גת
Hebrew
Pronunciation
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /ɡat/
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Etymology 1
Cognate with Ugaritic 𐎂𐎚 (gt).
Noun
גַּת • (gat) f (plural indefinite גיתות / גִּתּוֹת or גיתים / גִּתִּים, singular construct גַּת־) [pattern: קֶטֶל]
- winepress
- Tanach, Judges 6:11, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- וַיָּבֹא מַלְאַךְ יְהֹוָה וַיֵּשֶׁב תַּחַת הָאֵלָה אֲשֶׁר בְּעׇפְרָה אֲשֶׁר לְיוֹאָשׁ אֲבִי הָעֶזְרִי וְגִדְעוֹן בְּנוֹ חֹבֵט חִטִּים בַּגַּת לְהָנִיס מִפְּנֵי מִדְיָן׃
- And the angel of the LORD came, and sat under the terebinth which was in Ophrah, that belonged unto Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
Declension
| isolated forms | with possessive pronouns | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number: | State: | form | Person: | singular | plural | ||
| m | f | m | f | ||||
| singular | indefinite | גַּת | first | גִּתִּי | גִּתֵּנוּ | ||
| definite | הַגַּת | second | גִּתְּךָ | גִּתֵּךְ | גִּתְּכֶם | גִּתְּכֶן | |
| construct | גַּת־ | third | גִּתּוֹ | גִּתָּהּ | גִּתָּם | גִּתָּן | |
| plural | indefinite | גִּתּוֹת | first | גתותיי / גִּתּוֹתַי | גִּתּוֹתֵינוּ | ||
| definite | הַגִּתּוֹת | second | גִּתּוֹתֶיךָ | גתותייך / גִּתּוֹתַיִךְ | גִּתּוֹתֵיכֶם | גִּתּוֹתֵיכֶן | |
| construct | גִּתּוֹת־ | third | גִּתּוֹתָיו | גִּתּוֹתֶיהָ | גִּתּוֹתָם | גִּתּוֹתָן | |
References
- H1660 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Klein, Ernest (1987) “גַּת”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 111c
- Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 274b
- “גת” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
Proper noun
גַּת • (gat) f
- Gath, one of the cities of the Philistine Pentapolis, home of Goliath
Derived terms
- אל תגידו בגת
References
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Arabic قَات (qāt).
Noun
גָּת • (gat) f (no plural forms)