Lexical Summary geb: a pit, trench, ditch Original Word: גֵּבTransliteration: geb Phonetic Spelling: (gabe) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a pit, trench, ditch Meaning: a log, well, cistern Strong's Concordance beam, ditch, pit From guwb; a log (as cut out); also well or cistern (as dug) -- beam, ditch, pit. see HEBREW guwb Brown-Driver-Briggs H1356. geb 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 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 וְגֵבִים כְּרָמִים לָהֶם וַיִּתֵּן and gave to them vineyards and cisterns; another view in Th; compare further יגב גוב,. — 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. |
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