Strong's Lexicon

H1460

H1460 — גֵּו

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

Hebrewgevnoun mascOccurrences: 7TWOT: 326b

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H1460
Word:	גֵּו
Part of Speech:	noun masc
Etymology:	from H1342 (corresponding to H1354)
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	7
Transliteration:	gev
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	gave
Meaning:	1. the back 2. by analogy, the middle
KJV Renderings:	+ among, back, body.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB1547

I. גֵּו noun [masculine] back — גֵּו absolute unused, construct Prov 10:13 + 2 t., suffix גֵּוִי Isa 50:6, גֵּוְךָ Isa 38:17, גֵּוֵךְ Isa 51:23 — back, as beaten, lashed Prov 10:13; Prov 19:29; Prov 26:3 compare Isa 50:6 in phrase ׳ הִשְׁלִיךְ אַחֲרֵי ג (as גַּו) Isa 38:17, of Yahweh's casting sins of penitent behind his back, putting them out of mind; as trodden upon Isa 51:23, figurative of extreme humiliation.

BDB1548

II. גֵּו noun [masculine] midst, Aramaism (compare Aramaic גַּוָּא, גֵּו middle, Late Hebrew גֵּו midst, interior; [untranscribed source text 832] id., belly, Arabic [untranscribed source text 833] midst) Job 30:5 מִןגֵּֿו יְגֹרָ֑שׁוּ from the midst (of men) they are driven; Rosenm and others compare Cicero^{Off. iii. 8}: e medio pelluntur.

Other Resources

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

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

גיח;גוח (gee’gh; goo’gh)

Job 28:8

KJV: The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.

EHCC: when it brake forth, (as if) it had issued

Micah 4:10

KJV: Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

EHCC: and labour to bring forth, לו daughter

Job 40:23

KJV: Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.he drinketh up: Heb. he oppresseth

EHCC: he trusteth that he can draw קא

Ezekiel 32:2

KJV: Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.whale: or, dragon

EHCC: and thou camest forth with thy riun,

Psalms 22:9

KJV: But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.didst…: or, kept me in safety

EHCC: (10). he that took me out

Judges 20:83

EHCC: came forth out of their places,