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# גָּדִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1424

**Gadi** — used 2 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

Gadi [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1424/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּדִי²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1424/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. father of Menahem 2 K 15:14, 17 (cf. גדו (? גדי) n.pr.m. EutNab No. 25; Palm. גדיא n.pr.m. VogNo. 32).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Gadi (2).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 15:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.17/#tree)

בִּשְׁנַ֨ת שְׁלֹשִׁ֤ים וָתֵ֙שַׁע֙ שָׁנָ֔ה לַעֲזַרְיָ֖ה מֶ֣לֶךְ יְהוּדָ֑ה מָ֠לַךְ מְנַחֵ֨ם בֶּן־גָּדִ֧י עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל עֶ֥שֶׂר שָׁנִ֖ים בְּשֹׁמְרֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* in year thirty and nine year of Azariah the.king of.Judah he.became.king Menahem the.son of.Gadi over Israel ten years in Samaria

*JPS 1917:* In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.

[2 Kings 15:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.15.14/#tree)

וַיַּעַל֩ מְנַחֵ֨ם בֶּן־גָּדִ֜י מִתִּרְצָ֗ה וַיָּבֹא֙ שֹׁמְר֔וֹן וַיַּ֛ךְ אֶת־שַׁלּ֥וּם בֶּן־יָבֵ֖ישׁ בְּשֹׁמְר֑וֹן וַיְמִיתֵ֖הוּ וַיִּמְלֹ֥ךְ תַּחְתָּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.up Menahem the.son of.Gadi from Tirzah and he.came Samaria and he.struck.down (et) Shallum the.son of.Jabesh in Samaria and he killed.him and he.became.king in place.of.him

*JPS 1917:* And Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1424.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1424/): 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).