Gift
שַׁיStrong’s H7862shay
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shay is the Hebrew word usually translated “gift”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Because of thy temple at Jerusalem shall kings bring presents unto thee.”
Meaning
- Gift, present, gift offered as homage
How it's translated
- a gift 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 76:11Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.
- Isaiah 18:7In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁי shay · gift
gift, present, gift offered as homage
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “gift” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GIFT, noun
[from give.]
A present; any thing given or bestowed; any thing, the property of which is voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a donation. It is applicable to any thing movable or immovable.
- The act of giving or conferring.
- The right or power of giving or bestowing.
- An offering or oblation.“If thou bring thy gift to the altar” Matthew 5:23
- A reward.“Let thy gifts be to thyself” Daniel 5:17
All definitions and other forms of “gift”
- A bribe; any thing given to corrupt the judgment.“Neither take a gift; for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise” Deuteronomy 16:19
- Power; faculty; some quality or endowment conferred by the author of our nature; as the gift of wit; the gift of ridicule.
GIFT, verb transitive
To endow with any power or faculty.
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.