גֵּו
gev · midst, back
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1460 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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gev (גֵּו) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “midst, back”.
The middle of something; the back. "From the midst": from the community.
How to say it
gev
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
- Midst: "from the midst".
- The back of the body, where the blows of punishment fell.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- back ×6
- midst ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 30:5
From the midst they are driven out; they shout at them as at a thief.
- Proverbs 10:13
On the lips of the discerning one wisdom is found, but the rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.
- Proverbs 19:29
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and blows for the back of the senseless.
- Proverbs 26:3
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of the senseless.
- Isaiah 38:17
Look, for peace I had bitterness, bitterness; but you have loved my soul out of the pit of nothingness, for you have cast behind your back all my sins.
- Isaiah 50:6
My back I gave to those who struck, and my cheeks to those who pulled out the beard; my face I did not hide from humiliations and spit.
- Isaiah 51:23
And I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who said to your soul, ‘Bow down, and we will pass over’; and you made your back like the ground and like the street for those who passed over.”