Strong's Hebrew · H1494

גַּזָז

gazâz · gaw-zaz'

cut off (down), poll, shave, (sheep-) shear(-er).

Definition

to cut off; specifically to shear aflock or shave the hair; figuratively to destroy an enemy

Derivation

a primitive root (akin to H1468 (גּוּז));

Appears 15 times in Scripture

Genesis 38:13

When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”

1 Samuel 25:11

Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”

Genesis 31:19

Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

1 Samuel 25:4

While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.

2 Samuel 13:24

And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”

Genesis 38:12

After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.

2 Samuel 13:23

Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.

1 Samuel 25:7

Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.

Deuteronomy 15:19

You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.

1 Samuel 25:2

Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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