Geshem — H1655

Definition

masculine noun

used in a peculiar sense, the body (probably for the (figuratively) idea of a hard rain)

1. body

Usually translated as

body

Origin

(Aramaic) apparently the same as H1653

• Same as Geshem (H1653)

Greek equivalents

• sōma (G4983)

Occurrences

Geshem occurs 5 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Daniel (5)

• Daniel 3:27 — And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies (בְּגֶשְׁמְה֗וֹן) the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
• Daniel 3:28 — Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies (גֶשְׁמְה֗וֹן), that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
• Daniel 4:33 — The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body (גִּשְׁמֵ֣הּ) was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
• Daniel 5:21 — And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body (גִּשְׁמֵ֣הּ) was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
• Daniel 7:11 — I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body (גִּשְׁמַ֔הּ) destroyed, and given to the burning flame.