King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H1360
Transliteration: gebe
Phonetic Spelling: (geh'-beh)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a cistern, pool
Meaning: a reservoir, a marsh
Word Summary
gebe: a cistern, pool
Original Word: גֶּבֶאTransliteration: gebe
Phonetic Spelling: (geh'-beh)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a cistern, pool
Meaning: a reservoir, a marsh
Strong's Concordance
marish, pit From an unused root meaning probably to collect; a reservoir; by analogy, a marsh -- marish, pit.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H1360. gebe
גֶּ֫בֶא noun masculineEzekiel 47:11 cistern, pool (compare Arabic watering-trough) —
1 cistern מִגֶּ֑בֶא מַיִם Isaiah 30:14.
2 pool, marsh גְּבָיָאו Ezekiel 47:11 ("" כִּצּאֹתָ֯ו).
גבב (probably be curved, convex, elevated, Aramaic גִּבְּבָא hill; be or make hollow, dig, Arabic cut off or out, , Aramaic גֹּב, Ethiopic , Assyrian gubbu, — all = cistern; compare e.g. Assyrian gubbâni ša mê, cisterns of water, AsrbAnnals Col. viii. 102, KBii. 220; see proper name גֹּב below)