גֵּרָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1617

Gera — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

Gera tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֵּרָא: n.pr.m. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.pr.m. (Ph. גרא) son of Benjamin Gn 46:21 (lacking Nu 26:38–40); son of Belaʿ, & grandson of Benj., according to 1 Ch 8:3, 5 cf. v 7; designation of a Benjamite family or clan; hence Ehud called בֶּן־גֵּרָא Ju 3:15, & so Shimei, 2 S 16:5; 19:17, 19 1 K 2:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Gera (5); Gera (4).

In the verses

1 Chronicles 8:5 · tree →

וְגֵרָ֥א וּשְׁפוּפָ֖ן וְחוּרָֽם׃

Word for word: and Gera and Shephuphan and Huram

JPS 1917: and Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.

1 Chronicles 8:3 · tree →

וַיִּהְי֥וּ בָנִ֖ים לְבָ֑לַע אַדָּ֥ר וְגֵרָ֖א וַאֲבִיהֽוּד׃

Word for word: and they.belonged sons to Bela Addar and Gera and Abihud

JPS 1917: And Bela had sons, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud;

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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