Lady
גְּבֶ֫רֶתStrong’s H1404geveret (ge-ve-ret)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Geveret is the Hebrew word usually translated “mistress her”, “mistress my” and “mistress your”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.”
Meaning
- Lady, queen
- Mistress (of servants)
How it's translated
- mistress her 4
- mistress my 1
- mistress your 1
- as mistress her 1
- queen of 1
- a queen 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 3
- Isaiah 3
- 2 Kings 1
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 16:8And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
- Genesis 16:9And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
- 2 Kings 5:3And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
- Psalms 123:2Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
- Proverbs 30:23For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
- Isaiah 24:2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
Hebrew dictionary
גְּבֶ֫רֶת geveret · lady
1) lady, queen 2) mistress (of servants)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lady” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LA'DY, noun
- A woman of distinction.
- A word of complaisance; used of women.
- Mistress; the female who presides or has authority over a manor or a family.
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.