Lexicon
גַּו
gav
H1459
A:N-M Hebrew

midst

13
Occurrences
2
Books
Hebrew
Language

gav denotes being within an enclosing place, body, city, or written document.

The attested use marks an interior location or what occurs within something: most prominently persons are cast into, walk within, and come out from the fire; it also locates distress within Daniel, rebellion within a city, and writing within documents.

Senses in use

  1. Within an enclosing setting · dominant

    Every supplied token is a common masculine singular construct noun. In Daniel 3:25 the APB renders four men as walking "in the midst of the fire," while Daniel 3:26 describes them as coming out "from the midst of the fire"; the same interior relation is extended to Daniel's body in Daniel 7:15 and to the written contents of a message in Ezra 5:7.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly uses "in the midst of" for the fire and city contexts, and "within" for Daniel's body; in Ezra 5:7 and Ezra 6:2 it places writing "in its midst." Daniel 4:7's "entered" does not isolate an English rendering for the noun.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture