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title: גּוּז — pass over · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גּוּז (1468), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: pass over. BDB 1906: vb. pass over, away. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גּוּז

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«גּוּז» in the Tanakh dictionary: **pass over** — 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:** 1468 · **BDB:** גּוּז

### Glosses

it.brought (1); it.passes.away (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

pass over [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1468/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. pass over, away [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1468/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. pass over, away (Arabic جَازَ pass by, over; Aramaic גּוּז cross, ܓܳܙ pass away, fail)— Pf. גָּז ψ 90:10; Impf. וַיָּ֫גָז Nu 11:31;—pass away, of the life of the aged, ψ 90:10 גָּז חִישׁ; trans. bring over, subj. wind, obj. quails from sea, Nu 11:31 (read perhaps Hiph. וַיָּגֶז cf. Köi 442 Di).

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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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גּוּז» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1468/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 90:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.90.10/)

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יְמֵֽי־שְׁנוֹתֵ֨ינוּ בָהֶ֥ם שִׁבְעִ֪ים שָׁנָ֡ה וְאִ֤ם בִּגְבוּרֹ֨ת ׀ שְׁמ֘וֹנִ֤ים שָׁנָ֗ה וְ֭רָהְבָּם עָמָ֣ל וָאָ֑וֶן כִּי־גָ֥ז חִ֝֗ישׁ וַנָּעֻֽפָה׃

*Word for word:* the.days our.years our in them \[are\].seventy year\[s\] and if by strength(s) eighty year\[s\] and pride their \[is\].toil and trouble (dm) it.passes.away quickly and we flew.away

*JPS 1917:* The days of our years are threescore years and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore years; yet is their pride but travail and vanity; for it is speedily gone, and we fly away.

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[Numbers 11:31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.31/)

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וְר֜וּחַ נָסַ֣ע ׀ מֵאֵ֣ת יְהוָ֗ה וַיָּ֣גָז שַׂלְוִים֮ מִן־הַיָּם֒ וַיִּטֹּ֨שׁ עַל־הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֜ה כְּדֶ֧רֶךְ י֣וֹם כֹּ֗ה וּכְדֶ֤רֶךְ יוֹם֙ כֹּ֔ה סְבִיב֖וֹת הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑ה וּכְאַמָּתַ֖יִם עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הָאָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* and a.wind it.set.out from with Yahweh and it.brought quails from the sea and it.left.\[them\] at the camp about a.journey of.a.day thus and about a.journey of.a.day thus around the camp and about two.cubits above the.surface of the.ground

*JPS 1917:* And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought across quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day's journey on this side, and a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the earth.

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