Strong's Lexicon

H1655

H1655 — גֶּשֶׁם

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

Aramaicgeshemnoun mascOccurrences: 6

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H1655
Word:	גֶּשֶׁם
Part of Speech:	noun masc
Etymology:	(Aramaic) apparently the same as H1653
Language:	Aramaic
Occurrences:	6
Transliteration:	geshem
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	gheh'-shem
Meaning:	1. the body {used in a peculiar sense, probably for the figurative idea of a hard rain.}
KJV Renderings:	body.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB9421

[גְּשֵׁם] noun masculine^{Dan 4:30} body (see √ גשׁם in Biblical Hebrew; ᵑ7 ^j גּוּשְׁמָא, גִּשְׁמָא (D^{WB 83} ), Syriac [untranscribed source text 5966], body, self); — body of man, suffix גִּשְׁמֵהּ Dan 4:30; Dan 5:21, so plural suffix גַּשְׁמַיהוֺן (K^{§ 15 a}) Dan 3:27. 28, both Kt , Qr singular גֶּשְׁמֵהוֺן (K^{§ 54, 3} b)).

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

גשם (geh’-shem)

Daniel 3:27

KJV: And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.

EHCC: upon whose bodies the fire had no er,

Daniel 4:38

EHCC: (30) & 5:21. is body was wet with the dew

Daniel 7:11

KJV: I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.

EHCC: and Ais body destroyed, and given