Strong's Lexicon

H1404

H1404 — גְּבֶרֶת

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewgberethnoun femOccurrences: 9TWOT: 310e

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H1404
Word:גְּבֶרֶת
Part of Speech:noun fem
Etymology:feminine of H1376
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:9
Transliteration:gbereth
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:gheb-eh'-reth
Meaning:1. mistress
KJV Renderings:lady, mistress.

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גְּבֶ֫רֶת noun 1. lady, queen, Isa 47:5; Isa 47:7 .

2. mistress of servants, suffix גְּבִרְתִּי Gen 16:8 גְּבִרְתֵךְ Gen 16:9 גְּבִרְתָּהּ Gen 16:4; 2Kgs 5:3; Ps 123:2; Prov 30:23 (plural גברת women MI16 ).


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

גברת (g’veh’-reth)

2 Kings 5:3

KJV: And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.with: Heb. beforerecover: Heb. gather in
EHCC: she said unto her mistress,

Psalms 123:2

KJV: Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
EHCC: unto the hand of her mistress;

Proverbs 30:28

KJV: The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings’ palaces.
EHCC: that is heir to her mistress.

Proverbs 47:5

EHCC: The kingdoms.

Proverbs 7:1

KJV: My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
EHCC: shall ty iad tor ever:

Exodus 30:3

KJV: And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.top: Heb. roofsides: Heb. walls
EHCC: with pure gold, the top thereof, (marg. roof)

Exodus 87:26

EHCC: the too ore and the sides escor

Deuteronomy 22:8

KJV: When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
EHCC: make a battlement for thy roof,

Joshua 2:6

KJV: But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
EHCC: brought them up fo the roof of the house,

Judges 9:51

KJV: But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.
EHCC: gat them up to the top of the tower.

Judges 16:27

KJV: Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
EHCC: upon the roof about ‘three thousand

1 Samuel 9:25

KJV: And when they were come down from the high place into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.
EHCC: Saul upon the top of the house.

2 Samuel 11:2

KJV: And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
EHCC: walked upon the roof of the king’s house:

2 Samuel 16:22

KJV: So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
EHCC: tent upon the fop of the house;

2 Samuel 19:24

KJV: And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
EHCC: the watchman went up to the roof over the

2 Kings 19:95

EHCC: 0he grass on the house tops, |

2 Kings 23:12

KJV: And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.brake…: or, ran from thence
EHCC: the altars that (were) on the top of theupper

Nehemiah 8:16

KJV: So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
EHCC: every one upon the roof of his house, |

Psalms 102:7

KJV: I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
EHCC: (8).as a sparrow alone upon the hoese top.

Psalms 129:6

KJV: Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:
EHCC: as the grass (upon) the Kouta,

Proverbs 21:9

KJV: It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.a brawling…: Heb. a woman of contentionsa wide…: Heb. an house of society
EHCC: better to dwell in a corner of the hunsstop,

Proverbs 25:24

KJV: It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.
EHCC: to dweil in the corner of the Aousetop,

Isaiah 15:3

KJV: In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.weeping…: Heb. descending into weeping, or, coming down with weeping
EHCC: 0n the tops of their houses,

Isaiah 22:1

KJV: The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
EHCC: wholly gone up fo the housetops?

Isaiah 37:27

KJV: Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.of small…: Heb. short of hand
EHCC: the grass on the housetope, .

Jeremiah 19:13

KJV: And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
EHCC: upon whose roofs they bave burned (lit

Jeremiah 32:29

KJV: And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.
EHCC: upon whose roofs they have offered

Jeremiah 48:38

KJV: There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the Lord.
EHCC: upon all the housetops of Moab,

Ezekiel 40:13

KJV: He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door.
EHCC: from the roof of (one) little chamber ₪
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