גְּעָרָה
rebuke
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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1606 appears in the Book of Ecclesiastes — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Ecclesiastes
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.
גערה — transliterated gᵉʻârâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “rebuke.” Debuting at 2 Samuel 22:16, it then recurs through the corpus. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 14 verses — uncommon. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Psalms. It shares a root with גער and מגערת. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1606 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 →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,836
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,836 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
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 14 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 9 verses · 64%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 36%
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: Rebuke 11×, Reproof 2×
- American Standard Version: Rebuke 11×, Threat 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Rebuke 12×, Threat 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Rebuke 9×, Rebuke of 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1606 across 15 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1606 across 15 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 H1606 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1606 across 15 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 2 senses and sub-senses 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.
- 1. of man Pr 13:1, 8; 17:10 Ec 7:5 Is 30:17(×2). e.g. Proverbs 13:1
- 2. of God Jb 26:11 ψ 18:16 (= 2 S 22:16) 76:7; 80:17; 104:7 Is 50:2; 51:20; 66:15. e.g. Job 26:11
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
n.f. rebuke—Pr 13:1 + 2 times; גַּעֲרַת Ec 7:5 + 5 times; sf. גַּעֲרָֽתְךָ ψ 18:16 + (sfs. 6 times);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from גער (gâʻar) (H1605) — to rebuke.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms H1606 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| גְּעָרָֽה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 13:1 | 2 |
| גַּעֲרַ֣ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Ecclesiastes 7:5 | 2 |
| גַּעֲרַ֥ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 30:17 | 2 |
| בְּ/גַעֲרַ֣ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | 2 Samuel 22:16 | 1 |
| בְּ/גַעֲרָתִ֞/י | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 50:2 | 1 |
| גְּעָרָ֣ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Proverbs 17:10 | 1 |
| גַּעֲרָ֣תְ/ךָ֣ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 104:7 | 1 |
| וְ/גַעֲרָת֖/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 66:15 | 1 |
| מִ/גַּעֲרַ֖ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 80:16 | 1 |
| מִ/גַּעֲרָ֣תְ/ךָ֣ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 18:15 | 1 |
| מִ/גַּעֲרָתֽ/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Job 26:11 | 1 |
| מִ֭/גַּעֲרָ֣תְ/ךָ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 76:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1606, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 14 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
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.
