גְּוִיָּה
ge.viy.yah
body
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "ge.viy.yah" (Strong's number H1472) is defined as "body." With 13 occurrences in the Bible, it conveys a tangible, physical aspect, referring to a person's living form. Its range of usage is centered around descriptions of the human form, covering various circumstances. This can include references to someone's outer appearance, posture, or even the physical act of giving birth to an infant. One instance might involve physical strength or beauty, while another could focus on the vulnerability of a person in a weakened state. The significance of "ge.viy.yah" lies in its ability to convey the essence of human existence. The many instances where it appears show its importance in providing vivid descriptions, helping the reader to visualize, and to understand human conditions.
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Occurrences in Scripture
13 total occurrences across the text
It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Psalms 110:6He will judge among the nations. He will heap up dead bodies. He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.
Ezekiel 1:11Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above. Two wings of each one touched another, and two covered their bodies.
Ezekiel 1:23Under the expanse, their wings were straight, one toward the other. Each one had two which covered on this side, and each one had two which covered their bodies on that side.
Daniel 10:6His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as flaming torches. His arms and his feet were like burnished bronze. The voice of his words was like the voice of a multitude.
Nahum 3:3the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,
Nahum 3:3the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,
Genesis 47:18When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
Judges 14:8After a while he returned to take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
Judges 14:9He took it into his hands, and went on, eating as he went. He came to his father and mother and gave to them, and they ate, but he didn’t tell them that he had taken the honey out of the lion’s body.
1 Samuel 31:10They put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan.
1 Samuel 31:12all the valiant men arose, went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burned them there.
1 Samuel 31:12all the valiant men arose, went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burned them there.