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

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«גֵּב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **beam** — 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:** lemma:גֵּב · **BDB:** גֵּב⁴

### Glosses

beams (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

beam [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b5_5bc_5d1/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

beam, rafter [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b5_5bc_5d1/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] beam, rafter? (Thes sub גוב, but meaning \& √ dub.), גֵּבִים 1 K 6:9; but LagArmen. Stud. § 499, M i.212; BN 155 reads גֻּבְּדִים (Pers. گنبد, Armen. γμβεθ) vaulted roofs.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (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 «גֵּב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/lemma_3a_5d2_5b5_5bc_5d1/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 6:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.9/)

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וַיִּ֥בֶן אֶת־הַבַּ֖יִת וַיְכַלֵּ֑הוּ וַיִּסְפֹּ֤ן אֶת־הַבַּ֙יִת֙ גֵּבִ֔ים וּשְׂדֵרֹ֖ת בָּאֲרָזִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.built (et) the house and he finished.it and he.paneled (et) the house beams and planks with (the) cedar(s)

*JPS 1917:* So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered in the house with planks of cedar over beams.

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