גֵּרָה
gêrâh · gay-raw'
a gerah or small weight (and coin)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H1641 (גָּרַר) (as in H1625 (גֵּרָה)); properly, (like H1620 (גַּרְגַּר)) a kernel (round as if scraped), i.e.
a gerah or small weight (and coin)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: gerah.
Letters
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to carry, to lift up › the head, the highest › to reveal, behold
To carry, to lift up of the head, the highest that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of גֵּרָה 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
5 occurrences · 5 OT · 0 NT · 3 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- gerahs5 · 100%
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.