Queen
גְּבִירָהStrong’s H1377gevirah (ge-vi-rah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gevirah is the Hebrew word usually translated “from queen-mother”, “queen” and “queen-mother”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.”
Meaning
- Queen, lady
- Queen-mother
How it's translated
- from queen-mother 2
- the queen 1
- the queen-mother 1
- and to the queen-mother 1
- and the queen-mother 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 2
- Jeremiah 2
- 2 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 15:13And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
- 2 Kings 10:13Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah; and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.
- 2 Chronicles 15:16And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
- Jeremiah 13:18Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
- Jeremiah 29:2(After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)
Hebrew dictionary
גְּבִירָה gevirah · queen
1) queen, lady 2) queen-mother
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “queen” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
QUEEN, noun
- The consort of a king; a queen consort.
- A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a queen-regent; as Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scotland.
- The sovereign of a swarm of bees, or the female of the hive.
All definitions and other forms of “queen”
QUEEN, verb intransitive
To play the queen; to act the part or character of a queen
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.