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title: גְּשׁוּרִי — Geshurite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גְּשׁוּרִי (1651), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: Geshurite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גְּשׁוּרִי

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«גְּשׁוּרִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Geshurite** — 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:** 6 times · **Key:** 1651 · **BDB:** גְּשׁוּרִי

### Glosses

Geshurite\[s\] (3); the.Geshurite\[s\] (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Geshurite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1651/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1651/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. = subst. הַגּ׳; people dwelling in Geshûr (supr.) Dt 3:14 Jos 12:5; 13:11, 13. a tribe of, or near, the Philistines Jos 13:2, read prob. הַגִּזְרִי We and Dr (on 1 S 27:8), MeyZAW i. 126 n GFM Ju 1:29 n. also 1 S 27:8, but del 𝔊 (not 𝔊L) cf. We Dr; read possibly אשׁורי Hom Aufsätze i. (1892), 9; 2 S 2:9 read הגּ׳ for האשׁורי.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גְּשׁוּרִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1651/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 13:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.2/)

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זֹ֥את הָאָ֖רֶץ הַנִּשְׁאָ֑רֶת כָּל־גְּלִיל֥וֹת הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים וְכָל־הַגְּשׁוּרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* this \[is\].the land \[which\] remains all the.territories of the.Philistines and all the Geshurite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* This is the land that yet remaineth: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;

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[Joshua 13:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.13.11/)

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וְהַגִּלְעָ֞ד וּגְב֧וּל הַגְּשׁוּרִ֣י וְהַמַּעֲכָתִ֗י וְכֹ֨ל הַ֥ר חֶרְמ֛וֹן וְכָל־הַבָּשָׁ֖ן עַד־סַלְכָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (the) Gilead and the.territory of the.Geshurite\[s\] and the Maacathite\[s\] and all the.mountain of.Hermon and all (the) Bashan to Salecah

*JPS 1917:* and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;

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