Gîyach — H1518

Definition

verb

to gush forth (as water), generally to issue

1. to burst forth
1. (Qal)
1. to burst forth
2. to draw forth
3. to bring forth
2. (Hiphil) to break forth

Usually translated as

break forth, labor to bring forth, come forth, draw up, take out

Origin

or (shortened) gôach; a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• epérchomai (G1904)

Occurrences

Gîyach occurs 6 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Judges (1), Job (2), Psalms (1), Ezekiel (1), Micah (1)

• Judges 20:33 — And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth (מֵגִ֥יחַ) out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.
• Job 38:8 — Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth (בְּ֝גִיח֗וֹ), as if it had issued out of the womb?
• Job 40:23 — Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up (יָגִ֖יחַ) Jordan into his mouth.
• Psalms 22:9 — But thou art he that took (גֹחִ֣י) me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
• Ezekiel 32:2 — Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth (וַתָּ֣גַח) with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
• Micah 4:10 — Be in pain, and labour to bring forth (וָגֹ֛חִי), O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the LORD shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.