Back
גֵּוStrong’s H1460gev
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gev is the Hebrew word usually translated “back of”, “back your” and “community”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)”
Meaning
- The back, back
- Midst, the midst
How it's translated
- for back of 3
- back your 2
- community 1
- back my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 3
- Isaiah 3
- Job 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Proverbs 10:13In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
- Proverbs 19:29Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.
- Proverbs 26:3A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
- Isaiah 38:17Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
- Isaiah 50:6I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
- Isaiah 51:23But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
Hebrew dictionary
גֵּו gev · back
the back, back
גַּו gav · midst
midst, the midst Aramaic of gev (גֵּו "midst" H1460B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “back” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BACK, noun
- The upper part of an animal, particularly of a quadruped, whose back is a ridge.
- The outward or convex part of the hand, opposed to the inner, concave part, or palm.
- As the back of man is the part on the side opposite to the face; hence the part opposed to the front; as the back of a book and of a chimney, or the back of a house.
- The part opposite to or most remote from that which fronts the speaker or actor, or the part out of sight; as the back of an isle, of a wood, of a village.
All definitions and other forms of “back”
- As the back is the strongest part of an animal, and as the back is behind in motion; hence the thick and strong part of a cutting tool; as the back of a knife, or of a saw.
- The place behind or nearest the back; as, on the back of a hill or of a village.
- The outer part of the body, or the whole body; a part for the whole; as, he has not clothes to his back
- To turn the back on one, is to forsake, or neglect him.
- To turn the back to one, to acknowledge to be superior.
- To turn the back is to depart, or to leave the care or cognizance of; to remove or be absent.
- Behind the back is in secret, or when one is absent.
- To cast behind the back in scripture, is to forget and forgive, Is.xxxviii, 17; or to treat with contempt.
- To plow the back is to oppress and persecute. Psalms 129:3
- To bow the back is to submit to oppression.
BACK, adverb
To the place from which one came; as, to go back is to return.
- In a figurative sense, to a former state, condition or station; as, he cannot go back from his engagements.
- Behind; not advancing; not coming or bringing forward; as, to keep back a part; to keep one's selfback.
- Towards times or things past; as, to look back on former ages.
- Again; in return; as, give back the money.
- To go or come back is to return, either to a former place, or state.
- To go or give back is to retreat to recede.
BACK, verb transitive
To mount; to get upon the back; sometimes perhaps to place upon the back; as, to back a horse.
- To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid; as, the Court was backed by the House of Commons.
- To put backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
- To back a warrant, is for a justice of the peace in the county where the warrant is to be executed, to sign or indorse a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender.
- In seamanship, to back an anchor is to lay down a small anchor ahead of a large one, the cable of the small one being fastened to the crown of the large one, to prevent its coming home.
- To back astern, in rowing, is to manage the oars in a direction contrary to the usual method, to move a boat stern foremost.
- To back the sails, is to arrange them so as to cause the ship to move astern.
BACK, verb intransitive
To move or go back; as, the horse refuses to 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.