גְּוִיָּה geviyyah

Hebrew word for “body” · Strong’s H1472 · used 13 times in 11 verses

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Meaning

1) a body (of living creatures); 2) a corpse, carcass, dead body

How it is translated

Glosses given for geviyyah in context, with how often each is used:

• bodies 4
• body 2
• carcass 2
• corpse 2
• corpses 2
• over bodies 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 14 (2), 1 Samuel 31 (2), Ezekiel 1 (2), Genesis 47 (1), Nehemiah 9 (1), Psalms 110 (1), Daniel 10 (1), Nahum 3 (1)

Forms

• גוית 2
• גויתנו 1
• בגוית 1
• מגוית 1
• גויתו 1
• גויתינו 1
• גויות 1
• גויתיהנה 1
• גויתיהם 1
• וגויתו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with geviyyah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• בֵּית שְׁאָן bet shean “Beth-shean” 2
• בָּרָק baraq “lightning” 2
• דְּבַשׁ devash “honey” 2
• אַרְיֵה aryeh “lion” 2
• כָּנָף kanaph “wing” 2
• חוֹמָה chomah “wall” 2
• כָּסָה kasah “to cover” 2
• בְּהֵמָה behemah “animal” 2
• שְׁנַיִם shenayim “two” 2
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 2
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 2

Key verses

The verses using geviyyah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 47:18 — When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also…
• Judges 14:8 — And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase…
• Judges 14:9 — And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had…
• 1 Samuel 31:10 — And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body 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, and came to Jabesh, and burnt…
• Nehemiah 9:37 — And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at…
• Psalms 110:6 — He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
• Ezekiel 1:11 — Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
• Ezekiel 1:23 — And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which…
• Daniel 10:6 — His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to…
• Nahum 3:3 — The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.