To determine
גְּזַרStrong’s H1505gezar (ge-zar)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gezar is the Aramaic word usually translated “astrologers”, “it was cut out” and “astrologers the”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king;”
Meaning
- To cut, determine(P'al) determiner (participle) · (Ithp'al) to be cut out
How it's translated
- astrologers 2
- it was cut out 2
- and astrologers the 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 6
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Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:34In contextThou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
- Daniel 2:45In contextForasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
- Daniel 4:7In contextThen came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
- Daniel 5:7In contextThe king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 5:11In contextThere is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;
Aramaic dictionary
גְּזַר gezar · to determine
1) to cut, determine 1a) (P'al) determiner (participle) 1b) (Ithp'al) to be cut out
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “determine” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DETERMINE, verb transitive
[Latin, to bound; a boundary or limit. Gr. See Term.]
- To end; particularly, to end by the decision or conclusion of a cause, or of a doubtful or controverted point; applicable to the decisions of the mind, or to judicial decisions.
- To end and fix; to settle ultimately; as, this event determined his fate.
- To fix on; to settle or establish; as, to determine the proper season for planting seeds.“God--hath determined the times before appointed” Acts 17:26
- To end; to limit; to bound; to confine.
All definitions and other forms of “determine”
- To give a direction to; to influence the choice; that is, to limit to a particular purpose or direction; as, this circumstance determined him to the study of law.
- To resolve, that is, to end or settle a point in the mind, as in Definition first.“I determined this with myself” 2 Corinthians 2:1“Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus” Acts 20:16
- To destroy. [Not used.]
- To put an end to; as, to determine a will.
- To settle or ascertain, as something uncertain.
DETERMINE, verb intransitive
- To resolve; to conclude; to come to a decision.“He shall pay as the judges determine” Exodus 21:22
- To end; to terminate.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.