gizra · form, figure

What it means

gizra (גִּזְרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “form, figure”.

"Guizra": figure, the shape of the body, as if carved. Also a separate courtyard (in Ezekiel).

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 shape of the body.
2. A courtyard set apart beside the temple.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• separate area ×7
• form ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×7

• Lamentations 4:7

  Purer than snow were her Nazirites, whiter than milk; ruddier in body than pearls, like sapphire their form.

• Ezekiel 41:12

  And the building that was in front of the separate area, on the side toward the sea, seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building five cubits wide all around, and its length ninety cubits.

• Ezekiel 41:13

  And he measured the house, the length, a hundred cubits; and the separate area and the building and its walls, the length, a hundred cubits.

• Ezekiel 41:14

  And the width of the front of the house and of the separate area toward the east, a hundred cubits.

• Ezekiel 41:15

  And he measured the length of the building in front of the separate area that was at its back, and its terraces on this side and on that side, a hundred cubits; and the inner temple and the porticoes of the court;

• Ezekiel 42:1

  And he brought me out into the outer court, by the way toward the north, and he brought me to the chamber that was opposite the separate area and that was opposite the building, toward the north.

• Ezekiel 42:10

  In the width of the fence of the court, toward the east, in front of the separate area and in front of the building, there were chambers.

• Ezekiel 42:13

  And he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers that are in front of the separate area, they are the holy chambers, where the priests who are near to YHWH eat the most holy things; there they shall put the most holy things, and the grain offering, and the sin offering, and the guilt offering; for the place is holy.