Body
גְּוִיָּהStrong’s H1472geviyyah (ge-viy-yah)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Geviyyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “bodies their”, “body our” and “carcass of”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.”
Meaning
- A body (of living creatures)
- A corpse, carcass, dead body
How it's translated
- bodies their 2
- body our 1
- in carcass of 1
- from carcass of 1
- corpse his 1
- corpse of 1
- corpses of 1
- bodies our 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 2
- 1 Samuel 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Genesis 1
- Nehemiah 1
- Psalms 1
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 47:18When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
- Judges 14:8And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.
- Judges 14:9And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.
- 1 Samuel 31:10And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Bethshan.
- 1 Samuel 31:12All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.
- Nehemiah 9:37And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Hebrew dictionary
גְּוִיָּה geviyyah · body
1) a body (of living creatures) 2) a corpse, carcass, dead body
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “body” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOD'Y, noun
- The frame of an animal; the material substance of an animal, in distinction from the living principle of beasts, and the soul of man.
- Matter, as opposed to spirit.
- A person; a human being; sometimes alone; more generally, with some or no; as, somebody; nobody.
- Reality, as opposed to representation.“A shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ” Colossians 2:17
All definitions and other forms of “body”
- A collective mass; a number of individuals or particulars united; as the body of mankind. 1 Corinthians 12:12
- The main army, in distinction from the wings, van or rear.
- A corporation; a number of men, united by a common tie, by one form of government, or by occupation; as the legislative body; the body of the clergy; body corporate; body politic.
- The main part; the bulk; as the body of a tree; the body of a coach, of a ship, etc.
- Any extended solid substance; matter; any substance or mass distinct from others; as a metaline body; a floating body; a moving body; a light body; a heavy body
- A pandect; a general collection; a code; a system; as a body of laws; a body of divinity.
- Strength; as wine of a good body
- Among painters, colors bear a body when they are capable of being ground so fine, and of being mixed so entirely with oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color.
- The unrenewed part of man, or sensual affections.“But I keep under by body” 1 Corinthians 9:27
- The extent; the limits.
BOD'Y, verb transitive
To produce in some form.
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.