Help QuickNav Adv. Options
AMP

AMP

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H1472 - gᵊvîyâ

Choose a new font size and typeface
גְּוִיָּה
Transliteration
gᵊvîyâ
Pronunciation
ghev-ee-yaw'
Listen
Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Prolonged for גֵּוָה (H1465)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 326d

Strong’s Definitions

גְּוִיָּה gᵉvîyâh, ghev-ee-yaw'; prolonged for H1465; a body, whether alive or dead:—(dead) body, carcase, corpse.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x

The KJV translates Strong's H1472 in the following manner: body (9x), corpse (2x), carcase (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 13x
The KJV translates Strong's H1472 in the following manner: body (9x), corpse (2x), carcase (2x).

  1. a body (of living creatures)

  2. a corpse, carcass, dead body

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גְּוִיָּה gᵉvîyâh, ghev-ee-yaw'; prolonged for H1465; a body, whether alive or dead:—(dead) body, carcase, corpse.
STRONGS H1472: Abbreviations
† גְּוִיָּה noun feminine body, corpse — absolute ג׳ Nahum 3:3; construct גְּוִיַּת Judges 14:8 + 2 times; suffix גְּוִיָּתוֺ 1 Samuel 31:10; Daniel 10:6, גְּוִיָּתֵנוּ Genesis 47:18, גְּוִיָּתָם Nahum 3:3; plural absolute גְּוִיּוֺת Psalm 110:6; suffix גְּוִיֹּתֵנוּ Nehemiah 9:37, גְּוִיֹּתֵיהֶם Ezekiel 1:23, גְּוִיֹּתֵיהֶ֑נָֿה Ezekiel 1:11; —
1. living human body Genesis 47:18 (singular, of many persons), compare plural Nehemiah 9:37; of man in Daniel's vision Daniel 10:6 (body apart from extremities); also of the living creatures in Ezekiel's vision Ezekiel 1:11, 28.
2. dead body, corpse, carcass:
a. of man 1 Samuel 31:10 (so originally in || 1 Chronicles 10:10 see WeSm compare Dr) 1 Chronicles 10:12; 1 Chronicles 10:12 (singular of several persons), Psalm 110:6; collective Nahum 3:3 (twice in verse);
b. of lion Judges 14:8, 9.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

47:18; 47:18

Judges

14:8; 14:8; 14:9

1 Samuel

31:10; 31:10

1 Chronicles

10:10; 10:12; 10:12

Nehemiah

9:37; 9:37

Psalms

110:6; 110:6

Ezekiel

1:11; 1:11; 1:23; 1:28

Daniel

10:6; 10:6

Nahum

3:3; 3:3; 3:3

H1472

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1472 matches the Hebrew גְּוִיָּה (gᵊvîyâ),
which occurs 13 times in 11 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:18 - When that year was ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord [the fact] that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of livestock; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our lands.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:8 - When he returned later to take her, he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, a swarm of bees and honey were in the body of the lion.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:9 - So he scraped the honey out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. When he came to his father and mother, he gave them some, and they ate it; but he did not tell them he had taken the honey from the body of the lion.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:10 - And they put Saul’s weapons and armor in the temple of the Ashtaroth (female goddesses), and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:12 - all the brave men stood and walked all night, and they took the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and cremated them there.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:37

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:37 -

“Its abundant produce is for the kings

Whom You have set over us because of our sins;

They also rule over our bodies

And over our cattle as they please,

So we are in great distress.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 110:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 110:6 -

He will execute judgment [in overwhelming punishment] among the nations;

He will fill them with corpses,

He will crush the chief men over a broad country.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:11 - Such were their faces. Their wings were stretched out upward; two [wings] of each one were touching another [the wings of the beings on either side of it], and [the remaining] two [wings of each being] were covering their bodies.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:23 - Under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight, one toward another. Every living being had two wings which covered its body on one side and on the other side.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Dan 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:6 - His body also was like beryl [with a golden luster], his face had the appearance of lightning, his eyes were like flaming torches, his arms and his feet like the gleam of burnished bronze, and the sound of his words was like the noise of a multitude [of people or the roaring of the sea].

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Nah 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:3 -

Horsemen charging,

Swords flashing, spears gleaming,

Many slain, a mass of corpses,

No end of corpses—

The horsemen stumble over the corpses!

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
AMP
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
AMP
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan