gazaz · shear

What it means

gazaz (גָּזַז) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “shear”.

Cut the wool of sheep; also shave.

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. To clip the wool from flocks.
2. To cut one's hair; or be destroyed.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• shear ×4
• shearers ×3
• sheepshearers ×3
• Cut off ×2
• shearing ×2
• shaved ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Samuel×2
• Job×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Micah×1
• Nahum×1

• Genesis 31:19

  Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the teraphim that belonged to her father.

• Genesis 38:12

  Many days passed, and the daughter of Shua, Judah’s wife, died; and when Judah was comforted, he went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and Hirah his friend the Adullamite.

• Genesis 38:13

  Tamar was told, saying, “Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep.”

• Deuteronomy 15:19

  Every firstborn male that is born in your herd and in your flock you shall consecrate to YHWH your Elohim; you shall not work with the firstborn of your ox, and you shall not shear the firstborn of your flock.

• 1 Samuel 25:2

  There was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; the man was very rich and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

• 1 Samuel 25:4

  David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

• 1 Samuel 25:7

  Now I have heard that you have shearers. Now, the shepherds who are yours were with us; we did not wrong them, and nothing of theirs went missing all the days they were in Carmel.

• 1 Samuel 25:11

  Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have butchered for my shearers and give it to men who I do not know where they are from?”

• 2 Samuel 13:23

  After two full years Absalom had sheepshearers at Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.

• 2 Samuel 13:24

  Absalom came to the king and said, “Look, your servant has sheepshearers; please let the king and his servants go with your servant.”

• Job 1:20

  Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell to the ground and bowed down.

• Isaiah 53:7

  He was mistreated, and he humbled himself, and he did not open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a ewe that before her shearers is silent, and he did not open his mouth.

• Jeremiah 7:29

  Cut off your hair and throw it away, and raise on the bare heights a lament, for YHWH has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

• Micah 1:16

  Shave yourself bald and shear yourself for the children of your delight; make wide your baldness like the eagle, for they have gone into exile from you.

• Nahum 1:12

  Thus says YHWH: “Though they are intact and likewise many, even so they will be cut off and pass away. And though I have afflicted you, I will not afflict you anymore.