Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H1654
גֶּשֶׁם
Geshemgheh'-shem
Geshem
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1654is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1654
Geshem or Gashmu, an Arabian
The King James renders it: Geshem, Gashmu.
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
Geshem is rendered "Geshem". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Four of the uses stand in Nehemiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
Nehemiah 2:19וְגֶ֙שֶׁם֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's four uses are in Nehemiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and Geshem2
- and by Geshem1
- and Gashmu1
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- וְגֶ֙שֶׁם֙2
- וְגַשְׁמ֣וּ1
- וּלְגֶ֨שֶׁם1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3HC/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npm
Nehemiah
four uses
But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
- וְגֶ֙שֶׁם֙vegeshemconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Geshem
When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—
- וּלְגֶ֨שֶׁםulegeshemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and by Geshem
Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to harm me.
- וְגֶ֙שֶׁם֙vegeshemconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Geshem
that read: “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and this is why you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king,
- וְגַשְׁמ֣וּvegashmuconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Gashmu
The letters
Gematria 343· 903 mispar gadol
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.