גֶּבֶרgeber
properly, a valiant man or warrior; generally, a person simply
Pronunciation: gheh'-ber · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1397
Meanings
man as strong, distinguished from women, children, and non-combatants whom he is to defend, chiefly poetic (Deuteronomy 22:5; Job 3:3; Psalms 18:26; 2 Samuel 22:26; Jeremiah 41:16)
Same root
- גָּבַרgâbar · H1396to be strong; by implication, to prevail, act insolently
- בֶּן־גֶּבֶרBen-Geber · H1127Ben-Geber, an Israelite
- גִּבּוֹרgibbôwr · H1368powerful; by implication, warrior, tyrant
- גֶּבֶרGeber · H1398Geber, the name of two Israelites
- גְּבַרgᵉbar · H1399a person
- גַּבְרִיאֵלGabrîyʼêl · H1403Gabriel, an archangel
- עֶצְיוֹן גֶּבֶרʻEtsyôwn Geber · H6100Etsjon-Geber, a place on the Red Sea
Where it appears
Appears 65 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 10:11 Never! Only the men may go and worship the Lord, since that is what you requested.” And Pharaoh threw them out of the palace.
- Exodus 12:37 That night the people of Israel left Rameses and started for Succoth. There were about 600,000 men, plus all the women and children.
- Numbers 24:3 and this is the message he delivered: “This is the message of Balaam son of Beor, the message of the man whose eyes see clearly,
- Numbers 24:15 This is the message Balaam delivered: “This is the message of Balaam son of Beor, the message of the man whose eyes see clearly,
- Deuteronomy 22:5 “A woman must not put on men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing. Anyone who does this is detestable in the sight of the Lord your God.
- Joshua 7:14 “In the morning you must present yourselves by tribes, and the Lord will point out the tribe to which the guilty man belongs. That tribe must come forward with its clans, and the Lord will point out the guilty clan. That clan will then come forward, and the Lord will point out the guilty family. Finally, each member of the guilty family must come forward one by one.
See every passage
- Exodus 10:11, 12:37
- Numbers 24:3, 24:15
- Deuteronomy 22:5
- Joshua 7:14, 7:17, 7:18
- Judges 5:30
- 2 Samuel 23:1
- 1 Chronicles 23:3, 24:4, 26:12
- Job 3:3, 3:23, 4:17, 10:5, 14:10, 14:14, 16:21, 22:2, 33:17, 33:29, 34:7, 34:9, 34:34, 38:3, 40:7
- Psalms 34:8, 37:23, 40:4, 52:7, 88:4, 89:48, 94:12, 127:5, 128:4
- Proverbs 6:34, 20:24, 24:5, 28:3, 28:21, 29:5, 30:1, 30:19
- Isaiah 22:17
- Jeremiah 17:5, 17:7, 22:30, 23:9, 30:6, 31:22, 41:16, 43:6, 44:20
- Lamentations 3:1, 3:27, 3:35, 3:39
- Daniel 8:15
- Joel 2:8
- Micah 2:2
- Habakkuk 2:5
- Zechariah 13:7
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).