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HebrewH6100Noun

עֶצְיוֹן גֶּ֫בֶר

ets.yon ge.ver

6Occurrences
H6100Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Etsjon-Geber, a place on the Red Sea

from H6096 (עָצֶה) and H1397 (גֶּבֶר); backbone-like of a man;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Ezion-geber = "backbone of a man" the last station during the exodus of the Israelites before they came to the wilderness of Zin; located near Elath at the head of the Gulf of Akaba

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

עֶצְיוֹן גֶּ֫בֶר appears 6 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Chronicles
2
Numbers
2
1 Kings
1
Deuteronomy
1

Key Passages

1 Kings 9:26BSB

King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.

2 Chronicles 20:36BSB

They agreed to make ships to go to Tarshish, and these were built in Ezion-geber.

2 Chronicles 8:17BSB

Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber and to Eloth on the coast of Edom.

Deuteronomy 2:8BSB

So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber, and traveled along the road of the Wilderness of Moab.

Numbers 33:35BSB

They set out from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.