Lexical Definition

‎גֵּב‎ gêb (gabe) cistern ^H:N-M
from ‎גּוּב‎

beam, ditch, pit.

• a log (as cut out)
• also well or cistern (as dug)

1) pit, trench, ditch, beam, rafter
1a) pit, trench
1b) beam, rafter

Extended Information

• beam, rafter

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. [‎גֵּב‎] pit, III. [‎גֵּב‎] beam, see below ‎גוב‎.

II. ‎גֵּב‎ noun [masculine] pit, ditch, trench, (Arabic hollow, depression; Syriac cistern) — only plural ‎גֵּבִים‎ Jer 14:3 in 2Kgs 3:16 ‎גבים גבים‎, i.e. full of ditches; further, cisterns (according to Klo 2Kgs 25:12) Jer 39:10 ‎וִּיגֵבִים‎ (read ‎וְגֵבִים‎); compare also || 2Kgs 25:12 (‎ולגבים‎ Kt, ‎וּלְיוֺגְבִים‎ Qr) = Jer 52:16 (‎וּלְֹיגְבִים‎; both with ‎כֹּרְמִים‎); Klo propose to emend these, so as to read in all ‎וַיִּתֵּן לָהֶם כְּרָמִים וְגֵבִים‎ and gave to them vineyards and cisterns; another view in Th; compare further ‎גוב‎, ‎יגב‎. — I. ‎גֵּב‎ see below ‎גבה‎.

III. [‎גֵּב‎] noun [masculine] beam, rafter? (Thes below ‎גוב‎, but meaning & √ dubious), ‎גֵּבִים‎ 1Kgs 6:9 but Lag^{Armen. Stud. § 499, M i. 212; BN 155} reads ‎גֻּבְּדִים‎ (Persian , Armenian γμβεθ) vaulted roofs.

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