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Gob

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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1359

גֹּב

gov — Gob

Gob = "cistern" a place which was the scene of two encounters between David's warriors and the Philistines (also '"Gezer') Another name of ge.zer (גֶּ֫זֶר "Gezer" H1507)

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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5592

סַף

saph — basin

1) a spreading out, basin, goblet, bowl 1a) basin, goblet

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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H1507

גֶּ֫זֶר

ge.zer — Gezer

Gazer or Gezer = "portion" a Levitical city on the border of Ephraim Also named: gov (גֹּב "Gob" H1359)

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GREEK · G9804

ψωμός

psōmos — a morsel

a morsel, bit , ψωμοὶ ἀνδρόμεοι gobbets of man's flesh, Virgil's sanies ac frusta , (Odyssey by Homer); also in (Xenophon Historicus) (ML)

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Historical dictionary entry

A pit, a place mentioned in 2 Sam. 21:18, 19; called also Gezer, in 1 Chr. 20:4.

Scripture references

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.

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