# גַּזָז (gazaz)

Israeli respelling: ga-zaz. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1494. 15 Old Testament occurrences.

to cut off; specifically to shear aflock or shave the hair; figuratively to destroy an enemy

King James renderings: cut off (down), poll, shave, (sheep-) shear(-er).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/gazaz-h1494

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 31:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/19) — And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.
- [Genesis 38:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/38/12) — And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he…
- [Genesis 38:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/38/13) — And it was told Tamar, saying, Behold thy father in law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep.
- [Deuteronomy 15:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/15/19) — All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the fi…
- [1 Samuel 25:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/2) — And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand…
- [1 Samuel 25:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/4) — And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
- [1 Samuel 25:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/7) — And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither was there ought missing unto…
- [1 Samuel 25:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/25/11) — Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence the…
- [2 Samuel 13:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/23) — And it came to pass after two full years, that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baalhazor, which is beside Ephraim: and Absalom invited all the…
- [2 Samuel 13:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/13/24) — And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with…
- [Job 1:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/1/20) — Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
- [Isaiah 53:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/53/7) — He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her sh…
- [Jeremiah 7:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/7/29) — Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the ge…
- [Micah 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/1/16) — Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
- [Nahum 1:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/1/12) — Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have af…