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Strong's #1505 - גְּזַר

Transliteration

gᵉzar

Phonetics

ghez-ar'

Root Word (Etymology)

corresponding to (H1504)

Parts of Speech

Verb

TWOT

2654

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

1) to cut, determine

1a) (Peal) determiner (participle)

1b) (Ithpeal) to be cut out

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (6)

Daniel 6

NAS (6)

Daniel 6

HCS (6)

Daniel 6

BSB (6)

Daniel 6

ESV (6)

Daniel 6

WEB (6)

Daniel 6

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2061) r z c (גזר GZR) AC: Cut CO: Axe AB: ?: A cutting or separation into two or more pieces. [from: zc- cutting]

V) r z c (גזר GZR) - Cut: To separate by cutting or removing. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (19): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Participle) cut, divide, decree, snatch - Strongs: H1504 (גָּזַר), H1505 (גְּזַר)

N^m) r z c (גזר GZR) - Piece: KJV (2): piece, part - Strongs: H1506 (גֶּזֶר)

N^f1) e r z c (גזרה GZRH) - I. Uninhabited:A place cut off. II. Decree:[Unknown connection to rootAramaic only] KJV (3): inhabited, decree - Strongs: H1509 (גְּזֵרָה), H1510 (גְּזֵרָה)

a^f1) e r z c m (מגזרה MGZRH) - Axe: What is used to cut something in half. KJV (1): axe - Strongs: H4037 (מַגְזֵרָה)

e^f1) e r z i c (גיזרה GYZRH) - Opposite: The place separate from an adjacent place. KJV (8): separate, polishing - Strongs: H1508 (גִּזְרָה)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

[גְּזַר] verb cut, (divide,) determine (so ᵑ7 Syriac, in both meanings; Biblical Hebrew usually divide, Job , Esther , decree); —

Pe. Participle active as substantive, plural absolute גָָּֽזְרִין determiners (of fate; astrologers or soothsayers) Daniel 2:27; Daniel 5:11; emphatic גָָּֽזְרַיָּא Daniel 4:4; Daniel 5:7 (compare Dr.; Arabic RS^{JPhil. xiii (1885), 781}).

Hithpe`el Perfect 3 feminine singular הִתְגְּזֶרֶת Daniel 2:34 a stone was cut out, so ׳אִתְג (K^{§ § 23,1; 30,2}) Daniel 2:45 (with מִן of source).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

גְּזַר Ch.

(1) i.q. Heb. No. 1, to cut, to cut away, see Ithpeal.

(2) i.q. Heb. No. 4, to decree, to decide, to establish, specially used of fate. Part. pl. גָּֽזְרִין pr. the deciders, determiners, hence the Chaldee astrologers, who, from the position of the stars at the hour of birth, by various arts of computation and divining (Numeri Babylonii, Hor. Carm. i. 11, 2), determined the fate of individuals. Daniel 2:27, 4:4 5:7, 11. Comp. Ch. גְּזֵירָא decree, in the Rabb. used of the divine decree, fate. גַּזְרוֹן the art of casting nativities, on which comp. my Comment. on Isa. vol. ii. p. 349.

Ithpeal, to be cut off, 3 pret. fem. אִתְגְּזֶרֶת Daniel 2:45, and in the Hebrew manner, הִתְגְּזֶרֶת verse 34.

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List of Word Forms

אִתְגְּזֶ֨רֶת אתגזרת גָּזְרִ֔ין גזרין הִתְגְּזֶ֤רֶת התגזרת וְגָזְרַיָּ֑א וגזריא ’iṯ·gə·ze·reṯ ’iṯgəzereṯ gā·zə·rîn gazeRin gāzərîn hiṯ·gə·ze·reṯ hitgeZeret hiṯgəzereṯ itgeZeret vegazeraiYa wə·ḡā·zə·ray·yā wəḡāzərayyā