Strong’s H1488 · Hebrew
גֵּז
gêz · gaze
Origin from גַּזָז (H1494);
Meaning a fleece (as shorn); also mown grass
In the King James Version fleece, mowing, mown grass.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Deuteronomy 18:4The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
- Job 31:20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
- Psalms 72:6He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
- Amos 7:1Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.