gever · man

What it means

gever (גֶּבֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “man”.

A grown man in his strength.

How to say it

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. Literally "the strong one": a grown male in his prime.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Man: the grown male, seen in his strength. It is of the root גָּבַר (be strong), the same as גִּבּוֹר (mighty man, H1368) and גְּבוּרָה (might, H1369). It is above all a word of poetry.

• “Happy {is} the man” who trusts YHWH Psalms 34:8Psalms 40:4Psalms 94:12
• Man facing death Psalms 89:48Job 14:14
• “Gird up… your loins like a man” Job 38:3
• A count “man by man” Joshua 7:17
• Men over against women Jeremiah 44:20

How we translate it

“Man” 58 times and “men” 7. English “man” covers it as it covers אִישׁ; pointing at the word shows which Hebrew word stands in the verse. In Joshua 7:17 לַגְּבָרִים is “man by man”.

How it is translated

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

• man ×58
• men ×7

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×3
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×3
• Job×15
• Psalms×9
• Proverbs×8
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×9
• Lamentations×4
• Daniel×1
• Joel×1
• Micah×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 10:11

  Not so! Go, you men, and serve YHWH, for that is what you are asking for.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

• Exodus 12:37

  The sons of Israel set out from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides the little ones.

• Numbers 24:3

  And he took up his poem and said, “The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, and the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,

• Numbers 24:15

  And he took up his poem and said, “The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, and the oracle of the man whose eye is opened,

• Deuteronomy 22:5

  A man’s article shall not be on a woman, and a man shall not put on a woman’s garment, for an abomination to YHWH your Elohim is everyone who does these things.

• Joshua 7:14

  In the morning you shall come near by your tribes, and it shall be that the tribe that YHWH takes shall come near by families, and the family that YHWH takes shall come near by households, and the household that YHWH takes shall come near man by man.

• Joshua 7:17

  He had the family of Judah come near, and he took the family of the Zerahite; and he had the family of the Zerahite come near man by man, and Zabdi was taken.

• Joshua 7:18

  He had his household come near man by man, and Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

• Judges 5:30

  ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil? A girl, two girls for each head of a man; spoil of dyed cloth for Sisera, spoil of dyed cloth embroidered; dyed cloth, two embroideries, for the necks of the spoil.’

• 2 Samuel 23:1

  These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, and the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the Elohim of Jacob, and the pleasant one in the psalms of Israel:

• 1 Chronicles 23:3

  The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward, and their number head by head, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

• 1 Chronicles 24:4

  The sons of Eleazar were found more numerous in heads of men than the sons of Ithamar, and they divided them thus: of the sons of Eleazar, sixteen heads of fathers’ houses; and of the sons of Ithamar, by their fathers’ houses, eight.

• 1 Chronicles 26:12

  These divisions of the gatekeepers, by the heads of the men, had charges just as their brothers, to minister in the house of YHWH.

• Job 3:3

  “Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’

• Job 3:23

  to the man whose way is hidden, and around whom Eloah has put a hedge?

• Job 4:17

  ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than Eloah? Can a man be purer than his Maker?

• Job 10:5

  Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the days of a man,

• Job 14:10

  But a man dies and is left without strength; a human being expires, and where is he?

• Job 14:14

  If a man dies, will he live? All the days of my service I would wait, until my relief comes.

• Job 16:21

  that he may argue for a man with Eloah, as a son of man for his companion.

• Job 22:2

  “Can a man be of profit to El? Rather, the prudent profits himself.

• Job 33:17

  to turn aside a human being from his deed, and pride from a man he covers;

• Job 33:29

  Look, all these things El does twice, three times with a man,

• Job 34:7

  What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

• Job 34:9

  For he has said, ‘It does not profit a man to take pleasure in Elohim.’

• Job 34:34

  Men of heart will say to me, and the wise man who hears me:

• Job 38:3

  Gird up, please, your loins like a man; I will ask you, and you make known to me.

• Job 40:7

  “Gird up, please, your loins like a man; I will ask you, and you make known to me.

• Psalms 34:8

  Taste and see that YHWH is good; happy is the man who takes refuge in him.

• Psalms 37:23

  By YHWH the steps of a man are made firm, and in his way he delights.

• Psalms 40:4

  Happy is the man who has made YHWH his trust, and has not turned to the arrogant or to those who go astray after a lie.

• Psalms 52:7

  “Look at the man who would not make Elohim his stronghold, and trusted in the abundance of his riches; he grew strong in his calamity.”

• Psalms 88:4

  I am counted with those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength,

• Psalms 89:48

  What man will live and not see death, who can make his soul escape from the hand of Sheol? Selah.

• Psalms 94:12

  Happy is the man whom you correct, Yah, and from your instruction you teach him,

• Psalms 127:5

  Happy is the man who has filled his quiver with them; they will not be put to shame when they speak with enemies in the gate.

• Psalms 128:4

  Look, thus will be blessed the man who fears YHWH.

• Proverbs 6:34

  For jealousy is the fury of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

• Proverbs 20:24

  From YHWH are the steps of a man; and a human being, how can he understand his way?

• Proverbs 24:5

  A wise man is strong, and a man of knowledge increases strength.

And 25 more times.