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Strong's H1397 גֶּבֶר (geber)

Geber means “man” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G1397 — douleia (“bondage”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H1397
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 64
Books 18

Strong's H1397 Quick Answer

Strong's H1397 גֶּבֶר (geber) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. geber (gheh'-ber) n-m. 1. (properly) a valiant man or warrior 2. (generally) a person simply It has 64 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include man, mighty, one, man's, and person. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
geber (gheh'-ber) n-m. 1. (properly) a valiant man or warrior 2. (generally) a person simply
Usage
64 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
man, mighty, one, man's, and person

Meaning and Definition

geber (gheh'-ber) n-m. 1. (properly) a valiant man or warrior 2. (generally) a person simply [from H1396] KJV: every one, man, X mighty. Root(s): H1396

Original Word
גֶּבֶר
Transliteration
geber
Derivation
Root: גבר First root strongs: 1396
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1397. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H1397 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render geber, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

How Strong's H1397 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 64 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H1397 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H1397 in the Old Testament

64 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Exodus 10:11 KJV

Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

Exodus 12:37 KJV

And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.

Numbers 24:3 KJV

And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:

Usage Excerpts

First 64 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1397.

Exodus 10:11 Old Testament, KJV
Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
Exodus 12:37 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
Numbers 24:3 Old Testament, KJV
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
Numbers 24:15 Old Testament, KJV
And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:
Deuteronomy 22:5 Old Testament, KJV
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Joshua 7:14 Old Testament, KJV
In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.
Joshua 7:17 Old Testament, KJV
And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
Joshua 7:18 Old Testament, KJV
And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
Judges 5:30 Old Testament, KJV
Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
2 Samuel 23:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,
1 Chronicles 23:3 Old Testament, KJV
Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.
1 Chronicles 24:4 Old Testament, KJV
And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar, and thus were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers.
1 Chronicles 26:12 Old Testament, KJV
Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the LORD.
Job 3:3 Old Testament, KJV
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Job 3:23 Old Testament, KJV
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Job 4:17 Old Testament, KJV
Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Job 10:5 Old Testament, KJV
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
Job 14:10 Old Testament, KJV
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Job 14:14 Old Testament, KJV
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
Job 16:21 Old Testament, KJV
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
Job 22:2 Old Testament, KJV
Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
Job 33:17 Old Testament, KJV
That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Job 33:29 Old Testament, KJV
Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man,
Job 34:7 Old Testament, KJV
What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?
Job 34:9 Old Testament, KJV
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Job 34:34 Old Testament, KJV
Let men of understanding tell me, and let a wise man hearken unto me.
Job 38:3 Old Testament, KJV
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Job 40:7 Old Testament, KJV
Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
Psalms 34:8 Old Testament, KJV
O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
Psalms 37:23 Old Testament, KJV
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
Psalms 40:4 Old Testament, KJV
Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Psalms 52:7 Old Testament, KJV
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Psalms 88:4 Old Testament, KJV
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
Psalms 89:48 Old Testament, KJV
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
Psalms 94:12 Old Testament, KJV
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
Psalms 127:5 Old Testament, KJV
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Psalms 128:4 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the LORD.
Proverbs 6:34 Old Testament, KJV
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Proverbs 20:24 Old Testament, KJV
Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
Proverbs 24:5 Old Testament, KJV
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
Proverbs 28:3 Old Testament, KJV
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
Proverbs 28:21 Old Testament, KJV
To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
Proverbs 29:5 Old Testament, KJV
A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.
Proverbs 30:1 Old Testament, KJV
The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,
Proverbs 30:19 Old Testament, KJV
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Isaiah 22:17 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.
Jeremiah 17:5 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Jeremiah 17:7 Old Testament, KJV
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
Jeremiah 22:30 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
Jeremiah 23:9 Old Testament, KJV
Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
Jeremiah 30:6 Old Testament, KJV
Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Jeremiah 31:22 Old Testament, KJV
How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
Jeremiah 41:16 Old Testament, KJV
Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:
Jeremiah 43:6 Old Testament, KJV
Even men, and women, and children, and the king's daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
Jeremiah 44:20 Old Testament, KJV
Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer, saying,
Lamentations 3:1 Old Testament, KJV
I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Lamentations 3:27 Old Testament, KJV
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Lamentations 3:35 Old Testament, KJV
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
Lamentations 3:39 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
Daniel 8:15 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.
Joel 2:8 Old Testament, KJV
Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
Micah 2:2 Old Testament, KJV
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
Habakkuk 2:5 Old Testament, KJV
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
Zechariah 13:7 Old Testament, KJV
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1397, grouped by book.

Exodus 2 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Old Testament
Joshua 3 usages, Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 3 usages, Old Testament
Job 15 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 9 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 8 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Jeremiah 9 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 4 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H1397 FAQ

What does geber (גֶּבֶר) mean?

Geber (Strong's H1397) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "man". geber (gheh'-ber) n-m. 1. (properly) a valiant man or warrior 2. (generally) a person simply

How many times is geber (גֶּבֶר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 64 linked usages for Strong's H1397 across 18 books.

Where can I study geber (גֶּבֶר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1397 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate geber (גֶּבֶר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as man, mighty, one, man's, person, and every. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.