Fleece
גִּזָּהStrong’s H1492gazzah (gaz-zah)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gazzah is the Hebrew word usually translated “fleece” and “fleece of”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.”
Meaning
- Fleece
How it's translated
- the fleece 5
- fleece of 1
- by the fleece 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 4
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 6:38And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
- Judges 6:39And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
- Judges 6:40And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
Hebrew dictionary
גִּזָּה gazzah · fleece
fleece
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.