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title: גּוֹב — locusts · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גּוֹב (1462), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: locusts. BDB 1906: locusts. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גּוֹב

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«גּוֹב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **locusts** — 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:** 1462 · **BDB:** גּוֹב

### Glosses

a.locust (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

locusts [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1462/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

locusts [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1462/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] locusts, Na 3:17; cf. גֹּבַי.

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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 (17 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (11 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גּוֹב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1462/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nahum 3:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.3.17/)

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מִנְּזָרַ֙יִךְ֙ כָּֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה וְטַפְסְרַ֖יִךְ כְּג֣וֹב גֹּבָ֑י הַֽחוֹנִ֤ים בַּגְּדֵרוֹת֙ בְּי֣וֹם קָרָ֔ה שֶׁ֤מֶשׁ זָֽרְחָה֙ וְנוֹדַ֔ד וְלֹֽא־נוֹדַ֥ע מְקוֹמ֖וֹ אַיָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* courtiers your \[are\].like the locust and officials your \[are\].like a.locust of.locust\[s\] \[which\] encamp in the walls on a.day of.coldness \[the\].sun it.rises and it.flees and not it.is.known place its where.\[are\] they?

*JPS 1917:* Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which camp in the walls in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

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