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# גַּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1661

**Gath** — used 33 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

Gath [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1661/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גַּת⁴: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1661/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (wine-press)—Philistine city 𝔊 Γεθ, 𝔙 Geth, JosAnt. vi. 12, 2 etc., Γιττα (ed. Niese), exact site unknown (v. GASmGeog. 194 ff.), named with Gaza and Ashdod Jos 11:22 as home of remaining ʿAnaḳim; named with Ashdod, Gaza, Ashḳelon and ʿEḳron 1 S 6:17; with Ashḳelon 1 S 1:20; with Ashḳelon, Yabne and Ashdod 2 Ch 26:6; מֵעֶקְרוֹן וְעַד־גַּת 1 S 7:14, cf. 17:52b and also v 52a (read גַּת for גַּיְא 𝔊 We Dr); called גַּת פְּלִשְׁתִּים Am 6:2; built up by Rehoboam, according to 2 Ch 11:8; taken by Hazael 2 K 12:18; also 1 S 5:8; 17:4, 23 (of Goliath), cf. 2 S 21:20, 22 = 1 Ch 20:6, 8; 1 S 21:11, 13; 27:2, 3, 4, 11 2 S 15:18 1 K 2:39(×2), 40, 41 ψ 56:1 Mi 1:10, 14 1 Ch 7:21; 8:13, also 18:1 (but ‖ מֶתֶג אַמָּה 2 S 8:1; on change of this into reading in Ch v. We); c. ה loc., גַּ֫תָּה 1 K 2:40.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 30 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Gath (25); of Gath (7); to (1).

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 11:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.11.8/#tree)

וְאֶת־גַּ֥ת וְאֶת־מָרֵשָׁ֖ה וְאֶת־זִֽיף׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Gath and (et) Mareshah and (et) Ziph

*JPS 1917:* and Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,

[1 Kings 2:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.2.41/#tree)

וַיֻּגַּ֖ד לִשְׁלֹמֹ֑ה כִּי־הָלַ֨ךְ שִׁמְעִ֧י מִירוּשָׁלִַ֛ם גַּ֖ת וַיָּשֹֽׁב׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.told to Solomon (dm).that he.had.gone Shimei from Jerusalem Gath and he.had.returned

*JPS 1917:* And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come back.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1661.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1661/): 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).