Hebrew verb · H1457
גָּהַר
gahargaw-har'
to bend (down)
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gâhar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1457is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1457
to prostrate oneself
The King James renders it: cast self down, stretch self.
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
gahar is rendered "to bend (down)". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 18:42So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah climbed to the summit of Carmel, bent down on the ground, and put his face between his knees.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah climbed to the summit of Carmel, bent down on the ground, and put his face between his knees.
1 Kings 18:42וַיִּגְהַ֣ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he crouched3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| גָּהָה | gahah | to cure | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- וַיִּגְהַ֣ר2
- וַיִּגְהַ֖ר1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqw3ms3Hc/Vqw3ms
1 Kings
one use
So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah climbed to the summit of Carmel, bent down on the ground, and put his face between his knees.
- וַיִּגְהַ֣רvaiyigharHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he crouched
2 Kings
two uses
Then Elisha got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eye to eye, and hand to hand. As he stretched himself out over him, the boy’s body became warm.
- וַיִּגְהַ֖רvaiyigharHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he crouched
Elisha turned away and paced back and forth across the room. Then he got on the bed and stretched himself out over the boy again, and the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.
- וַיִּגְהַ֣רvaiyigharHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he crouched
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.