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Hebrew noun (Aramaic, masculine) · H1400

גְּבַר

gebargheb-ar'

man

21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: gᵉbar

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1400is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 12
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1400

{a person}

The King James renders it: certain, man.

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

gebar is rendered "man". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.

  • Seventeen of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 4:21Now, therefore, issue an order for these men to stop, so that this city will not be rebuilt until I so order.
  • The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.

The first use

Now, therefore, issue an order for these men to stop, so that this city will not be rebuilt until I so order.

Ezra 4:21גֻּבְרַיָּ֣א

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Seventeen of the word's twenty-one uses are in Daniel.

The other 37 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • men the11
  • men4
  • a man2
  • and men the1
  • and to men1
  • obj. men the1
  • to men the1

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.

גְּבוּלgebulborder: boundaryUses240
גְּבוּרָהgeburahmightUses61
גְּבִיעַgebiacupUses14
גְּבוּלָהgebulahborderUses10
גְּבֶרֶתgeberethladyUses9
גְּבִירָהgebirahqueenUses6
גְּבִירgebirlordUses2
גְּבוּרָהgeburahmightUses2
גְּבַרgebargreat manUses1
גְּבִנָהgebinahcheeseUses1

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

The words it stands beside

All 21, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

12 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

  • גֻּבְרַיָּ֣א6
  • גֻּבְרַיָּ֤א3
  • גֻּבְרִ֣ין3
  • גְּבַר֙1
  • גְּבַ֜ר1
  • גֻּבְרַיָּ֔א1
  • גֻּבְרַיָּ֖א1
  • גֻבְרִ֨ין1
  • וְגֻבְרַיָּ֤א1
  • וּלְגֻבְרִ֤ין1
  • לְגֻבְרַיָּ֣א1
  • לְגֻבְרַיָּ֥א1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)11ANcmpd/Ta
  • noun · masculine plural4ANcmpa
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular2ANcbsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)2AR/Ncmpd/Ta
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1AC/Ncmpd/Ta
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural1AC/R/Ncmpa

Ezra

four uses
  • Now, therefore, issue an order for these men to stop, so that this city will not be rebuilt until I so order.

    Ezra 4:21

    • גֻּבְרַיָּ֣אguvraiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: men the
  • They also asked, “What are the names of the men who are constructing this building?”

    Ezra 5:4

    • גֻּבְרַיָּ֔אguvraiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: men the
  • We also asked for their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders for your information.

    Ezra 5:10

    • גֻּבְרַיָּ֖אguvraiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: men the
  • I hereby decree what you must do for these elders of the Jews who are rebuilding this house of God: The cost is to be paid in full to these men from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces west of the Euphrates, so that the work will not be hindered.

    Ezra 6:8

    • לְגֻבְרַיָּ֥אleguvraiya'preposition + noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: to men the

Daniel

seventeen uses
  • Arioch hastily brought Daniel before the king and said to him, “I have found a man among the exiles from Judah who will tell the king the interpretation.”

    Daniel 2:25

    • גְּבַר֙gevarnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a man
  • At this time some astrologers came forward and maliciously accused the Jews,

    Daniel 3:8

    • גֻּבְרִ֣יןguvrinnoun · masculine pluraltagged: men
  • But there are some Jews you have appointed to manage the province of Babylon—Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego—who have ignored you, O king, and have refused to serve your gods or worship the golden statue you have set up.”

    Daniel 3:12

    • גֻּבְרִ֣יןguvrinnoun · masculine pluraltagged: men
    • גֻּבְרַיָּ֣אguvraiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: men the
  • Then Nebuchadnezzar, furious with rage, summoned Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. So these men were brought before the king,

    Daniel 3:13

    • גֻּבְרַיָּ֣אguvraiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: men the
  • and he commanded some mighty men of valor in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and throw them into the blazing fiery furnace.

    Daniel 3:20

    • וּלְגֻבְרִ֤יןuleguvrinconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and to men
  • So they were tied up, wearing robes, trousers, turbans, and other clothes, and they were thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.

    Daniel 3:21

    • גֻּבְרַיָּ֣אguvraiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: men the
  • The king’s command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the fiery flames killed the men who carried up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

    Daniel 3:22

    • גֻּבְרַיָּ֣אguvraiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: men the
  • And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, firmly bound, fell into the blazing fiery furnace.

    Daniel 3:23

    • וְגֻבְרַיָּ֤אveguvraiya'conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: and men the
  • Suddenly King Nebuchadnezzar jumped up in amazement and asked his advisers, “Did we not throw three men, firmly bound, into the fire?” “Certainly, O king,” they replied.

    Daniel 3:24

    • גֻבְרִ֨יןguvrinnoun · masculine pluraltagged: men
  • “Look!” he exclaimed. “I see four men, unbound and unharmed, walking around in the fire—and the fourth looks like a son of the gods!”

    Daniel 3:25

    • גֻּבְרִ֣יןguvrinnoun · masculine pluraltagged: men
  • and when the satraps, prefects, governors, and royal advisers had gathered around, they saw that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men. Not a hair of their heads was singed, their robes were unaffected, and there was no smell of fire on them.

    Daniel 3:27

    • לְגֻבְרַיָּ֣אleguvraiya'preposition + noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: obj. men the
  • There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the days of your father he was found to have insight, intelligence, and wisdom like that of the gods. Your father, King Nebuchadnezzar, appointed him chief of the magicians, enchanters, astrologers, and diviners. Your own father, the king,

    Daniel 5:11

    • גְּבַ֜רgevarnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a man
  • Finally these men said, “We will never find any charge against this Daniel, unless we find something against him concerning the law of his God.”

    Daniel 6:5

    • גֻּבְרַיָּ֤אguvraiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: men the
  • Then these men went as a group and found Daniel petitioning and imploring his God.

    Daniel 6:11

    • גֻּבְרַיָּ֤אguvraiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: men the
  • Then the men approached the king together and said to him, “Remember, O king, that by the law of the Medes and Persians no decree or ordinance established by the king can be changed.”

    Daniel 6:15

    • גֻּבְרַיָּ֣אguvraiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: men the
  • At the command of the king, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they and their children and wives. And before they had reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.

    Daniel 6:24

    • גֻּבְרַיָּ֤אguvraiya'noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: men the

The letters

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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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