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# גְּדוּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1416

**band** — used 31 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

band [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1416/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גְּדוּד: n.m. band, troop [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1416/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 49:19 band, troop (as making inroads; others, as a division, detachment (as severed), but this usually later in Heb.)—ג׳ abs. 1 S 30:8 + 19 times; cstr. 2 Ch 25:9; pl. גְּדוּדִים 2 S 4:2 + 2 times; cstr. גְּדוּדֵי 2 K 6:23 + 6 times; sf. גְּדוּדָיו Jb 19:12; 25:3;— marauding band (making incursions, inroads, cf. גדד) 1 S 30:8, 15(×2), 23 cf. 1 Ch 12:22, also 2 Ch 22:1 1 K 11:24 2 K 5:2; 6:23; 13:20, 21; 24:2(×4) cf. 2 S 22:30 = ψ 18:30, & Gn 49:19 (v. גַּד 30:11) Ho 6:9; 7:1 Je 18:22; שָׂרֵי גְּדוּדִים 2 S 4:2, cf. וַיִּתְּנֵם בְּרָאשֵׁי הַגְּדוּד 1 Ch 12:19; fig. of God’s attacking forces, his chastisements Jb 19:12 (cf. 25:3 infr.) troop, of divisions of army of Isr. (late) גְּדוּדֵי צְבָא מִלְחָמָה 1 Ch 7:4, cf. 2 Ch 26:11; band of Israel, i.e. troop of mercenaries hired from Isr. by Amaziah 2 Ch 25:9, 10; בְּנֵי הַגְּדוּד i.e. soldiers of the band 2 Ch 25:13; of army in general כְּמֶלֶךְ בַּגְּדוּד Jb 29:25, in sim.; also Mi 4:14 בַּת־גְּדוּד of Zion. foray, raid 2 S 3:22.

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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: band (6); the marauding bands (6); a marauding band (3).

## In the verses

[Genesis 49:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.19/#tree)

גָּ֖ד גְּד֣וּד יְגוּדֶ֑נּוּ וְה֖וּא יָגֻ֥ד עָקֵֽב׃ס

*Word for word:* Gad a.marauding.band it will.attack.him and he he.will.attack a.rearguard

*JPS 1917:* Gad, a troop shall troop upon him; but he shall troop upon their heel.

[Job 25:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.25.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.25.3/#tree)

הֲיֵ֣שׁ מִ֭סְפָּר לִגְדוּדָ֑יו וְעַל־מִ֝֗י לֹא־יָק֥וּם אוֹרֵֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\] there? number to troops his and on whom? not does.it.rise light his

*JPS 1917:* Is there any number of His armies? And upon whom doth not His light arise?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1416.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1416/): 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).