To shear
גָּזַזStrong’s H1494gazaz (ga-zaz)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gazaz is the Hebrew word usually translated “shearers”, “shear” and “shearers of”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.”
Meaning
- To shear, mow(Qal) · (Niphal) to be cut off, be destroyed
How it's translated
- shearers 3
- to shear 2
- shearers of 1
- you will shear 1
- when sheared 1
- shearing 1
- for shearers my 1
- and he shaved 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 4
- Genesis 3
- 2 Samuel 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
9 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 38:12And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
- Genesis 38:13And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
- Deuteronomy 15:19All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
- 1 Samuel 25:2And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 25:4And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
- 1 Samuel 25:7And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.
Hebrew dictionary
גָּזַז gazaz · to shear
1) to shear, mow 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to shear 1a2) shearer (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be cut off, be destroyed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shear” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHEAR, verb transitive
preterit tense sheared; participle passive sheared or shorn. The old preterit tense shore is entirely obsolete.
- To cut or clip something from the surface with an instrument of two blades; to separate any thing from the surface by shears, scissors or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
- To separate by shears; as, to shear a fleece.
- To reap. [Not in use.] Scotish.
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.