גֵּז
gez · fleece, mown grass
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1488 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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gez (גֵּז) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fleece, mown grass”.
The wool shorn from sheep; also mown grass.
How to say it
gez
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
- Cutting of wool; what is clipped.
- Cutting of grass; freshly cut field.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- fleece ×1
- mowings ×1
- mown field ×1
- shearing ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 18:4
The firstfruits of your grain, of your new wine, and of your oil, and the firstfruits of the shearing of your flock, you shall give to him.
- Job 31:20
if his loins did not bless me, and he was not warmed with the fleece of my lambs,
- Psalms 72:6
May he come down like rain on the mown field, like downpours that water the earth.
- Amos 7:1
Thus Adonai YHWH showed me: and look, he was forming locusts at the beginning of the sprouting of the late grass; and look, it was the late grass after the mowings of the king.