giach · burst out

What it means

giach (גִּיחַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “burst out”.

Break forth suddenly, like water that bursts out.

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. Break forth violently; bring from the womb; strain in labour.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• are the one who drew me out ×1
• burst out ×1
• bursts out ×1
• push ×1
• when it burst forth ×1
• you burst forth ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Judges×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Micah×1

• Judges 20:33

  And all the men of Israel rose up from their place and drew up at Baal-tamar, and the ambush of Israel burst out from its place, from the clearing of Geba.

• Job 38:8

  And who shut in the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out from the womb,

• Job 40:23

  Look, the river oppresses, and it does not hurry; it is confident though the Jordan bursts out to its mouth.

• Psalms 22:9

  For you are the one who drew me out of the belly, who made me trust at the breasts of my mother.

• Ezekiel 32:2

  “Son of man, raise a dirge over Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, ‘A young lion of the nations you were compared to, and you are like the sea monster in the seas; and you burst forth in your rivers, and muddied the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.

• Micah 4:10

  Writhe and push, daughter of Zion, like a woman giving birth, for now you will go out from the city and dwell in the field, and you will come as far as Babylon; there you will be rescued, there YHWH will redeem you from the hand of your enemies.