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title: גִּבֵּן — crook-backed · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גִּבֵּן (1384), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: crook-backed. BDB 1906: adj. crook-backed, hump-backed. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גִּבֵּן

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«גִּבֵּן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **crook-backed** — 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:** 1384 · **BDB:** גִּבֵּן

### Glosses

a.\[man\].hunchbacked (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

crook-backed [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1384/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. crook-backed, hump-backed [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1384/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. crook-backed, hump-backed (cf. Aramaic גְּבִין id., NH גַּבָּן highlander; also NH גבין, Aramaic גבינא, ܓܒܺܝܢܳܐ, all = brow (eyebrow, etc.); cf. Arabic جَبِينٌ side of forehead), Lv 21:20.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גִּבֵּן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1384/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 21:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.21.20/)

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אֽוֹ־גִבֵּ֣ן אוֹ־דַ֔ק א֖וֹ תְּבַלֻּ֣ל בְּעֵינ֑וֹ א֤וֹ גָרָב֙ א֣וֹ יַלֶּ֔פֶת א֖וֹ מְר֥וֹחַ אָֽשֶׁךְ׃

*Word for word:* or a.\[man\].hunchbacked or a.\[man\].thin or a.defect in eye his or a.festering.rash or scab\[s\] or a.\[man\].crushed of.testicle

*JPS 1917:* or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath his eye overspread, or is scabbed, or scurvy, or hath his stones crushed;

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