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גֵּז

«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.

Used: 4 times · Key: 1488 · BDB: גֵּז²

Glosses

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

Meaning (OSHB)

shearing tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

shearing, mowing tree →

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).

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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Psalms 72:6

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.

Job 31:20

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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