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title: גָּבִיעַ — cup · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גָּבִיעַ (1375), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 14 times: cup. BDB 1906: n.m. cup, bowl. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גָּבִיעַ

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«גָּבִיעַ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cup** — 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:** 14 times · **Key:** 1375 · **BDB:** גָּבִיעַ

### Glosses

cups (8); cup (4); bowls (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cup [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1375/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. cup, bowl [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1375/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 44:12 cup, bowl—ג׳ Gn 44:12 + 2 times; cstr. גְּבִיעַ Gn 44:2; sf. גְּבִיעִי Gn 44:2; pl. גְּבִיעִים Ex 25:34, גְּבִעִים v 33(×2) + 4 times; sf. גְּבִיעֶיהָ Ex 25:31; 34:17;—cup (of Joseph) Gn 44:2, 12, 16, 17; pl. cups (of golden candlestick in tab.) Ex 25:31, 33(×2), 34; 37:17, 19(×2), 20; bowls Je 35:5 גְּבִעִים מלאים יין וכֹסוֹת.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גָּבִיעַ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1375/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 25:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.34/)

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וּבַמְּנֹרָ֖ה אַרְבָּעָ֣ה גְבִעִ֑ים מְשֻׁקָּדִ֔ים כַּפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָ וּפְרָחֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and \[will be\] on.the.lampstand four cups shaped.like.almond.blossoms bulbs its and blossoms its

*JPS 1917:* And in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof.

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[Exodus 37:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.37.20/)

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וּבַמְּנֹרָ֖ה אַרְבָּעָ֣ה גְבִעִ֑ים מְשֻׁ֨קָּדִ֔ים כַּפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָ וּפְרָחֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] on the lampstand four cups shaped.like.almond.blossoms bulbs its and blossoms its

*JPS 1917:* And in the candlestick were four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof;

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