TBESH · H1494
גָּזַז · ga.zaz · to shear
1) to shear, mow 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to shear 1a2) shearer (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be cut off, be destroyed
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ga.zaz H1494
גָּזַז (ga.zaz) means “to shear” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
גָּזַז Hebrew · H1494 15 tagged occurrences in 15 verses
Pronunciation guide: gaw-zaz' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
a primitive root (akin to H1468 (גּוּז)); to cut off; specifically to shear aflock or shave the hair; figuratively to destroy an enemy
KJV glosses: cut off (down), poll, shave, (sheep-) shear(-er).
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How translators render H1494
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| shearing | 2 |
| and cut off your hair | 1 |
| and shaved | 1 |
| are you to shear | 1 |
| cut off | 1 |
| for my shearers | 1 |
| her shearers | 1 |
| hired shearers | 1 |
| his sheepshearers | 1 |
| it is time for shearing | 1 |
| sheepshearers | 1 |
| they will be cut down | 1 |
| to shear | 1 |
| was shearing | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| to shear | 2 |
| and he was shearing | 1 |
| and poll | 1 |
| and shaved | 1 |
| cut off | 1 |
| did shear | 1 |
| for my shearers | 1 |
| had sheepshearers | 1 |
| hath sheepshearers | 1 |
| her shearers | 1 |
| nor shear | 1 |
| that thou hast shearers | 1 |
| unto his sheepshearers | 1 |
| yet thus shall they be cut down | 1 |
Verses containing H1494
Page 1 of 1. 15 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Genesis 31:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
Read word by word - Genesis 38:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.
Read word by word - Genesis 38:13
· BSB · 1 occurrence
When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 15:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 13:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 13:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”
Read word by word - Job 1:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,
Read word by word - Isaiah 53:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 7:29
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
Read word by word - Micah 1:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.
Read word by word - Nahum 1:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD says: “Though they are allied and numerous, yet they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no longer.
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