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          gab - body, esp. back
            (Jastrow 203)
        
       
     
   
    
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      pl. fem.; lit. ‘g. of the eyes’
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
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          gab - eye-brow; the elevation around genitals
            (Jastrow 203)
        
       
     
   
    
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          gēb - pit, ditch
            (HALOT 170)
        
       
     
   
 
          
  
    
      
        
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          gibbēăḥ - with receding hair-line
            (HALOT 173)
        
       
     
   
 
          
  
    
      
        
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          gabbaḥat - receding hair-line; bare spot
            (HALOT 173)
        
       
     
   
 
          
  
    
      
        
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          gəbūl - boundary, territory
            (HALOT 171)
        
       
     
   
 
          
  
    
      
        
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          gibbēn - hunchbacked
            (HALOT 174)
        
       
     
   
    
      A hapax whose alternative interpretation is ‘one having defective eyebrow’; though in most Hebrew dictionaries this word is interpreted as ‘humpbacked’, the context of Lv 21: 20 rather suggests a defect in the eye area.
    
 
          
  
    
      
        
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          gibbēn - one having defective eyebrow (?)
            (HALOT 174)
        
       
     
   
    
      The context of Lv 21: 20 rather points to this meaning (cf. [Ja. 207]); usually
understood as ‘hump-backed’.