גָּזַל
gâzal · gaw-zal'
to pluck off; specifically to flay, strip or rob
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to pluck off; specifically to flay, strip or rob
- to pluck off
- specifically, to flay, strip or rob
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: catch, consume, exercise (robbery), pluck (off), rob, spoil, take away (by force, violence), tear.
Letters
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to carry, to lift up › to cut, to sustain › authority, the one who leads
To carry, to lift up that works to cut, to sustain of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of גָּזַל above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
30 occurrences · 30 OT · 0 NT · 28 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and plucked2 · 7%
- hath spoiled2 · 7%
- had violently taken away1 · 4%
- thou wouldest take by force1 · 4%
- which he took violently away1 · 4%
- neither rob1 · 4%
- and spoiled1 · 4%
- shall be violently taken away1 · 4%
- and they robbed1 · 4%
- whom they caught1 · 4%
- because he hath violently taken away1 · 4%
- they violently take away1 · 4%
- they pluck1 · 4%
- consume1 · 4%
- from him that spoileth1 · 4%
- that which i took not away1 · 4%
- is taken away1 · 4%
- rob1 · 4%
- whoso robbeth1 · 4%
- and to take away1 · 4%
- him that is spoiled1 · 4%
- the spoiled1 · 4%
- neither hath spoiled1 · 4%
- spoiled1 · 4%
- and exercised1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.