Humpbacked
גִּבֵּןStrong’s H1384gibben (gib-ben)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Gibben is the Hebrew word usually translated “hunchbacked”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;”
Meaning
- Hump-backed, crook-backed
How it's translated
- a hunchbacked 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
גִּבֵּן gibben · humpbacked
hump-backed, crook-backed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “humpbacked” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HUMP'BACKED, adjective
Having a crooked back.
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.