גֶּשֶׁם
geshem · body
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H1655 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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geshem (גֶּשֶׁם) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “body”.
(Aramaic).
How to say it
ge·shem
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
- The body of a person or an animal, its flesh and limbs (Aramaic).
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- body ×3
- bodies ×2
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Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Daniel 3:27
And the satraps, the prefects, and the governors and the advisers of the king were gathered and were seeing these men, that the fire had not had power over their bodies, and the hair of their head was not singed, and their cloaks had not changed, and the smell of fire had not passed on them.
- Daniel 3:28
Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, “Blessed be their Elah, the Elah of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who sent his angel and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and they changed the king’s word and gave their bodies so that they would not serve and not bow down to any god except their Elah.
- Daniel 4:33
At that very moment the word was fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and from men he was driven away, and grass like oxen he ate, and with the dew of the heavens his body was drenched, until his hair grew like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.
- Daniel 5:21
And from the sons of men he was driven away, and his heart was made like that of the animals, and with the wild donkeys was his dwelling; grass like oxen he was made to eat, and with the dew of the heavens his body was drenched, until he knew that Elah Illaya rules over the kingdom of men, and whomever he wishes he sets up over it.
- Daniel 7:11
I was looking then because of the sound of the great words that the horn was speaking; I was looking until the beast was killed, and its body destroyed and given to the burning of fire.