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Strong's #1661 - גַּת

Transliteration

Gath

Phonetics

gath

Root Word (Etymology)

the same as (H1660)

Parts of Speech

Proper Name Location

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Gath = “winepress”

1) one of the five royal or chief cities of the Philistines and the native city of Goliath

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (33)

Joshua 1

1 Samuel 12

2 Samuel 4

1 Kings 5

2 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 5

2 Chronicles 2

Psalms 1

Amos 1

Micah 1

NAS (32)

Joshua 1

1 Samuel 12

2 Samuel 4

1 Kings 5

2 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 5

2 Chronicles 2

Amos 1

Micah 1

HCS (32)

Joshua 1

1 Samuel 12

2 Samuel 4

1 Kings 5

2 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 5

2 Chronicles 2

Amos 1

Micah 1

BSB (33)

Joshua 1

1 Samuel 12

2 Samuel 4

1 Kings 5

2 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 5

2 Chronicles 2

Psalms 1

Amos 1

Micah 1

ESV (31)

Joshua 1

1 Samuel 12

2 Samuel 4

1 Kings 5

2 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 5

2 Chronicles 2

Micah 1

WEB (32)

Joshua 1

1 Samuel 12

2 Samuel 4

1 Kings 5

2 Kings 1

1 Chronicles 5

2 Chronicles 2

Amos 1

Micah 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

II. גַּת proper name, of a location ( wine-press) — Philistine cityᵐ5 Γεθ, ᵑ9 Geth, Jos^{Ant. vi. 12}, 2etc., Γιττα (ed. Niese), exact site unknown (see GASm^{Geog. 194ff.}), named with Gaza and Ashdod Joshua 11:22 as home of remaining `Anakim; named with Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon and `Ekron 1 Samuel 6:17; with Ashkelon 1 Samuel 1:20; with Ashkelon, yabne and Ashdod 2 Chronicles 26:6; מֵעֶקְרוֺן וְעַדגַּֿת 1 Samuel 7:14, compare 1 Samuel 17:52 b and also 1 Samuel 17:52 a (read גַּת for גַּיְאᵐ5 We Dr); called גַּת מְּלִשְׁתִּים Amos 6:2; built up by Rehoboam, according to 2 Chronicles 11:8; taken by Hazael 2 Kings 12:18; also 1 Samuel 5:8; 1 Samuel 17:4,23 (of Goliath), compare 2 Samuel 21:20,22 = 1 Chronicles 20:6,8; 1 Samuel 21:11; 1 Samuel 21:13; 1 Samuel 27:2,3,4,11; 2 Samuel 15:18; 1 Kings 2:39 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 2:40,41; Psalm 56:1; Micah 1:10,14; 1 Chronicles 7:21; 1 Chronicles 8:13, also 1 Chronicles 18:1 (but "" מֶתֶגאַמָּה 2 Samuel 8:1; on change of this into reading in Chronicles see We); with ה locative, גַּ֫תָּה 1 Kings 2:40.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

גַּת (contr. from גֶּנֶת, of the form בֶּנֶת, בַּת, for יְגֶנֶת from the root יָנַן), pl. גִּתּוֹת f. [From נָנַז in Thes.]

(1) a wine-press, or rather the trough in which the grapes were trodden with the feet, whence the juice flowed into a vat (יֶקֶב) placed near, as it was squeezed from the grapes. Joel 4:13. דָּרַךְ גַּת to tread a winepress, Nehemiah 13:15; Lamentations 1:15.

(2) [Gath], pr. name of a city of the Philistines, where Goliath was born. Joshua 13:3; 1 Samuel 6:17, 21:11 1 Kings 2:39, 40 1 Kings 2:40. Hence patron. גִּתִּי. [Gittite].

(3) גַּת חֵפֶר (“wine-press of the well”), [Gathhepher], a town of the tribe of Zebulon (with ה local, גִּתָּה חֵפֶר), Joshua 19:13, celebrated as the birth-place of Jonah the prophet.

(4) גַּת רִמּוֹן (“wine-press of the pomegranate”); [Gath-rimmon], a town of the tribe of Dan, Joshua 19:45. [See Robinson, ii. 421].

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List of Word Forms

בְּגַ֑ת בְּגַ֛ת בְּגַ֥ת בְּגַֽת׃ בְּגַת֙ בְגַ֔ת בגת בגת׃ גַּ֑ת גַּ֔ת גַּ֖ת גַּ֗ת גַּ֙תָה֙ גַּ֣ת גַּ֥ת גַּֽת׃ גַֽת׃ גַת֙ גַת־ גת גת־ גת׃ גתה לְגַ֥ת לגת מִגַּ֑ת מִגַּ֔ת מִגַּֽת׃ מִגַּת֙ מגת מגת׃ bə·ḡaṯ ḇə·ḡaṯ beGat bəḡaṯ ḇəḡaṯ ga·ṯāh gat gaṯ ḡaṯ ḡaṯ- gatah gaṯāh lə·ḡaṯ leGat ləḡaṯ mig·gaṯ migGat miggaṯ veGat