A noun meaning the back or the interior of something — the body's torso, the middle of a crowd, or the inward part. Used in expressions of sitting 'in the midst of' or facing something head-on with one's back to fear.
Isaiah uses gev in the famous Servant Song: 'I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard' (Isaiah 50:6). The Servant's willingness to turn his back to the smiters — not fleeing, but in deliberate surrender — is the posture of redemptive suffering. Every lash on the servant's gev anticipates the stripes of the Crucified One. The back that endured the scourging is also the back that bore our burden (Isaiah 53:4). Gev becomes a word of sacrifice, surrender, and ultimately substitutionary love.