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title: גֶּבֶא — cistern · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גֶּבֶא (1360), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: cistern. BDB 1906: n.m. cistern, pool. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גֶּבֶא

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«גֶּבֶא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cistern** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 1360 · **BDB:** גֶּ֫בֶא

### Glosses

a.cistern (1); marshes (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cistern [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1360/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. cistern, pool [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1360/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 47:11 cistern, pool (cf. Arabic جَابِيَةٌ watering-trough)— cistern מֵיִם מִגֶּ֑בֶא Is 30:14. pool, marsh גְּבָאָיו Ez 47:13 (‖ בִּצֹּאתָ‌֯ו).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גֶּבֶא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1360/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 47:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.47.11/)

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בִּצֹּאתָ֧יו וּגְבָאָ֛יו וְלֹ֥א יֵרָפְא֖וּ לְמֶ֥לַח נִתָּֽנוּ׃

*Word for word:* swamps its and marshes its and not they.will.be.healed to salt they.will.be.given

*JPS 1917:* But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given for salt.

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[Isaiah 30:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.30.14/)

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וּ֠שְׁבָרָהּ כְּשֵׁ֨בֶר נֵ֧בֶל יוֹצְרִ֛ים כָּת֖וּת לֹ֣א יַחְמֹ֑ל וְלֹֽא־יִמָּצֵ֤א בִמְכִתָּתוֹ֙ חֶ֔רֶשׂ לַחְתּ֥וֹת אֵשׁ֙ מִיָּק֔וּד וְלַחְשֹׂ֥ף מַ֖יִם מִגֶּֽבֶא׃פ

*Word for word:* and someone will.break.it like.\[the\] breaking of.a.jar of.potters crushed \[which\].not anyone.will.spare and not it.will.be.found among fragment\[s\] its a.potsherd to snatch.up fire from a.fireplace and to draw water from a.cistern

*JPS 1917:* And He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the cistern.

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