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# גִּדְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1415

**bank** — used 4 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

bank [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1415/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּדָה: n.f. bank [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1415/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. bank of river (cf. Arabic جُدَّةٌ, جِدَّةٌ id., Aramaic גּוּדָּא, wall), גְּדוֹתָיו Jos 3:15; 4:18 1 Ch 12:16 Is 8:7.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: banks (4).

## In the verses

[Joshua 3:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.3.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.3.15/#tree)

וּכְב֞וֹא נֹשְׂאֵ֤י הָֽאָרוֹן֙ עַד־הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ן וְרַגְלֵ֤י הַכֹּֽהֲנִים֙ נֹשְׂאֵ֣י הָֽאָר֔וֹן נִטְבְּל֖וּ בִּקְצֵ֣ה הַמָּ֑יִם וְהַיַּרְדֵּ֗ן מָלֵא֙ עַל־כָּל־גְּדוֹתָ֔יו כֹּ֖ל יְמֵ֥י קָצִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* and just as.came \[those.who\].carry (of).the ark to the Jordan and the.feet of the.priests \[who\].carry (of).the ark they.were.dipped in the.edge of the.waters and the Jordan it.is.full over all banks its all \[the\].days of.harvest

*JPS 1917:* and when they that bore the ark were come unto the Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bore the ark were dipped in the brink of the water — for the Jordan overfloweth all its banks all the time of harvest —

[1 Chronicles 12:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.12.16/#tree)

אֵ֣לֶּה הֵ֗ם אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָבְר֤וּ אֶת־הַיַּרְדֵּן֙ בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן וְה֥וּא מְמַלֵּ֖א עַל־כָּל־גְּדוֹתָ֑יו וַיַּבְרִ֙יחוּ֙ אֶת־כָּל־הָ֣עֲמָקִ֔ים לַמִּזְרָ֖ח וְלַֽמַּעֲרָֽב׃ס

*Word for word:* these \[were\].they who they.passed.over (et) the Jordan in the month (the) first and it \[was\].overflowing over all banks its and they.put.to.flight (et) all the valleys to the east and to the west

*JPS 1917:* These are they that went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all its banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1415.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1415/): 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).