Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1377
גְּבִירָה
gebirahgheb-ee-raw'
queen
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gᵉbîyrâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1377is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1377
a mistress
The King James renders it: queen.
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
gebirah is rendered "queen". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 11:19There Hadad found such great favor in the sight of Pharaoh that he gave to him in marriage the sister of Queen Tahpenes, his own wife.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
There Hadad found such great favor in the sight of Pharaoh that he gave to him in marriage the sister of Queen Tahpenes, his own wife.
1 Kings 11:19הַגְּבִירָֽה׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in 1 Kings.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- from queen-mother2
- and the queen-mother1
- and to the queen-mother1
- the queen1
- the queen-mother1
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.
All 6, 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
- הַגְּבִירָֽה׃2
- מִגְּבִירָ֔ה2
- וְהַגְּבִירָ֨ה1
- וְלַגְּבִירָ֖ה1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · feminine singular2HR/Ncfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2HTd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HC/Rd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Td/Ncfsa
1 Kings
two uses
There Hadad found such great favor in the sight of Pharaoh that he gave to him in marriage the sister of Queen Tahpenes, his own wife.
- הַגְּבִירָֽה׃hagevirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the queen
He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
- מִגְּבִירָ֔הmigevirahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: from queen-mother
2 Kings
one use
Jehu met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?” “We are relatives of Ahaziah,” they answered, “and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and of the queen mother.”
- הַגְּבִירָֽה׃hagevirahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the queen-mother
2 Chronicles
one use
King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
- מִגְּבִירָ֔הmigevirahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: from queen-mother
Jeremiah
two uses
Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”
- וְלַגְּבִירָ֖הvelagevirahconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: and to the queen-mother
(This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had been exiled from Jerusalem.)
- וְהַגְּבִירָ֨הvehagevirahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the queen-mother
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.