גְּוִיָּה

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hebrewOld TestamentNoun · feminine13 occurrences8 books11 verses

Definition

prolonged for H1465; a body, whether alive or dead
Traditional renderings: (dead) body, carcase, corpse.

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

13 total
  1. Genesis 47:18גְּוִיָּתֵ֖נוּ · our bodies
    When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
  2. Judges 14:8בִּגְוִיַּ֥ת · and in [it]
    When Samson returned later to take her, he left the road to see the lion’s carcass, and in it was a swarm of bees, along with their honey.
  3. Judges 14:9מִגְּוִיַּ֥ת · carcass
    So he scooped some honey into his hands and ate it as he went along. And when he returned to his father and mother, he gave some to them and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion’s carcass.
  4. 1 Samuel 31:10גְּוִיָּתוֹ֙ · his body
    They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
  5. 1 Samuel 31:12גְּוִיַּ֣ת · the bodies; גְּוִיֹּ֣ת · [and]
    …all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.
  6. Nehemiah 9:37גְּ֠וִיֹּתֵינוּ · our bodies
    Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.
  7. Psalm 110:6גְוִיּ֑וֹת · the dead
    He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.
  8. Ezekiel 1:11גְּוִיֹתֵיהֶֽנָה׃ · body
    Such were their faces. Their wings were spread upward; each had two wings touching the wings of the creature on either side, and two wings covering its body.
  9. Ezekiel 1:23גְּוִיֹּתֵיהֶֽם׃ · its body
    And under the expanse, their wings stretched out toward one another. Each one also had two wings covering its body.
  10. Daniel 10:6וּגְוִיָּת֣וֹ · His body [was]
    His body was like beryl, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of polished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude.
  11. Nahum 3:3לַגְּוִיָּ֔ה · dead bodies; בִּגְוִיָּתָֽם׃ · over their dead
    Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—