2001 Translation

GAZAN, gazan

Sounds Like: GAH-zan

Translations: Gaza, a treasure, treasure

From the root: ΓΑΖΑ

Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Noun

Explanation: This word can refer to two distinct things: the city of Gaza, a significant city in ancient Philistia, or a store of wealth, a treasury, or treasure itself. When referring to the city, it is a proper noun. When referring to treasure, it is a common noun. Its meaning depends entirely on the context in which it is used.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G1047 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:115, 1:117

Codex Sinaiticus

• Judges — 6:4
• Esther — 4:7
• 1 Maccabees — 11:61, 13:43
• Jeremiah — 32:20
• Acts of the Apostles — 8:26

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 22:184, 22:185, 10:116
• Book Two — 10:116

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 5 — 8:304
• Book 11 — 8:320, 8:325
• Book 13 — 5:150, 15:395
• Book 14 — 4:76
• Book 15 — 7:217
• Book 17 — 11:320

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 5:3, 8:16, 21:11
• Book Two — 18:4

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 10:19
• Judges — 1:18, 6:4, 16:1, 16:21
• Esther — 4:7
• 1 Maccabees — 11:61, 13:43
• Jeremiah — 29:5, 32:6

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 8:26

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΓΑΖΑ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΓΑΖΑ — treasure, a treasure, treasury, riches
• ΓΑΖΑΙΟΙ — Gazites, people of Gaza, inhabitants of Gaza
• ΓΑΖΑΙΣ — treasures, of treasures, to treasures, with treasures, by treasures
• ΓΑΖΑΣΑΝ — treasure, a treasure
• ΓΑΖΗΣ — of Gaza
• ΓΑΖΙΤΑΙ — Gazites, inhabitants of Gaza

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