BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1515
ga.char — Gahar
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.47 § Gahar = "hiding place" the head of a family of temple slaves returning from exile with Zerubbabel
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Lurking-place, one of the chief of the Nethinim, whose descendants returned to Jerusalem under Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:47).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
