גְּזַר
gezar · cut out; diviner
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H1505 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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gezar (גְּזַר) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “cut out; diviner”.
To cut out (of a stone); also to decide (Aramaic). Those "who decide" are diviners who tell fates.
How to say it
ge·zar
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
- To separate something by cutting, like the stone cut from the mountain (Aramaic).
- Those who claim to determine fate.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- diviners ×4
- was cut out ×2
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Where it appears
- Daniel 2:27
Daniel answered before the king and said, “The mystery that the king asks, no wise men, enchanters, magicians, or diviners are able to declare to the king.
- Daniel 2:34
You were looking until a stone was cut out, not by hands, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.
- Daniel 2:45
Inasmuch as you saw that from the mountain a stone was cut out, not by hands, and it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, a great Elah has made known to the king what will be after this. And the dream is certain, and its interpretation trustworthy.”
- Daniel 4:7
Then there came in the magicians, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners; and the dream I told before them, but its interpretation they did not make known to me.
- Daniel 5:7
The king called out with strength to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the diviners. The king answered and said to the wise men of Babylon, “Any man who reads this writing and declares to me its interpretation will be clothed with purple, and a necklace of gold will be on his neck, and as third in the kingdom he will rule.”
- Daniel 5:11
There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods, and in the days of your father light and insight and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him; and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him chief of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and diviners, — your father, the king —