Strong's Hebrew · H1377

H1377 gᵉbîyrâh

גְּבִירָה

gheb-ee-raw'

queen

Looking for Greek G1377 diṓkō? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H1377. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.

gᵉbîyrâh appears 6 times in Scripture, in 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles and Jeremiah. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

a mistress

In the King James Version

queen.

Derivation

feminine of H1376 (גְּבִיר);

Appears 6 times in Scripture

1 Kings 15:13

“He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.”

2 Chronicles 15:16

“King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.”

1 Kings 11:19

“There Hadad found such great favor in the sight of Pharaoh that he gave to him in marriage the sister of Queen Tahpenes, his own wife.”

Jeremiah 13:18

“Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.””

Jeremiah 29:2

“(This was after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the court officials, the officials of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metalsmiths had been exiled from Jerusalem.)”

2 Kings 10:13

“Jehu met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?” “We are relatives of Ahaziah,” they answered, “and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and of the queen mother.””

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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