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# גְּשׁוּרִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1651

**Geshurite** — 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

Geshurite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1651/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גְּשׁוּרִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1651/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. = subst. הַגּ׳; people dwelling in Geshûr (supr.) Dt 3:14 Jos 12:5; 13:11, 13. a tribe of, or near, the Philistines Jos 13:2, read prob. הַגִּזְרִי We and Dr (on 1 S 27:8), MeyZAW i. 126 n GFM Ju 1:29 n. also 1 S 27:8, but del 𝔊 (not 𝔊L) cf. We Dr; read possibly אשׁורי Hom Aufsätze i. (1892), 9; 2 S 2:9 read הגּ׳ for האשׁורי.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Geshurite\[s\] (3); the Geshurite\[s\] (3).

## In the verses

[Joshua 13:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.2/#tree)

זֹ֥את הָאָ֖רֶץ הַנִּשְׁאָ֑רֶת כָּל־גְּלִיל֥וֹת הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים וְכָל־הַגְּשׁוּרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* this \[is\].the land \[which\] remains all the.territories of the.Philistines and all the Geshurite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* This is the land that yet remaineth: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;

[Joshua 13:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.11/#tree)

וְהַגִּלְעָ֞ד וּגְב֧וּל הַגְּשׁוּרִ֣י וְהַמַּעֲכָתִ֗י וְכֹ֨ל הַ֥ר חֶרְמ֛וֹן וְכָל־הַבָּשָׁ֖ן עַד־סַלְכָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (the) Gilead and the.territory of the.Geshurite\[s\] and the Maacathite\[s\] and all the.mountain of.Hermon and all (the) Bashan to Salecah

*JPS 1917:* and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1651/): 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).