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# גָּג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1406

**roof** — used 30 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

roof [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1406/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּג: n.m. roof, top [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1406/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. roof, top (NH id.; Di comp. Ethiopic ጋግ, ጋጋ vinculum (ferreum), jugo simil. collare ferreum; √ dub.; Thes proposes גנג; perhaps גנג (= גנגן) cover Bö§ 292 Sta§ 189 a MV)—גָּג Jos 2:6 + 9 times + 1 S 9:26 Kt (Qr גָּ֫גָה), גָּ֫גָה Jos 2:6 1 S 9:26 Qr (Kt גג); cstr. Ju 9:51 + 2 times + Ez 40:13 (del. Co v. infr.); sf. גַּגֶּ֑ךָ Dt 22:8, גַּגּוֹ Ex 30:3 + 2 times + Ez 40:13 (del. Co v. infr.); pl. גַּגּוֹת Is 37:27 + 5 times; sf. גַּגּוֹתֶיהָ Is 15:3, גַּגּוֹתֵיהֶם Je 32:29, גַּגֹּתֵיהֶם Je 19:13;— roof (of house) Dt 22:8 Jos 2:6(×2), 8 Ju 16:27 1 S 9:25, 26 2 S 11:2(×2); 16:22 2 K 19:26 = Is 37:27, Ne 8:16 ψ 102:8; 129:6 Pr 21:9; 25:24 Is 15:3; 22:1 Je 48:38; as places of idolatrous worship (especially of heavenly bodies) Je 19:13; 32:29 Zp 1:5; so הַגָּג עֲלִיַּת אָחָז 2 K 23:12, roof of tower Ju 9:51, over gate 2 S 18:24, of chamber Ez 40:13(×2) (but 𝔊 Co קיר). top of altar of incense, in tabern. Ex 30:3; 37:26 (both P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 27 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: roof (10); roofs (5); the roof (4).

## In the verses

[Psalms 102:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.8/#tree)

שָׁקַ֥דְתִּי וָאֶֽהְיֶ֑ה כְּ֝צִפּ֗וֹר בּוֹדֵ֥ד עַל־גָּֽג׃

*Word for word:* I.am.wakeful and I.have.become like a.bird isolated on a.roof

*JPS 1917:* I watch, and am become like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.

[Psalms 129:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.129.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.129.6/#tree)

יִ֭הְיוּ כַּחֲצִ֣יר גַּגּ֑וֹת שֶׁקַּדְמַ֖ת שָׁלַ֣ף יָבֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* may.they.be like.\[the\] grass of.roofs which before it.has.shot.up it.has.withered

*JPS 1917:* Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it springeth up;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1406.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1406/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).