geviya · body

What it means

geviya (גְּוִיָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “body”.

Of the living or the dead (corpse); also one's own self.

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. The physical frame of a living being.
2. The body of someone who has died, sometimes left unburied.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• bodies ×7
• body ×5
• corpses ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×3
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Daniel×1
• Nahum×2

• Genesis 47:18

  That year ended, and they came to him the second year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that the silver is spent and the herds of animals belong to my lord; nothing is left before my lord except our bodies and our land.

• Judges 14:8

  After some days he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and look, a swarm of bees was in the body of the lion, and honey.

• Judges 14:9

  He scraped it out into his palms and went on, walking and eating; and he went to his father and to his mother and gave to them, and they ate; but he did not tell them that from the body of the lion he had scraped out the honey.

• 1 Samuel 31:10

  They put his weapons in the house of the Astartes, and his body they fastened to the wall of Beth-shan.

• 1 Samuel 31:12

  all the valiant men arose and went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; they came to Jabesh and burned them there.

• Nehemiah 9:37

  And its produce increases for the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins; and over our bodies they rule, and over our livestock, according to their will; and in great distress are we.”

• Psalms 110:6

  He will judge among the nations; he will fill them with corpses; he will shatter the head over a wide land.

• Ezekiel 1:11

  And such were their faces. And their wings were spread out upward; each had two joined to those of another, and two covering their bodies.

• Ezekiel 1:23

  And under the vault their wings were straight, one toward the other; each had two covering them, and each had two covering them— their bodies.

• Daniel 10:6

  and his body was like chrysolite, and his face like the appearance of lightning, and his eyes like torches of fire, and his arms and his feet like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.

• Nahum 3:3

  horseman charging, and flame of sword, and lightning of spear, and a multitude of the pierced, and a mass of corpses, and there is no end to the bodies; they stumble over their bodies,

And 2 more times.