Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1492
גָּזַּה
gazzahgaz-zaw'
fleece
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gâzzah
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1492is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1492
a fleece
The King James renders it: fleece.
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
gazzah is rendered "fleece". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Seven of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 6:37then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”
Judges 6:37גִּזַּ֥ת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's seven uses are in Judges.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the fleece5
- by the fleece1
- fleece of1
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 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- הַגִּזָּה֙2
- בַּגִּזָּ֔ה1
- גִּזַּ֥ת1
- הַגִּזָּ֜ה1
- הַגִּזָּ֑ה1
- הַגִּזָּ֔ה1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular5HTd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa
Judges
seven uses
then behold, I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”
- גִּזַּ֥תgizatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: fleece of
- הַגִּזָּ֜הhagizahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the fleece
And that is what happened. When Gideon arose the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew—a bowlful of water.
- הַגִּזָּ֑הhagizahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the fleece
- הַגִּזָּ֔הhagizahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the fleece
Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time let it be dry, and the ground covered with dew.”
- בַּגִּזָּ֔הbagizahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the fleece
- הַגִּזָּה֙hagizahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the fleece
And that night God did so. Only the fleece was dry, and dew covered the ground.
- הַגִּזָּה֙hagizahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the fleece
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.