Lexicon geb: beam Original Word: גֵּבִיםPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: geb Phonetic Spelling: (gabe) Short Definition: beam Brown-Driver-Briggs II. [ גֵּב] pit, III. [ גֵּב] beam, see below גוב. II. גֵּב noun [masculine] pit, ditch, trench, (Arabic  hollow, depression; Syriac  cistern) — only plural גֵּבִים Jeremiah 14:3; in 2 Kings 3:16 גבים גבים, i.e. full of ditches; further, cisterns (according to Klo 2 Kings 25:12) Jeremiah 39:10 וִּיגֵבִים (read וְגֵבִים); compare also "" 2 Kings 25:12 (ולגבים Kt, וּלְיוֺגְבִים Qr) = Jeremiah 52:16 (וּלְֹיגְבִים; both with כֹּרְמִים); Klo propose to emend these, so as to read in all וַיִּתֵּן לָהֶם כְּרָמִים וְגֵבִים and gave to them vineyards and cisterns; another view in Th; compare further גוב, יגב. — I. גֵּב see below גבה. III. [גֵּב] noun [masculine] beam, rafter? (Thes below גוב, but meaning & √ dubious), גֵּבִים 1 Kings 6:9; but LagArmen. Stud. § 499, M i. 212; BN 155 reads גֻּבְּדִים (Persian  , Armenian γμβεθ) vaulted roofs.
Strong's beam, ditch, pit From guwb; a log (as cut out); also well or cistern (as dug) -- beam, ditch, pit. see HEBREW guwb |
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