גָּזַז

Genesis 31:19 לִגְזֹ֖ז to shear

Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

Here: An infinitive of purpose: he had gone in order to shear. Shearing was a seasonal event that took an owner away from home, often to distant pastures, and it was usually a time of feasting.

Genesis 38:12 גֹּֽזֲזֵ֤י [the] shearers of

After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah.

Genesis 38:13 לָגֹ֥ז to shear

When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”

Deuteronomy 15:19 תָגֹ֖ז you will shear

You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.

Here: To clip the fleece for wool (or goat hair). Shearing was the flock's main source of income, so this bans making money from the holy animal while it is alive.

1 Samuel 25:2 בִּגְזֹ֥ז when sheared

Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.

Here: 'In (the time of) shearing'. The verb form has no stated subject, so it marks the season (shearing time) rather than a man personally holding the shears. That season was a festival of plenty, and the story depends on it.

1 Samuel 25:4 גֹזֵ֥ז [was] shearing

While David was in the wilderness, he heard that Nabal was shearing sheep.

1 Samuel 25:7 גֹזְזִ֖ים shearers

Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.

1 Samuel 25:11 לְגֹֽזְזָ֑י for shearers my

Why should I take my bread and water and the meat I have slaughtered for my shearers, and give them to these men whose origin I do not know?”

2 Samuel 13:23 גֹֽזְזִים֙ shearers

Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.

2 Samuel 13:24 גֹזְזִ֖ים shearers

And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”

Here: A participle (a verb form used like a noun or an “-ing” word): “shearers,” men at work cutting fleece. Everyone knew what shearing season meant: a harvest feast with plenty of food and wine.

Job 1:20 וַיָּ֖גָז and he shaved

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

Here: This is the ordinary word for shearing sheep, used here for cutting off the hair of the head. Shaving the head was a common mourning rite, especially for the dead (Jer 7:29; Mic 1:16). It answers the last and worst report, the death of his children.

Isaiah 53:7 גֹזְזֶ֖יהָ shearers its

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

Here: A participle used as a noun: 'those shearing her'. The plural pictures several men working on one animal.

Jeremiah 7:29 גָּזִּ֤י cut off

Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

Micah 1:16 וָגֹ֔זִּי and shear

Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.

Nahum 1:12 נָגֹ֖זּוּ they will be cut down

This is what the LORD says: “Though they are allied and numerous, yet they will be cut down and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, O Judah, I will afflict you no longer.