Hebrew verb · H1494
גַּזָז
gazazgaw-zaz'
to shear
15 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gazâz
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1494is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1494
to cut off; specifically to shear aflock or shave the hair; figuratively to destroy an enemy
The King James renders it: cut off (down), poll, shave, (sheep-) shear(-er).
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
gazaz is rendered "to shear". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Four of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:19Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
Genesis 31:19לִגְזֹ֖ז
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
- shearers3
- to shear2
- and he shaved1
- and shear1
- cut off1
- for shearers my1
- shearers its1
- shearers of1
- shearing1
- they will be cut down1
- when sheared1
- you will shear1
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 15, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 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
- גֹזְזִ֖ים2
- בִּגְזֹ֥ז1
- גֹזֵ֥ז1
- גֹּֽזֲזֵ֤י1
- גֹזְזֶ֖יהָ1
- גֹֽזְזִים֙1
- גָּזִּ֤י1
- וָגֹ֔זִּי1
- וַיָּ֖גָז1
- לָגֹ֥ז1
- לִגְזֹ֖ז1
- לְגֹֽזְזָ֑י1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)3HR/Vqcc
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural3HVqrmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singular1HC/Vqv2fs
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HR/Vqrmpc/Sp1bs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVNp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqi2ms
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HVqrmpc
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqrmpc/Sp3fs
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular1HVqrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singular1HVqv2fs
Genesis
three uses
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
- לִגְזֹ֖זligzozpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to shear
After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
- גֹּֽזֲזֵ֤יgozazeiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: shearers of
When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
- לָגֹ֥זlagozpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to shear
Deuteronomy
one use
You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.
- תָגֹ֖זtagozverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will shear
1 Samuel
four uses
Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
- בִּגְזֹ֥זbigzozpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when sheared
While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.
- גֹזֵ֥זgozezverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: shearing
Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.
- גֹזְזִ֖יםgozezimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: shearers
Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”
- לְגֹֽזְזָ֑יlegozezaipreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: for shearers my
2 Samuel
two uses
Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.
- גֹֽזְזִים֙gozezimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: shearers
And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”
- גֹזְזִ֖יםgozezimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: shearers
Job
one use
Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,
- וַיָּ֖גָזvaiyagozHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he shaved
Isaiah
one use
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
- גֹזְזֶ֖יהָgozezeihaverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: shearers its
Jeremiah
one use
Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
- גָּזִּ֤יgaziverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: cut off
Micah
one use
Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.
- וָגֹ֔זִּיvagoziconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: and shear
Nahum
one use
This is what the LORD says: “Though they are allied and numerous, yet they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no longer.
- נָגֹ֖זּוּnagozuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will be cut down
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.