Lexical Definition

‎גִּשְׁפָּא‎ Gishpâʼ (ghish-paw') Gishpa ^N:N-M-P
of uncertain derivation

Gispa.

• § Gispa = "caress"
• Gishpa, an Israelite

1) an officer of the temple slaves returning from exile with Nehemiah

Extended Information

• A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Neh.11.21

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎גִּשְׁפָּא‎ proper name, masculine named after ‎צִיחָא‎ as an officer of Nethinim Neh 11:21 see om. B; ᵐ5^L & Manuscripts Γεσφα; name not elsewhere in OT, not even || 1Chr 9 possibly corrupted from ‎חֲשֻׂפָא‎ Neh 7:46 (following ‎צִחָא‎; in || Ezra 2:43 ‎חֲשׁוּפָא‎, ‎צִיחָא‎), ᵐ5 Ἁσφα (B; Manuscripts Ασειφα, etc.); compare BeRy.

Brown-Driver-Briggs References

Profile

Male • Returned leader • An overseer of the temple servants during Nehemiah's time.

Man living at the time of Exile and Return

Gishpa was an overseer of the temple servants (Nethinim) during Nehemiah's time.

• A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Neh.11.21;
• only referred to as Gishpa גִּשְׁפָּא.

Gishpa is mentioned briefly in Nehemiah 11:21 as one of the overseers of the Nethinim, or temple servants, who lived on the hill of Ophel in Jerusalem. The Nethinim were a group of people assigned to assist the Levites in the maintenance and service of the temple. They were originally Gibeonites who had been spared by Joshua (Joshua 9) and were later designated by David and the princes to serve in the temple (Ezra 8:20). Gishpa's role was to oversee and manage the work of the Nethinim.

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