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גִּזְרִי

Gerezites

BDB lists 3 entries for ‘Gerezites’ fuller range ↓

H1511 Strong's Hebrew
Gizrîy Transliteration
/ghiz-ree'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 2 appearances

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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.

גזרי — transliterated Gizrîy — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Gerezites.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in 1 Samuel (100% of all occurrences). It occurs only once, in 1 Samuel 27:8. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Gezrites
Modern gloss
Gerezites
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H1511 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.
1 Samuel 27:8
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in 1 Samuel 27:8.
#4,807
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 1 · 100%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

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.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%

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: Gezrites 1×
  • American Standard Version: Girzites 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Girzites 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Girzite 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H1511 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Gezrites” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H1511 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Girzites” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H1511 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Girzites” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H1511 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Girzite” 1×

Senses in BDB

The 3 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.

  1. Gerezites = "the cutters off"
  2. inhabitants of Gezer
  3. inhabitants of Mt Gerizim?

Word origin

גִּזְרִי adj.gent. 1 S 27:8 Qr (Kt והגרזי ) cf. Dr.

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from גזר (Gezer) (H1507) — Gezer.

Part of speech: Adjective


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.

גִּזְרָא ²

  • (cmp. h. גּוֹדְרוֹת) sheep in folds, fold, flock. Targ. Prov. XXX, 31 בית גיז׳ Ms. (ed. גיורא) between the flock.—Pl. constr. גִּזְרֵי. Targ. I Kings XX, 27 (h. text חשיפי).

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 H1511 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’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
ו/ה/גרזי Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 Samuel 27:8 1
וְ/הַ/גִּזְרִ֖י Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 Samuel 27:8 1

Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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