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# גַּף

Biblical Hebrew

**body** — used 3 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

body [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b7_5bc_5e3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גַּף²: n.m. body, self, height, elevation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b7_5bc_5e3/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. body, self, height, elevation (cf. NH גּוּף)—sg. sf. גַּפּוֹ Ex 21:3(×2), 4; pl. cstr. גַּפֵּי Pr 9:3;— body, self, only in phr. יָבֹא בְּגַפּוֹ (יֵצֵא) he shall come in (go out) by himself (with his body) Ex 21:3(×2), 4; in law of slave (cf. Di) height, elevation עַל־גַּפֵּי מְרֹמֵי קָ֑רֶת Pr 9:3.

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

## In the verses

[Exodus 21:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.3/#tree)

אִם־בְּגַפּ֥וֹ יָבֹ֖א בְּגַפּ֣וֹ יֵצֵ֑א אִם־בַּ֤עַל אִשָּׁה֙ ה֔וּא וְיָצְאָ֥ה אִשְׁתּ֖וֹ עִמּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* if with body his he.will.come with body his he.will.go.out if \[is.the\].husband of.a.wife he and she.will.go.out wife his with him

*JPS 1917:* If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself; if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

[Exodus 21:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.21.4/#tree)

אִם־אֲדֹנָיו֙ יִתֶּן־ל֣וֹ אִשָּׁ֔ה וְיָלְדָה־ל֥וֹ בָנִ֖ים א֣וֹ בָנ֑וֹת הָאִשָּׁ֣ה וִילָדֶ֗יהָ תִּהְיֶה֙ לַֽאדֹנֶ֔יהָ וְה֖וּא יֵצֵ֥א בְגַפּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* if master(s) his he.will.give to him a.wife and she.will.bear to him sons or daughters the woman and children her she.will.belong to master(s) her and he he.will.go.out with body his

*JPS 1917:* If his master give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d2_5b7_5bc_5e3.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b7_5bc_5e3/): 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).