גֵּיחֲזִי
Gehazi
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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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 H1522 appears — 12 distinct verses 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.
2 Kings 12 verses
- 2 Kings 4:12 גֵּחֲזִ֣י n Proper He said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. When he had called her, she stood before him.
- 2 Kings 4:14 גֵּיחֲזִ֗י n Proper He said, What then is to be done for her? Gehazi answered, Most assuredly she has no son, and her husband is old.
- 2 Kings 4:25 גֵּיחֲזִ֣י n Proper So she went, and came to the man of God to Mount Carmel. It happened, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is the Shunammite:
- 2 Kings 4:27 גֵּֽיחֲזִ֜י n Proper When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, Let her alone: for her soul is vexed within her; and Yahweh has hid it from me, and has not told me.
- 2 Kings 4:29 לְ/גֵיחֲזִ֜י prep + n Proper Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up your loins, and take my staff in your hand, and go your way: if you meet any man, Don't greet him; and if anyone greets you, don't answer him again: and lay my staff on the face of the child.
- 2 Kings 4:31 וְ/גֵחֲזִ֞י conj + n Proper Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Therefore he returned to meet him, and told him, saying, The child has not awakened.
- 2 Kings 4:36 גֵּיחֲזִ֗י n Proper He called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. When she was come in to him, he said, Take up your son.
- 2 Kings 5:20 גֵּיחֲזִ֗י n Proper But Gehazi the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: as Yahweh lives, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.
- 2 Kings 5:21 גֵּיחֲזִ֖י n Proper So Gehazi followed after Naaman. When Naaman saw one running after him, he alighted from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?
- 2 Kings 5:25 גֵּחֲזִ֑י n Proper But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, Whence come you, Gehazi? He said, Your servant went no where.
- 2 Kings 8:4 גֵּ֣חֲזִ֔י n Proper Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Please tell me all the great things that Elisha has done.
- 2 Kings 8:5 גֵּֽחֲזִי֙ n Proper It happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, that behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.
About this entry
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“Gehazi” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name גיחזי (Gêychăzîy). It clusters heavily in 2 Kings, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. With 12 verses in 1 book, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. Scripture first uses it in 2 Kings 4:12. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1522 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,101
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Kings 12 verses 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 12 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 12 verses · 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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Gehazi 11×
- American Standard Version†: Gehazi 10×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Gehazi 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Gehazi 12×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1522 across 12† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1522 across 12† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1522 across 12† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1522 across 12† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- Gehazi = "valley of vision"
- the servant of Elisha
Word origin
n.pr.m. (valley of vision?) servant of Elisha, גֵיחֲזִי 2 K 4:12, 14, 25, 27, 29, 36; 5:20, 21; גֵּחֲזִי 2 K 4:31; 5:25; 8:4, 5.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from גיא (gayʼ) (H1516) — valley.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H1522 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| גֵּיחֲזִ֗י | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 4:14 | 3 |
| גֵּ֣חֲזִ֔י | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 8:4 | 1 |
| גֵּֽחֲזִי֙ | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 8:5 | 1 |
| גֵּֽיחֲזִ֜י | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 4:27 | 1 |
| גֵּחֲזִ֑י | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 5:25 | 1 |
| גֵּחֲזִ֣י | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 4:12 | 1 |
| גֵּיחֲזִ֖י | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 5:21 | 1 |
| גֵּיחֲזִ֣י | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 4:25 | 1 |
| וְ/גֵחֲזִ֞י | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 4:31 | 1 |
| לְ/גֵיחֲזִ֜י | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 4:29 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1522, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Gehazi). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Valley of vision, Elisha's trusted servant (2 Kings 4:31; 5:25; 8:4, 5). He appears in connection with the history of the Shunammite (2 Kings 4:14, 31) and of Naaman the Syrian. On this latter occasion he was guilty of duplicity and dishonesty of conduct, causing Elisha to denounce his crime with righteous sternness, and pass on him the terrible doom that the leprosy of Naaman would cleave to him and his for ever (5:20-27).
He afterwards appeared before king Joram, to whom he recounted the great deeds of his master (2 Kings 8:1-6).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(valley of vision), the servant or boy of Elisha. He was sent as the prophet's messenger on two occasions to the good Shunammite, (2 Kings 4:1) ... (B.C. 889-887); obtained fraudulently money and garments from Naaman, was miraculously smitten with incurable leprosy, and was dismissed from the prophet's service. (2 Kings 5:1) ... Later in the history he is mentioned as being engaged in relating to King Joram all the great things which Elisha had done. (2 Kings 8:4,5)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
valley of sight
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 12 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 12 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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