Lexicon
גֵּזֶל
ge.zel
H1499
H:N-M Hebrew

violence

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Hebrew
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ge.zel denotes violent wrongdoing, appearing in a setting of wrongful acts and in an unclear construct phrase.

The attested use points to violent wrongdoing: Ezekiel 18:18 places the construct noun within an account of a father's harmful conduct, while Ecclesiastes 5:7 preserves it in a construct phrase whose specific contribution is not clear from the translation.

Senses in use

  1. Violent wrongdoing · dominant

    In Ezekiel 18:18, the construct noun occurs in the account of a father who practiced harmful conduct among his people; the APB renders the verse with “extortion” and “robbery,” though the translation does not identify which wording corresponds to this noun. In Ecclesiastes 5:7, the same construct form stands in a phrase that the APB renders “in abundance of dreams and vanities and many words”; its specific contribution cannot be isolated from that rendering.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents Ezekiel 18:18 through “extortion” and “robbery,”. In Ecclesiastes 5:7, the noun's contribution is not separately visible in the translation.

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