H1472 - גְּוִיָּה (gᵉvîyâh)

H1472 גְּוִיָּה (gᵉvîyâh) ghev-ee-yaw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

body

Strong's Definition

a body, whether alive or dead

Derivation: prolonged for H1465 (גֵּוָה);

KJV Usage: (dead) body, carcase, corpse.

TWOT Reference: 326d

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) a body (of living creatures)

2) a corpse, carcass, dead body

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G4430 G4983

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

גְּוִיָּה gevý̂yâh BDB Definition: 1) a body (of living creatures) 2) a corpse, carcass, dead body Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: prolonged for H1465 Same Word by TWOT Number: 326d Total KJV Occurrences: 14

Bible Occurrences (11)

47:18

14:8 14:9

31:10 31:12

9:37

110:6

1:11 1:23

10:6

3:3

Genesis 47:18

When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock... belongs to [you]. There is nothing left for our lord except...... our bodies and our land.

Judges 14:8

When [Samson] returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and in [it]... was a swarm of bees, along with their honey.

Judges 14:9

So he scooped some honey into his hands and ate it as he went along.... And when he returned to his father... and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.

1 Samuel 31:10

They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.

1 Samuel 31:12

all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul [and] his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.

Nehemiah 9:37

Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.

Ezekiel 1:11

Such were their faces. Their wings were spread upward; each [had] two [wings] touching the wings of the creature on either side, and two wings covering its body.

Ezekiel 1:23

And under the expanse, their wings stretched out toward one another. Each one also had two [wings] covering its body.