gezer · Gezer

What it means

gezer (גֶּזֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Gezer”.

A Canaanite city between the hill country and the coast.

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.

The place

• Gezer

  Today: Tel Gezer ruins, Israel

  A city on the plain, about 19 miles (30 km) northwest of Jerusalem.

  Joshua defeated its king (Josh 10:33). Pharaoh took it and gave it to his daughter, Solomon's wife, and Solomon fortified it (1 Kgs 9:16-17).

  Joshua 10:331 Kings 9:151 Kings 9:16

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Joshua×5
• Judges×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×3
• 1 Chronicles×4

• Joshua 10:33

  Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish, and Joshua struck him and his people until he had left him no survivor.

• Joshua 12:12

  the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

• Joshua 16:3

  and it went down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of Lower Beth-horon and as far as Gezer, and its ends were at the sea.

• Joshua 16:10

  But they did not dispossess the Canaanite who lived in Gezer; so the Canaanite has lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and became forced laborers.

• Joshua 21:21

  And they gave them Shechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer with its pasturelands,

• Judges 1:29

  Ephraim did not dispossess the Canaanite who lived in Gezer; so the Canaanite lived among them in Gezer.

• 2 Samuel 5:25

  David did so, as YHWH had commanded him, and he struck the Philistines from Geba as far as Gezer.

• 1 Kings 9:15

  And this is the matter of the forced labor that King Solomon raised to build the house of YHWH and his house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer.

• 1 Kings 9:16

  Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Canaanite who lived in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, the wife of Solomon.

• 1 Kings 9:17

  And Solomon built Gezer and Lower Beth-horon,

• 1 Chronicles 6:67

  And they gave them the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,

• 1 Chronicles 7:28

  And their possession and their dwelling places: Bethel and its towns; and to the east, Naaran; and to the west, Gezer and its towns; and Shechem and its towns, as far as Ayyah and its towns;

• 1 Chronicles 14:16

  David did as Elohim had commanded him, and they struck the camp of the Philistines from Gibeon as far as Gezer.

• 1 Chronicles 20:4

  And it happened after this that war arose at Gezer with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck Sippai, of the descendants of the Rephaim; and they were subdued.

And 1 more times.