English Bible words starting with G
478 meanings beginning with G, in alphabetical order. This is page 4 of 5. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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goings1 word
goings out1 word
Golan1 word
gold8 words
- zahavזָהָבgold: the bright, heavy metal that does not tarnish, and the wealth and worth measured by it
- chrusionχρυσίονgold: the precious metal, most often as it has already been refined, shaped, or coined
- chrusosχρυσόςgold: the precious metal named plainly, whether as raw material, as money, or as the temple's treasure
- dehavדְּהַבgold: the precious yellow metal, whether as raw treasure, worked objects, or an idol's material
- ḥarutsחָרוּץgold: a poetic word for the precious metal
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- sharp, cut: a sharp-toothed threshing sledge, or a body cut and mutilated
- diligent: keen and industrious in effort, the opposite of the lazy
- decision: a sharp verdict handed down
gold jewelry1 word
gold-ringed1 word
golden2 words
goldsmith2 words
Golgotha1 word
Goliath1 word
Gomer1 word
Gomorrah2 words
gone1 word
good7 words
- agathosἀγαθόςgood: the ordinary word for what is sound, worthwhile, and beneficial, whether a person, a thing, an action, or a gift
- tovטוֹבgood: fittingly answering to what a thing, a person, or a relationship is meant to be, so that it is sound, pleasing, right, or beneficial
- kalosκαλόςfine, good, and admirable: measuring up to what its kind should be, in a way that is often meant to be seen and honored
- kalōsκαλῶςwell: in a good, right, or fitting way
- chrēstosχρηστόςgood in a way that benefits whoever meets it: kind toward people, easy to bear, mellow rather than harsh
good deed1 word
good fortune1 word
good news2 words
- euangelionεὐαγγέλιονthe good news: God's saving announcement that, in Jesus Christ, he has acted to rescue and to reign
- besvorahבְּשֹׂרָהgood news: the report a messenger carries, the kind of word a runner is sent to deliver
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- the reward paid to a messenger for bringing good news: a runner's fee
good pleasure1 word
good report1 word
good things1 word
good-looking1 word
- ro'iרֳאִיsight as a thing in itself, without settling who is doing the looking: seeing, the look a person has, or something others stare at
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- the one who sees me: the person whose eyes are on the speaker
- ro'iרֳאִיsight as a thing in itself, without settling who is doing the looking: seeing, the look a person has, or something others stare at
goodly1 word
goodness4 words
- ḥesedחֶסֶדloyal, steadfast love: kindness freely shown to someone in real need, kept faithfully within a relationship.
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- a disgrace, a shameful thing; a reproach.
- chrēstotēsχρηστότηςkindness: warm goodness of heart that actively does good for another
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- moral goodness in conduct: the doing of what is right and good
- tuvטוּבa store of good things: actual goods and produce, prosperity and well-being, fine quality, or, above all, God's own generous goodness
- agathōsunēἀγαθωσύνηgoodness: an upright moral character that shows itself in actively doing good to others
- ḥesedחֶסֶדloyal, steadfast love: kindness freely shown to someone in real need, kept faithfully within a relationship.
goods7 words
- skeuosσκεῦοςa made object put to use: most often a vessel or container, and by extension one's belongings or a person shaped for a purpose
- huparchōὑπάρχωpossessions: the goods, property, or belongings that a person has
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- to be: to exist or be in a certain state, often with a sense that the condition is already settled or true by nature
- biosβίοςthe earthly life a person actually lives: its stretch of years, its course, and the way it is spent
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- the means of living: the property and resources a person has to live on
- tuvטוּבa store of good things: actual goods and produce, prosperity and well-being, fine quality, or, above all, God's own generous goodness
- rekhushרְכוּשׁmovable property: the goods, livestock, and belongings a person or group owns and can carry
goodwill1 word
gopher1 word
gopher wood1 word
gore1 word
gorge2 words
gorgeous2 words
goring1 word
Goshen1 word
gospel1 word
gossip3 words
gossipy1 word
gourd3 words
govern5 words
- shaphatשָׁפַטto judge: to exercise rightful authority over a person or dispute and set it right, whether by deciding a case, ruling a people, defending the wronged, or punishing the guilty
- hēgeomaiἡγέομαιto lead a community: to go in front of others as their guide and head
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- to consider: to reach a deliberate, weighed verdict about the worth or truth of something
- mashalמָשַׁלto rule: to hold and actively exercise authority over someone or something
- dinדִּיןto take up a cause and rule on it: to render and carry out a verdict, most often by securing justice for the wronged
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- to remain, abide: a contested reading found only at Genesis 6:3, and probably a different word from the verb to judge above
- hēgemoneuōἡγεμονεύωto governnot studied yet
governing1 word
- huperechōὑπερέχωto hold the higher station: to be in authority, to be the ruling power over others
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- to surpass: to be greater than something else in worth, standing, or degree
- huperechōὑπερέχωto hold the higher station: to be in authority, to be the ruling power over others
governments1 word
governor9 words
- hēgemōnἡγεμώνa governing leader set over a region; in the New Testament chiefly the Roman provincial governor
- nagidנָגִידa leader: the one placed out front and at the head of others, with the authority to direct them
- peḥahפֶּחָהa governor: an official a king or empire appoints to administer a province or command a region on the ruler's behalf
- netsivנְצִיבa garrison: armed men planted in a place to hold it for the ruler who put them there
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- a royal deputy: a man the king has set over a district to answer for it
- a pillar: something left standing fixed in one place
- peḥahפֶּחָהa governor: the official an empire appoints to run a province or region on the king's behalf
governor's headquarters1 word
- praitōrionπραιτώριονthe Roman governor's official headquarters in a province: the building he lived and worked in, with its soldiers, its holding cells, and the seat where he tried cases.
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- the emperor's own guard: the elite body of soldiers stationed at imperial headquarters, spoken of as a group of men rather than a place.
- praitōrionπραιτώριονthe Roman governor's official headquarters in a province: the building he lived and worked in, with its soldiers, its holding cells, and the seat where he tried cases.
governors1 word
Gozan1 word
grace2 words
- charisχάριςgraceful charm: the winning, attractive quality of speech
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- favor freely shown by someone who is free to give it, and that favor made real in a gift, a standing, or a power at work in the one who receives it
- thanks: the grateful return owed for kindness received
- ḥenחֵןgracious favor freely shown by someone with power to someone without a claim on it, and the attractive quality that draws such favor out
- charisχάριςgraceful charm: the winning, attractive quality of speech
gracious5 words
- charisχάριςfavor freely shown by someone who is free to give it, and that favor made real in a gift, a standing, or a power at work in the one who receives it
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- thanks: the grateful return owed for kindness received
- graceful charm: the winning, attractive quality of speech
- ḥenחֵןgracious favor freely shown by someone with power to someone without a claim on it, and the attractive quality that draws such favor out
- hileōsἵλεωςpropitious/graciousnot studied yet
- ḥannunחַנּוּןgracious: characteristically and freely inclined to turn toward the needy with real help
- raḥumרַחוּםcompassionate: moved with tender, parent-like mercy toward someone in need
- charisχάριςfavor freely shown by someone who is free to give it, and that favor made real in a gift, a standing, or a power at work in the one who receives it
graft in1 word
grain11 words
- zeraזֶרַעoffspring: the descendants a person leaves behind, held together as one ongoing line rather than counted as separate children.
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- seed: what a plant produces to reproduce itself, together with the sowing of it and the crop it yields.
- semen: the male emission from which a child is conceived.
- sitosσῖτοςwheat: the cereal grain harvested for bread, and by extension grain as a stored or traded food staple
- daganדָּגָןgrain: the harvested cereal crop, chiefly wheat and barley, that a land yields for food
- gorenגֹּרֶןa threshing floor: the flat, open patch of hard ground where cut grain is beaten loose and tossed into the wind to clean it.
- barבַּרgrain: the threshed kernel of a cereal harvest, the clean part that is heaped up, measured, stored, and sold
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- the open country: unfenced, untilled land where wild animals live
- zeraזֶרַעoffspring: the descendants a person leaves behind, held together as one ongoing line rather than counted as separate children.
grain ration1 word
grainfield1 word
granary4 words
grandmother1 word
grant6 words
- didōmiδίδωμιto give: to transfer something from one person to another, whether an object, a gift, a right, or a charge.
- charizōχαρίζωto give, grant, or forgive freely as an act of grace, expecting nothing in return
- yahavיָהַבgive: hand something over, grant it, or credit it to someone, always as a command or urgent request
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- come now!: a call urging others (or oneself) to get on with an action, often "come, let us..."
- yehavיְהַבto give: to hand something over to another, whether as a gift granted, a charge delivered into someone's power, a foundation laid, or a payment made
- qarahקָרָהto meet or befall: for a person or an event to come to someone, whether by design or by chance
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- to lay beams; to roof a building by setting its wooden beams in place
grant justice1 word
grape1 word
grape gathering1 word
grape harvest1 word
grapes3 words
grapevine1 word
grasp5 words
- krateōκρατέωto take hold of: lay hands on a person or thing and grasp it
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- to hold fast: keep a firm grip on something so as not to let it go
- to hold in one's power: keep something in a grip it cannot break free of
- katalambanōκαταλαμβάνωto grasp with the mind: to come to realize, perceive, or understand something.
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- to lay hold of and make your own: to reach and seize a goal you have been chasing.
- to overtake and seize by force: to catch up with someone or something and take hold of it, often as an enemy or a disaster does.
- to catch someone in the act, especially of wrongdoing.
- aḥazאָחַזto grasp: to close the hand on something and hold it fast
- tamakhתָּמַךְto take firm hold: to grasp something, to hold a person up so they do not fall, or to keep a tight grip on what is valued
- qamatsקָמַץto graspnot studied yet
- krateōκρατέωto take hold of: lay hands on a person or thing and grasp it
grass7 words
- chortosχόρτοςgrass: the low green plants that carpet open ground, including the young blade of a grain crop and, once cut and dried, hay
- esevעֵשֶׂבthe green, seed-bearing plants of the ground: herbs, low growth, and field crops, as opposed to trees
- ḥatsirחָצִירgrass: the green herbage of the field, the fodder that springs up and quickly dries away
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- leek: the edible green onion-like plant remembered from Egypt
- desheדֶּשֶׁאthe first tender flush of fresh green growth that springs from the ground after rain.
- ashעָשׁgrass: the green growth of an open field, what grazing animals feed on
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- a moth: the small insect whose grub eats holes through stored cloth
grasshopper2 words
grate1 word
gratification1 word
gratitude1 word
grave9 words
- Hadēsᾍδηςthe realm of the dead: where everyone goes when they die, pictured as a temporary holding place until the resurrection
- taphosτάφοςa grave: the place where a dead body is laid, named from the act of burying it
- qeverקֶבֶרa grave: the place where a dead body is laid to rest
- borבּוֹרa pit dug or hewn into the ground: a cistern for water, a hole that holds a person or traps an animal, and, in poetry, the grave.
- mnēmeionμνημεῖονa tomb: the place where a dead body is laid to rest
graveclothes1 word
gravel1 word
graven image2 words
graven work1 word
gray hair1 word
graze2 words
- ra'ahרָעָהto tend a flock: to lead grazing animals out, guard them, and bring them to food and water
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- to keep company with someone: to associate with a person as a friend or companion
- boskōβόσκωto put animals out to feed: to keep a grazing herd supplied with food, or, of the herd, to be out eating
- ra'ahרָעָהto tend a flock: to lead grazing animals out, guard them, and bring them to food and water
grazing1 word
grazing land1 word
great15 words
- polusπολύςlarge in number or amount: many, much, great
- megasμέγαςgreat: far above the ordinary measure of its kind, whether in size, force, amount, or importance
- gadolגָּדוֹלgreat: large in size, high in degree, or high in rank, depending on what it describes
- ravרַבgreat, abundant: large in degree, strength, or extent
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- many, numerous: large in number or amount
- chief, captain: a high officer ranking over others
- hikanosἱκανόςreaching the needed measure: enough, in amount, for a need, or for a role
great man3 words
great number1 word
great things1 word
great toe1 word
great tree2 words
greater3 words
- megasμέγαςgreat: far above the ordinary measure of its kind, whether in size, force, amount, or importance
- pleiōn, pleionπλείων, πλεῖονmore, greater: the comparative of "much/many", used of number, amount, value, or extent
- kreissōnκρείσσωνbetter: superior in worth, rank, or benefit when weighed against something else
greatly5 words
- me'odמְאֹדmuchness pushed to the limit: the quality of being abundant or forceful, used almost always to mean very or exceedingly
- ravahרָבָהto become many or much: to grow in number, amount, or extent
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- to make many or much: to multiply something, increase it, or supply it in great quantity
- to shoot with a bow; to be an archer
- lianλίανgreatlynot studied yet
- megalōsμεγάλωςgreatlynot studied yet
- saggiשַׂגִּיאmuch, many, great: a lot of something, measuring how much there is rather than how high it ranks
greatly desire1 word
greatly rejoice2 words
greatly wondering1 word
greatness6 words
- rovרֹבa great amount: a large number of things, or a large degree of something
- megethosμέγεθοςgreatnessnot studied yet
- godelגֹּדֶלgreatness as a quantity you can point to: how great someone or something is, whether God's displayed majesty, a towering tree, or a heart swollen with its own importance
- gedulahגְּדוּלָּהgreatness: the towering stature of God or the high standing of a person, together with the great deeds and public honor that make it visible
- marbitמַרְבִּיתgreatnessnot studied yet
greave1 word
Greece2 words
greed2 words
greedily1 word
greediness1 word
greedy2 words
greedy for gain1 word
- batsaבָּצַעto gain unjustly: to grab dishonest profit at another's expense; to be greedy for gain
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- to cut off: to sever a piece decisively from a whole, and so to bring a life or thing to an abrupt end
- to bring to completion: to carry a work through to its decisive finish
- batsaבָּצַעto gain unjustly: to grab dishonest profit at another's expense; to be greedy for gain
greek3 words
green5 words
- ra'ananרַעֲנָןluxuriant, green, and fresh: full of the moist, living vigor of a well-watered tree in full leaf
- chlōrosχλωρόςgreennot studied yet
- hugrosὑγρόςmoist/greennot studied yet
- yereqיֶרֶקgreen growth: everything on the land that is alive and green, taken together as one class
- yaroqיָרוֹקgreennot studied yet
green ears1 word
green figs1 word
green herb1 word
green pastures1 word
green plants1 word
green thing1 word