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title: גְּבֶרֶת — mistress · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גְּבֶרֶת (1404), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: mistress. BDB 1906: n.f. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גְּבֶרֶת

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«גְּבֶרֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **mistress** — 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 1404 · **BDB:** גְּבֶ֫רֶת

### Glosses

mistress (6); a.queen (1); her.mistress (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

mistress [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1404/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1404/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. lady, queen, Is 47:5, 7. mistress of servants, sf. גְּבִרְתִּי Gn 16:8; גְּבִרְתֵּךְ Gn 16:9; גְּבִרְתָּהּ Gn 16:4 2 K 5:3 ψ 123:2 Pr 30:23; (pl. גברת women MI16); גְּבִרְתָּהּ Is 24:2.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 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 «גְּבֶרֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1404/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Proverbs 30:23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.30.23/)

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תַּ֣חַת שְׂ֭נוּאָה כִּ֣י תִבָּעֵ֑ל וְ֝שִׁפְחָ֗ה כִּֽי־תִירַ֥שׁ גְּבִרְתָּֽהּ׃פ

*Word for word:* under a.\[woman.who.is\].hated (dm) she.will.be.married and a.female.servant (dm) she.will.dispossess mistress her

*JPS 1917:* For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

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[Genesis 16:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.16.9/)

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וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהּ֙ מַלְאַ֣ךְ יְהוָ֔ה שׁ֖וּבִי אֶל־גְּבִרְתֵּ֑ךְ וְהִתְעַנִּ֖י תַּ֥חַת יָדֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to her the.angel of.Yahweh return to mistress your and humble.yourself under hands her

*JPS 1917:* And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.'

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