Strong's #1494: gazaz (pronounced gaw-zaz')

a primitive root (akin to 1468); to cut off; specifically to shear a flock or shave the hair; figuratively to destroy an enemy:--cut off (down), poll, shave, ((sheep-)) shear(-er).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gâzaz

1) to shear, mow

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to shear

1a2) shearer (participle)

1b) (Niphal) to be cut off, be destroyed

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root [akin to H1468]

Usage:

This word is used 15 times:

 

Genesis 31:19: "And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen"
Genesis 38:12: "and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he"
Genesis 38:13: "thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnath to shear his sheep."
Deuteronomy 15:19: "with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep."
1 Samuel 25:2: "and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel."
1 Samuel 25:4: "that Nabal did shear his sheep."
1 Samuel 25:7: "And now I have heard thou hast shearers: now thy shepherds which were"
1 Samuel 25:11: "and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know"
2 Samuel 13:23: "after two full years, had sheepshearers in Baal-hazor, which is beside"
2 Samuel 13:24: "Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go"
Job 1:20: "his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground,"
Isaiah 53:7: "to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth."
Jeremiah 7:29: " Cut off thine hair, and take up a lamentation on high places; for"
Micah 1:16: "Make thee bald, and poll thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle;"
Nahum 1:12: "and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no"