גַּף

gaf · body; alone

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1610 · appears 4 times in the Bible

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What it means

gaf (גַּף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “body; alone”.

"With his body", that is, alone, with nobody else. Also the body or back (Proverbs 9:3, the heights of the city).

How to say it

gaf

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. By oneself.
  2. The summit of a place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • alone ×3
  • highest points ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Exodus 21:3

    If he comes in alone, he shall go out alone; if he has a wife, his wife shall go out with him.

  • Exodus 21:4

    If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out alone.

  • Proverbs 9:3

    She has sent out her young women; she calls from the highest points of the heights of the city:

And 1 more times.