גּוּז
to pass away
‘to pass away’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (50%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1468 appears — 2 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
Numbers 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, גוז (gûwz) means “to pass away.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 2 verses. The word gravitates to Numbers (50%), then Psalms. First canonically at Numbers 11:31, it enters the text early. Carrying more than one sense, it rewards its full sense range. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1468 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
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 2 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 50%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Brought 1×, Cut off 1×
- American Standard Version: Brought 1×, Gone 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Drove in 1×, Pass 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Brought 1×, Passes 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1468 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1468 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1468 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1468 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 1 sense the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. גָּז ψ 90:10; Impf. וַיָּ֫גָז Nu 11:31;—pass away, of the life of the aged, ψ 90:10 גָּז חִישׁ; trans. bring over, subj. wind, obj. quails from sea, Nu 11:31 (read perhaps Hiph. וַיָּגֶז cf. Köi 442 Di). e.g. Psalms 90:10
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. pass over, away (Arabic جَازَ pass by, over; Aramaic גּוּז cross, ܓܳܙ pass away, fail)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from גזז (gazâz) (H1494) — to shear.
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.
גּוּז
- v. גזז) to cut (the way, air), pass, fly.—Hif. הֵגִיז to carry across, drive up. Mekh. Yithro, Baḥod. s. 5; Tanḥ. Vayikra 3; Yalk. Lev. 427.
גּוּז ²
- 1. to cut, cut off.—Part. גָּאִיז, גָּיֵיז. Gitt. 67ᵇ זימנין דג׳ ליה לדיבוריה sometimes one cuts his speech short (does not finish his sentence).—Ned. 68ᵃ בעל מֵיגַז גָּיֵיז does the husband (betrothed) cut the vow apart, i.e. annul half the vow of his betrothed, leaving it to her father to annul the other half?, opp. מיקלש קליש he weakens the stringency of the entire vow.
- 2. to cross, pass. Targ. Is. LI, 10.—Koh. R. to VII, 8 גייז וכ׳ passed the street riding on horse-back (Yalk. ib. 974 עבר). Lev. R. s. 37 [read:] מן דגייזין בחד נהר when they were crossing a river.
- to carry across. Gen. R. s. 10 מְגִיזָה יתיה וכ׳ carried it across the river; Koh. R. to V, 8; Yalk. ib. 972 מְגִיזָא; Lev. R. s. 22 ומגזתיה (corr. ומְגִיזְתֵּיה). Koh. R. l. c. אֲגִיזְתֵּיה she carried it over; Lev. R. l. c. אגיזתא (corr. acc.).
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H1468 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| גָ֥ז | Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Psalms 90:10 | 1 |
| וַ/יָּ֣גָז | Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Numbers 11:31 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1468, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
