גֶּזֶר
Gezer · gheh'-zer
Gezer, a place in Palestine
Lexicon
Derivation: the same as H1506 (גֶּזֶר);
Gezer, a place in Palestine
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Gazer, Gezer.
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
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to carry, to lift up › to cut, to sustain › the head, the highest
To carry, to lift up that works to cut, to sustain of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of גֶּזֶר 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
15 occurrences · 15 OT · 0 NT · 12 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- in gezer3 · 20%
- gezer3 · 20%
- of gezer2 · 13%
- and gezer2 · 13%
- and to gezer1 · 7%
- to gazer1 · 7%
- they gave also gezer1 · 7%
- even to gazer1 · 7%
- at gezer1 · 7%
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.