Fleece
גֵּזStrong’s H1488gez
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gez is the Hebrew word usually translated “fleece of”, “from fleece of” and “mown grass”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.”
Meaning
- A shearing, mowingshearing, that sheared off · a mowing, mown grass
How it's translated
- fleece of 1
- and from fleece of 1
- mown grass 1
- mowings of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
- Amos 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 31:20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
- Psalms 72:6He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
- Amos 7:1Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
Hebrew dictionary
גֵּז gez · fleece
1) a shearing, mowing 1a) shearing, that sheared off 1b) a mowing, mown grass
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fleece” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLEECE, noun
flees. [Latin vellus, from vello, to pluck or tear off.]
All definitions and other forms of “fleece”
FLEECE, verb transitive
- To shear off a covering or growth of wool.
- To strip of money or property; to take from, by severe exactions, under color of law or justice, or pretext of necessity, or by virtue of authority.
- To spread over as with wool; to make white.
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.