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title: גֵּז — shearing · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גֵּז (1488), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: shearing. BDB 1906: shearing, mowing. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גֵּז

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«גֵּז» in the Tanakh dictionary: **shearing** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 1488 · **BDB:** גֵּז²

### Glosses

mown.grass (1); of.the.fleece (1); the.fleece (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

shearing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1488/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

shearing, mowing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1488/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] shearing, mowing (Assyrian gizzu ZehnpfundBAS i. 530, Aramaic גִּיזָּא, ܓܶܙܳܐ fleece)—גֵּז ψ 72:6, also cstr. Dt 18:4 Jb 31:20; pl. cstr. גִּזֵּי Am 7:1;—shearing = thing sheared off, wool, fleece ג׳ צֹאן Dt 18:4, ג׳ כְּבָשַׂי Jb 31:20; mowing Am 7:1 (ג׳ הַמֶּלֶךְ cf. RSSemi. 228); = land to be mown ψ 72:6 (but shearing in both, according to HoffmZAW 1883, 116 ff. SS).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גֵּז» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1488/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 72:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.72.6/)

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יֵ֭רֵד כְּמָטָ֣ר עַל־גֵּ֑ז כִּ֝רְבִיבִ֗ים זַרְזִ֥יף אָֽרֶץ׃

*Word for word:* he.will.come.down like rain on mown.grass like showers dropping of.\[the\].earth

*JPS 1917:* May he come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.

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[Job 31:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.31.20/)

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אִם־לֹ֣א בֵרֲכ֣וּנִי חֲלָצָ֑יו וּמִגֵּ֥ז כְּ֝בָשַׂי יִתְחַמָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* if not they blessed.me loins his and from the.fleece my.lambs my he.warmed.himself

*JPS 1917:* If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

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