Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1472
גְּוִיָּה
geviahghev-ee-yaw'
body
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gᵉvîyâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1472is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1472
a body, whether alive or dead
The King James renders it: (dead) body, carcase, corpse.
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
geviah is rendered "body". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Three of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 47:18When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
Genesis 47:18גְּוִיָּתֵ֖נוּ
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
- bodies their2
- and body his1
- bodies our1
- body our1
- corpse his1
- corpse of1
- corpses1
- corpses of1
- from carcass of1
- in carcass of1
- over bodi their1
- to the bodi1
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 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 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
- בִּגְוִיַּ֥ת1
- בִּגְוִיָּתָֽם׃1
- גְוִיּ֑וֹת1
- גְּוִיַּ֣ת1
- גְּוִיֹּ֣ת1
- גְּוִיָּתוֹ֙1
- גְּוִיֹּתֵיהֶֽם׃1
- גְּוִיֹתֵיהֶֽנָה׃1
- גְּ֠וִיֹּתֵינוּ1
- גְּוִיָּתֵ֖נוּ1
- וּגְוִיָּת֣וֹ1
- לַגְּוִיָּ֔ה1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncfsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
- noun · feminine plural1HNcfpa
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HNcfpc/Sp1bp
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine plural1HNcfpc/Sp3fp
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcfpc/Sp3mp
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine plural1HNcfsc/Sp1bp
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HNcfsc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncfsc/Sp3mp
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa
Genesis
one use
When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
- גְּוִיָּתֵ֖נוּgeviyatenunoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: body our
Judges
two uses
When Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey.
- בִּגְוִיַּ֥תbigviyatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in carcass of
So he scooped some honey into his hands and ate it as he went along. And when he returned to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.
- מִגְּוִיַּ֥תmigeviyatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from carcass of
1 Samuel
three uses
They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
- גְּוִיָּתוֹ֙geviyatonoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: corpse his
all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.
- גְּוִיַּ֣תgeviyatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: corpse of
- גְּוִיֹּ֣תgeviyotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: corpses of
Nehemiah
one use
Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.
- גְּ֠וִיֹּתֵינוּgeviyoteinunoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: bodies our
Psalms
one use
He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.
- גְוִיּ֑וֹתgeviyotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: corpses
Ezekiel
two uses
Such were their faces. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching the wings of the creature on either side, and two wings covering its body.
- גְּוִיֹתֵיהֶֽנָה׃geviyoteihenahnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: bodies their
And under the expanse, their wings stretched out toward one another. Each one also had two wings covering its body.
- גְּוִיֹּתֵיהֶֽם׃geviyoteihemnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: bodies their
Daniel
one use
His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.
- וּגְוִיָּת֣וֹugeviyatoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and body his
Nahum
two uses
Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—
- לַגְּוִיָּ֔הlageviyahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the bodi
- בִּגְוִיָּתָֽם׃bigviyatampreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: over bodi their
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.