גְּבֶרֶת
geveret · mistress
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1404 · appears 9 times in the Bible
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geveret (גְּבֶרֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mistress”.
The lady who owns a female slave; also a queen.
How to say it
ge·ve·ret
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
- The woman over a servant girl.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- mistress ×7
- lady ×2
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 16:4
He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress became of little account in her eyes.
- Genesis 16:8
He said, “Hagar, slave woman of Sarai, where from have you come, and where are you going?” She said, “From the presence of Sarai my mistress I am fleeing.”
- Genesis 16:9
The angel of YHWH said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hand.”
- 2 Kings 5:3
She said to her mistress, “If only my master were before the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his leprosy.”
- Psalms 123:2
Look, as the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their masters, as the eyes of a slave woman to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to YHWH our Elohim, until he shows us favor.
- Proverbs 30:23
under a hated woman when she is married, and a maidservant when she becomes heir to her mistress.
- Isaiah 24:2
And it will be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the female slave, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the one who owes him.
- Isaiah 47:5
“Sit in silence, and go into the darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for they will not again call you lady of kingdoms.
- Isaiah 47:7
And you said, ‘Forever I will be lady,’ to the point of not laying these things on your heart; you did not remember its end.