Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1498
גָּזֵל
gazelgaw-zale'
robbery
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gâzêl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1498is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1498
robbery, or (concretely) plunder
The King James renders it: robbery, thing taken away by violence.
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
gazel is rendered "robbery". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 6:2“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor
Leviticus 6:2בְגָזֵ֔ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- robbery2
- and in robbery1
- and robbery of1
- in a robbery1
- robbery 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 6, 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
- בְגָזֵ֔ל1
- גֵּ֣זֶל1
- גָזֵ֖ל1
- גָּזֵ֑ל1
- וּבְגָזֵ֪ל1
- וְגֵ֨זֶל1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
Leviticus
one use
“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor
- בְגָזֵ֔לvegazelpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in a robbery
Psalms
one use
Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
- וּבְגָזֵ֪לuvegazelconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and in robbery
Ecclesiastes
one use
If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
- וְגֵ֨זֶלvegezelconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and robbery of
Isaiah
one use
For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
- גָזֵ֖לgazelnoun · masculine singulartagged: robbery
Ezekiel
two uses
As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what was wrong among his people.
- גֵּ֣זֶלgezelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: robbery of
The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
- גָּזֵ֑לgazelnoun · masculine singulartagged: robbery
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.