Lexicon
גָּבֶר
ga.ver
H1397
H:N-M Hebrew

great man

65
Occurrences
18
Books
Hebrew
Language

ga.ver denotes a male person, used of individual men and groups of men in varied settings.

The term most often denotes a male person, whether an individual addressed, described, or contrasted with a woman, or men considered as a group. The supplied verses apply it in legal instruction, personal speech, poetic reflection, leadership lists, and descriptions of groups, without requiring a separate lexical sense for singular and plural forms.

Senses in use

  1. Male person or men · dominant

    The common masculine singular form occurs in clauses concerning a man’s clothing in Deuteronomy 22:5, a man’s trust in Jeremiah 17:5, and a man who bears the yoke in Lamentations 3:27; in each case the APB renders the surrounding clause with “man.” The masculine plural form identifies groups in Exodus 10:11 and 1 Chronicles 23:3, where the APB renders “the men” and “the men” counted among the Levites. In Daniel 8:15, the singular form is used for one standing before Daniel, whom the APB describes as having the appearance of a “great man.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB commonly presents the surrounding clauses with “man,” “men,” or “great man,” including singular individuals and plural groups. Since the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings do not isolate the term token by token.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture