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Strong's #1508 - גִּזְרָה
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1) a cutting, polishing, separation
1a) cutting, polishing
1b) separation, separate place
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2061) rzc (גזר GZR) AC: Cut CO: Axe AB: ?: A cutting or separation into two or more pieces. [from: zc- cutting]
V) rzc (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)
Nm) rzc (גזר GZR) - Piece: KJV (2): piece, part - Strongs: H1506 (גֶּזֶר)
Nf1) erzc (גזרה GZRH) - I. Uninhabited:A place cut off. II. Decree:[Unknown connection to rootAramaic only] KJV (3): inhabited, decree - Strongs: H1509 (גְּזֵרָה), H1510 (גְּזֵרָה)
af1) erzcm (מגזרה MGZRH) - Axe: What is used to cut something in half. KJV (1): axe - Strongs: H4037 (מַגְזֵרָה)
ef1) erzic (גיזרה GYZRH) - Opposite: The place separate from an adjacent place. KJV (8): separate, polishing - Strongs: H1508 (גִּזְרָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
1 cutting, i.e. polishing (AV RV or carving, i.e. beauty of from, shape, compare VB) סַמִּיר גִּזְרָתָם Lamentations 4:7; their polishing, (or beauty of form) was as sapphire.
2 separation, הַגִּזְרָה Ezekiel 41:12,13,14,15; Ezekiel 42:1,10,13, separate place AV RV compare Da; i.e. yard, or space adjoining temple on three sides.
גִּזְרָה f.
(1) the form, figure of a man, so called from cutting and forming; comp. קֶצֶב from קָצַב, and French taille. Lamentations 4:7. To this answers Arabic جَرَزُ.
(2) a part of the sanctuary at Jerusalem; as far as may be collected from the not very clear words, -Eze. 41:1215 ; 42:1, 10 Ezekiel 42:10, 13 Ezekiel 42:13 an area or inclosure in the northern part of the temple, a hundred cubits long and broad, surrounded with a particular building (בִּנְיָה, בִּנְיָן), with cells (לְשָׁכוֹת) at the side. LXX. τὸ ἀπόλοιπον.
