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# גְּדֵרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1448

**wall** — used 9 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

wall [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1448/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גְּדֵרָה: n.f. wall [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1448/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. wall—גְּדֵרָה 1 Ch 4:23 + ψ 62:4 (MT גָּדֵר q.v.), גְּדֶרֶת Ez 13:5 (Co, cf. 𝔊; MT גָּדֵר) 42:12 (del. Co); pl. גְּדֵרוֹת Na 3:17 + 2 times, גְּדֵרֹת Nu 32:24; cstr. גִּדְרוֹת Nu 32:26 + 2 times, גִּדְרֹת Nu 32:16; sf. גְּדֵרֹתָיו ψ 89:41;—wall, hedge 1 Ch 4:23 (or is this n.pr.loc.? cf. Öt) Na 3:17 (where grasshoppers alight), Je 49:3; wall, connected with Ezekiel’s temple Ez 42:12 (del. Co); defences ψ 89:41; elsewhere ג׳ צאן sheep-folds Nu 32:16, 36 1 S 24:4 Zp 2:6 cf. Nu 32:24; Ez 13:5 Co גְּדֶרֶת after 𝔊; ψ 62:4 MT גדר הדחויה, read גדרה ד׳ cf. גָּדֵר.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: folds (4); walls (3); the folds (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 89:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.41/#tree)

פָּרַ֥צְתָּ כָל־גְּדֵרֹתָ֑יו שַׂ֖מְתָּ מִבְצָרָ֣יו מְחִתָּה׃

*Word for word:* you.have.broken.through all walls his you.have.made strongholds his a.ruin

*JPS 1917:* Thou hast broken down all his fences; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.

[Zephaniah 2:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.2.6/#tree)

וְֽהָיְתָ֞ה חֶ֣בֶל הַיָּ֗ם נְוֺ֛ת כְּרֹ֥ת רֹעִ֖ים וְגִדְר֥וֹת צֹֽאן׃

*Word for word:* and it.will.be the.region of the.sea pastures of.meadows of.shepherds and folds of.sheep

*JPS 1917:* And the sea-coast shall be pastures, even meadows for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1448.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1448/): 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).