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# גְּדִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1423

**kid** — used 16 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

kid [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1423/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גְּדִי: n.m. kid [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1423/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 27, 9 kid (NH id., Arabic جَدْىٌ Ph. גדא, Aramaic גַּדְיָא, ܓܰܕܝܳܐ; cf. Assyrian gadû, gadiia, Meissner ZA iv. 1889, 286 ZehnpfundBAS i. 505)—גְּדִי Gn 38:17 + 12 times (abs. Gn 38:23 +, & (generally) cstr. Gn 38:17 +); pl. גְּדָיִים 1 S 10:3, cstr. גְּדָיֵי Gn 27:9, 16;—kid, almost always ג׳ עִזִּים Gn 27:9, 16; 38:17, 20 Ju 6:19; 13:15, 19; 15:1 1 S 16:20; abs. Ex 23:19; 34:26 Dt 14:21 (all לא תבשׁל ג׳ בחלב אמו), & c. art. הַגּ׳ Gn 38:23 Ju 14:6; abs. pl. 1 S 10:3;—cf. also עֵין גֶּ֫דִי.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: a kid (8); kid (3); kids (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 27:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.27.16/#tree)

וְאֵ֗ת עֹרֹת֙ גְּדָיֵ֣י הָֽעִזִּ֔ים הִלְבִּ֖ישָׁה עַל־יָדָ֑יו וְעַ֖ל חֶלְקַ֥ת צַוָּארָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.skins of.the.kids of the.goats she.clothed on hands his and on the.smooth.part his.neck(s) his

*JPS 1917:* And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck.

[Exodus 23:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.23.19/#tree)

רֵאשִׁ֗ית בִּכּוּרֵי֙ אַדְמָ֣תְךָ֔ תָּבִ֕יא בֵּ֖ית יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ לֹֽא־תְבַשֵּׁ֥ל גְּדִ֖י בַּחֲלֵ֥ב אִמּֽוֹ׃ס

*Word for word:* the.first of.the.first-fruits your.ground your you.will.bring the.house of.Yahweh God your not you.must.boil a.kid in the.milk its.mother his

*JPS 1917:* The choicest first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1423.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1423/): 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).