Gizrah גִּזְרָה
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| גִּזְרָה | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | gizrah |
| Strong's number | H1508 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | feminine noun |
| Gloss | cutting/separation |
| Occurrences | 8 in 8 verses |
| Most frequent in | Ezekiel (7) |
Gizrah (Hebrew גִּזְרָה, Strong's H1508) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “cutting/separation”. It occurs 8 times in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) a cutting, polishing, separation
1a) cutting, polishing
1b) separation, separate place
1a) cutting, polishing
1b) separation, separate place
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | place (7), polishing (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | temple courtyard (6), their appearance (1), courtyard (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Gizrah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Lamentations
- Lamentations 4:7Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 41:12Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:13So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;Then he measured the temple to be a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.
- Ezekiel 41:14Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.The width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:15And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The outer sanctuary, the inner sanctuary, and the porticoes facing the court,
- Ezekiel 42:1Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.Then the man led me out northward into the outer court, and he brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the outer wall on the north side.
- Ezekiel 42:10The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.On the south side along the length of the wall of the outer court were chambers adjoining the courtyard and opposite the building,
- Ezekiel 42:13Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers, which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the Lord shall eat the most holy things: there shall they lay the most holy things, and the meat offering, and the sin offering, and the trespass offering; for the place is holy.Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings—the grain offerings, the sin offerings, and the guilt offerings—for the place is holy.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).