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title: גֵּבָה — high · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גֵּבָה (1357), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: high. BDB 1906: locust. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גֵּבָה

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«גֵּבָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **high** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1357 · **BDB:** גֵּבֶה

### Glosses

of.locusts (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

high [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1357/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

locust [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1357/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[p.\] locust (name from swarm, collection, Ethiopic ጉባኤ cf. also Ethiopic አንበጣ locust √ = Arabic نَبَطَ scaturivit, manavit), only pl. גֵּבִים Is 33:4 (in sim. of leaping).—גֵּב ii, iii, v. sub גוב.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גֵּבָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1357/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 33:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.33.4/)

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וְאֻסַּ֣ף שְׁלַלְכֶ֔ם אֹ֖סֶף הֶֽחָסִ֑יל כְּמַשַּׁ֥ק גֵּבִ֖ים שׁוֹקֵ֥ק בּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be.gathered plunder your (the).gathering of.(the) locust\[s\] like.\[the\] rushing of.locusts \[someone.will.be\].rushing on it

*JPS 1917:* And your spoil is gathered as the caterpillar gathereth; as locusts leap do they leap upon it.

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