Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1356
גֵּב
gebgabe
cistern; beam
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gêb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1356is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1356
a log (as cut out); also well or cistern (as dug)
The King James renders it: beam, ditch, pit.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
geb is rendered "cistern; beam". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "cistern".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 6:9So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
1 Kings 6:9גֵּבִ֔ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: cistern, and beam.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| cisternStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | Where1 Kings 6:9So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar. |
| beamStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- ditches2
- beams1
- cisterns1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| גֵּב | geb | locust | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- גֵּבִ֔ים1
- גֵּבִ֞ים1
- גֵּבִ֥ים׀1
- גֵּבִֽים׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural4HNcmpa
1 Kings
one use
So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
- גֵּבִ֔יםgevimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: beams
2 Kings
two uses
and he said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Dig this valley full of ditches.’
- גֵּבִ֥ים׀gevimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: ditches
- גֵּבִֽים׃gevimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: ditches
Jeremiah
one use
The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
- גֵּבִ֞יםgevimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: cisterns
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.