Cistern
גֵּבStrong’s H1356gev
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gev is the Hebrew word usually translated “ditches”, “beams” and “cisterns”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.”
Meaning
- Pit, trench, ditch
- Beam, rafter
How it's translated
- ditches 2
- beams 1
- cisterns 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
גֵּב gev · cistern
pit, trench, ditch,
גֵּב gev · beam
beam, rafter
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cistern” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CISTERN, noun
- An artificial reservoir or receptacle for holding water, beer or other liquor, as in domestic uses, distilleries, and breweries.
- A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water; as a fountain or lake.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.