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# גְּדֵרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1449

**Gederah** — 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

Gederah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1449/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גְּדֵרָה²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1449/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. a city of Judah הַגְּדֵרָה Jos 15:36; 𝔊 Γαδηρα, 𝔊L Γαδιρα;? cf. Γεδουρ LagOnom. 245, 2nd ed. 254.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Gederah (2).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.36/#tree)

וְשַׁעֲרַ֙יִם֙ וַעֲדִיתַ֔יִם וְהַגְּדֵרָ֖ה וּגְדֵרֹתָ֑יִם עָרִ֥ים אַרְבַּֽע־עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃

*Word for word:* and Shaaraim and Adithaim and (the) Gederah and Gederothaim cities four- teen and villages their

*JPS 1917:* and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, with Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.

[1 Chronicles 4:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.23/#tree)

הֵ֚מָּה הַיּ֣וֹצְרִ֔ים וְיֹשְׁבֵ֥י נְטָעִ֖ים וּגְדֵרָ֑ה עִם־הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ בִּמְלַאכְתּ֖וֹ יָ֥שְׁבוּ שָֽׁם׃ס

*Word for word:* they \[were\].the potters and the.inhabitants of.Netaim and Gederah with the king in service his they.dwelt there

*JPS 1917:* These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plantations and hedges; there they dwelt occupied in the king's work.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1449/): 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).