶשׁ בִּמְסִלָּ֣ה אַחַ֗ת הָלְכ֤וּ הָלֹךְ֙ וְגָע֔וֹ וְלֹא־סָ֖רוּ יָמִ֣ין וּשְׂמֹ֑אול וְסַרְנֵ֤י פְלִשְׁתִּים֙ הֹלְכִ֣ים אַחֲרֵיהֶ֔ם עַד־גְּב֖וּל בֵּ֥ית שָֽׁמֶשׁ בֵּ֥ית שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.straight the cows in the road on the.road of Beth.Shemesh on a.highway one they.went going and lowing and not they.turned.aside right.hand and left.hand and the.rulers of.\[the\].Philistines \[were\].going after them to the.border of Beth.Shemesh

*JPS 1917:* And the kine took the straight way by the way to Beth-shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Beth-shemesh.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1600.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1600/): 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).