גַּבַּי
Gabbai
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1373 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Nehemiah 1 verse
About this entry
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גבי (Gabbay) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Gabbai.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Nehemiah dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Nehemiah 11:8. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1373 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Nehemiah 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Gabbai 1×
- American Standard Version: Gabbai 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gabbai 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Gabbai 1×
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American Standard Version Public Domain
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
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Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Gabbai = "my back"
- the head of an important Benjamite family living in Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah
Word origin
Derived from גב (gab) (H1354) — back.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
גַּב ²
- 1. back, body &c. Targ. Y. II, Ex. II, 3 ג׳ נהרא river-side (Y. I גֵּיף). Targ. Job XIII, 12 גב טינא a body (lump) of clay.—Ḥull. 47ᵇ אגבא on top, opp. מגואי inside, below. Sabb. 109ᵃ אג׳ דכרעיה on his foot. Yoma 78ᵃ ג׳ דכרעא הוה it was the back (dorsum) of the foot, cmp. preced. גב רגל; a. fr.—Pl. גַּבִּין, גַּבֵּי־. Targ. Y. Gen. XXXI, 10; a. e.—[גבייה. Gen. R. s. 8, some ed., read גביים, v. preced.].—עַל גַּב, עַל גַּבֵּי as preced. Targ. II Chr. XXI, 3 ע"ג קרקע, v. אַגַּב. Targ. Y. II, Lev. I, 17; a. e.—ע"ג ידא upon one’s hand; כע"ג י׳ (כד, כִּיד) as upon one’s hand, i.e. exposed to danger. Targ. Job. XIII, 14; a. fr.—Also ellipt. כעל גב. Targ. Jud. IX, 17; a. e.
- 2. (prep.) גַּב, גַּבֵּי towards, with &c. Targ. Y. II, Num. XXI, 9.—With suffix of pers. pron. Targ. Job XIX, 4; a. fr.—Gen. R. s. 33 יתיב גַּבֵּיה he sat with him. Ib. גַּבְּכוֹן in your country. Y. Ned. VI, 40ᵃ sent letters גבי ר׳ יצחק through R. &c. Ib. גַּבָּן (thus we read) in our country. Ber. 10ᵃ ליתי … גַּבָּאי let Ezekiel come to me. Gen. R. s. 35 מן גַּבֵּיה ועד גַּבִּי from those with him &c., from his generation to mine.—Bets. 25ᵇ זיל לגבי דר׳ וכ׳ go to see R. &c.; a. v. fr.
גֵּבַי
- , v. גֶּבֶא
גבי
- (√גב, v. גבב) to collect a bill, taxes &c.; to make one’s self paid, to seize. Keth. 90ᵃ, a. fr. if a later creditor (second mortgagee) שקדם וג׳ מה שג׳ ג׳ collected first, what he has collected is his own. B. Mets. 13ᵇ גּוֹבֶה מנכסים ב"ח he may make himself paid of unmortgaged property. Keth. V, 1 גּוֹבָה את הכל she is entitled to the whole amount; a. v. fr.—Lev. R. s. 11 the king sent a treasury officer לִגְבוֹת to collect (the delinquent taxes); Gen. R. s. 42 לִגְבוֹתָהּ; Tanḥ. Sh’mini 9. [Lev. R. l. c. וגבו אותו, read והכו, cmp. Gen. R. l. c.] Ex. R. s. 30 מי ג׳ הימנו הדם וכ׳ who collected from him (punished him for) the blood on his hand? לא ישראל גָּבוּ אותו וכ׳ not the Israelites collected it, but the Gibeonites did.—Gen. R. s. 85; s. 92 end מצא ב"ח מקום לגבות וכ׳ the creditor met with a chance to collect his bill, i.e. the Lord takes this occasion to visit our sins; a. fr.—Part. pass. גָּבוּי collected, seized. B. Mets. 58ᵃ על הַגָּ׳ counting on the Shekel contributions collected (though not yet delivered in the Temple treasury); Keth. 108ᵃ; Y. Shek. II, beg. 46ᶜ. Shebu. 48ᵇ, a. fr. כג׳ דמי is considered as if collected (in the possession of the creditor); a. fr.
- 1. to be collected, to be collectible. B. Mets. l. c. על העתיד לִגָּבוֹת; Y. Shek. l. c. להִיגָּבוֹת on what is yet to be collected. Peah VIII, 7 הקופה נִגְבֵּית בשנים the charity fund must be collected by two persons; B. Bath. 8ᵇ; Snh. 17ᵇ; a. fr.
- 2. to be collected from, be taxed. Pesik. R. s. 10 לא היו נִיגְּבִים וכ׳ they were not highly taxed; a. fr.
- to cause to be collected. Ḥall. III, 1 מַגְבַּהַת חלתה she orders the priest’s gift to be collected; v., however, גָּבַהּ. Gitt. 35ᵇ הַגְבּוּהָ את השאר help her to collect the balance. [Tosef. Sabb. VI (VII), 1 מגבה, v. גָּבַח.]—Part. pass. fem. מוּגְבָּה collected fund. Tanḥ. Emor 18.
גְּבִי
- ; [
- 1. to rake, v. גְּבַב].].
- 2. to collect, tax. Targ. O. Deut. XXII, 19 (h. text ענש). Targ. Koh. VIII, 14; a. e.—Part. act. a. pass. גָּבֵי. Targ. Hos. VIII, 6 (some ed. incorr. גַּבֵּי, v. Rashi a. l.).—B. Mets. 12ᵇ ניהו דלא גָבֵי … מִגְבָא גָבֵי though it cannot be collected from mortgaged, it may be collected from unencumbered property. Y. Gitt. I, end, 43ᵈ נחתון מִיגְבֵי וכ׳ they went down (to Babylonia) to collect debts there for friends; Y. Kidd. III, 64ᵃ לגביה (read למִיגְבֵי); cmp. Gitt. 14ᵇ.—B. Mets. 17ᵇ גַּבְיָא she has a right to collect (seize); a. fr.
- as preced. Hif., to confiscate, fine. Targ. Am. IV, 5. Targ. Hos. VIII, 13 (some ed. מְגַבַּן Part. pass. Pa.).—Targ. Koh. XI, 4 לא מגבי אגר makes not (people) derive any gain.—B. Kam. 98ᵇ; Keth. 86ᵃ מַגְבֵּי ביה makes him pay. Ib. א׳ ביה כי וכ׳ made him pay the full amount, v. כָּשׁוֹרָא. Shebu. 48ᵇ אַגְבּוּיֵי מַגְבִּינָן ביה we do not order collection on such a bill. [Nidd. 65ᵇ מגבי בה, v. גִּיב a. גִּיחַ.]
- to be taxed, fined. Targ. O. Ex. XXI, 22.
גבי ²
- , Y. Succ. V, 55ᵇ bot., v. גְּבִינִי II
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Gabbai). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(tax gatherer), apparently the head of an important family of Benjamin resident at Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 11:8) (B.C. before 536.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
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