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# גֵּרוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1628

**lodging** — 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

lodging [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1628/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גּרוּת: n.f. lodging(-place) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1628/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. lodging(-place)—וישׁבו בְּגֵרוּת כִּמְוהָם אשׁר אצל בית לחם Je 41:17, inn, khan? so Ew Gf; Hi al. גִּדְרוֹת flods, after JosAnt. X, ix, 5 Aq

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Geruth (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 41:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.41.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.41.17/#tree)

וַיֵּלְכ֗וּ וַיֵּֽשְׁבוּ֙ בְּגֵר֣וּת כִּמְהָ֔ם אֲשֶׁר־אֵ֖צֶל בֵּ֣ית לָ֑חֶם בֵּ֣ית לָ֑חֶם לָלֶ֖כֶת לָב֥וֹא מִצְרָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* and they.went and they.remained at Geruth Kimham which \[is\].beside Bethlehem Bethlehem to go to go Egypt

*JPS 1917:* and they departed, and dwelt in Geruth Chimham, which is by Beth-lehem, to go to enter into Egypt,

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1628/): 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).