גֶּבֶא
geve · pool, marsh
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1360 · appears 2 times in the Bible
What is the Strong number?
Strong’s number identifies this word: use it to find the same word in other study tools.What it means
geve (גֶּבֶא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pool, marsh”.
A pool, a place where water gathers; a marsh.
How to say it
ge·ve
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
- A place where water gathers: a cistern or a swamp.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- marshes ×1
- pool ×1
Where it appears
- Isaiah 30:14
And he will break it as one breaks a potters’ jar, crushed without sparing, and there will not be found among its fragments a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to scoop water from the pool.”
- Ezekiel 47:11
Its swamps and its marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to salt.