Hebrew word · H1522
גֵּיחֲזִי
geichazi
Gehazi
Appears 12 times in 12 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.4.12
§ Gehazi = "valley of vision"
the servant of Elisha
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
Where it appears
2 Kings · 12
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2 Kings 4:12 גֵּחֲזִ֣י Gehazi
And he said to Gehazi his servant, “Call the Shunammite woman.” And when he had called her, she stood before him,
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2 Kings 4:14 גֵּיחֲזִ֗י Gehazi
So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” “Well, she has no son,” Gehazi replied, “and her husband is old.”
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2 Kings 4:25 גֵּיחֲזִ֣י Gehazi
So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, there is the Shunammite woman.
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2 Kings 4:27 גֵּֽיחֲזִ֜י Gehazi
When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”
Here: Elisha's servant, the one she has just put off with a curt "shalom" (v. 26).
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2 Kings 4:29 לְגֵיחֲזִ֜י to Gehazi
So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.”
Here: Gehazi is Elisha's personal servant (called his na'ar, 'lad/attendant', in 4:12). He is the one who just tried to push the grieving woman away (v. 27), and he is now sent ahead as Elisha's stand-in.
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2 Kings 4:31 וְגֵחֲזִ֞י and Gehazi
Gehazi went on ahead of them and laid the staff on the boy’s face, but there was no sound or response. So he went back to meet Elisha and told him, “The boy has not awakened.”
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2 Kings 4:36 גֵּיחֲזִ֗י Gehazi
Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”
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2 Kings 5:20 גֵּיחֲזִ֗י Gehazi
Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman, by not accepting what he brought. As surely as the LORD lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”
Here: Elisha's personal attendant, already known from the Shunammite stories (2 Kings 4). The name is usually linked to a root meaning "valley of vision", but nothing reliable can be built on that.
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2 Kings 5:21 גֵּיחֲזִ֖י Gehazi
So Gehazi pursued Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running toward him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and asked, “Is everything all right?”
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2 Kings 5:25 גֵּחֲזִ֑י O Gehazi
When Gehazi went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Gehazi, where have you been?” “Your servant did not go anywhere,” he replied.
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2 Kings 8:4 גֵּ֣חֲזִ֔י Gehazi
Now the king had been speaking to Gehazi, the servant of the man of God, saying, “Please relate to me all the great things Elisha has done.”
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2 Kings 8:5 גֵּֽחֲזִי֙ Gehazi
And Gehazi was telling the king how Elisha had brought the dead back to life. Just then the woman whose son Elisha had revived came to appeal to the king for her house and her land. So Gehazi said, “My lord the king, this is the woman, and this is the son Elisha restored to life.”
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