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title: גִּשְׁפָּא — Gispa · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גִּשְׁפָּא (1658), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Gispa. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גִּשְׁפָּא

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«גִּשְׁפָּא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Gispa** — 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:** 1658 · **BDB:** גִּשְׁפָּא

### Glosses

Gishpa (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Gispa [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1658/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1658/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. named after צִיחָא as an officer of Nethinim Ne 11:21; v. om. B; 𝔊L \& Codd. Γεσφα; name not elsewhere in OT, not even ‖ 1 Ch 9; possibly corrupted from חֲשֻׂפָא Ne 7:46 (following צִחָא; in ‖ Ezr 2:43 חֲשׁוּפָא, צִיחָא), 𝔊 Ἁσφα (B; Codd. Ασειφα, etc.); cf. BeRy.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גִּשְׁפָּא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1658/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 11:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.21/)

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וְהַנְּתִינִ֖ים יֹשְׁבִ֣ים בָּעֹ֑פֶל וְצִיחָ֥א וְגִשְׁפָּ֖א עַל־הַנְּתִינִֽים׃פ

*Word for word:* and the.temple servants \[were\].dwelling on (the) Ophel and Ziha and Gishpa \[were\].over the.temple servants

*JPS 1917:* But the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel; and Ziha and Gishpa were over the Nethinim.

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