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# גָּדַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1443

**wall up** — used 10 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 up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1443/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּדַר: vb. wall up or off, build wall [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1443/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. wall up or off, build a wall (denom.? NH id. Arabic جَدَرَ and v. גָּדֵר infr.)— Pf. גָּדַר Jb 19:8 + 2 times, וְגָדַרְתִּ֫י Ho 2:8 Am 9:11; Impf. 2 mpl. וַתִּגְדְּרוּ Ez 13:5; Pt. גֹּדֵר Is 58:12 Ez 22:30; pl. גֹּדְרִים 2 K 12:13; 22:6;—wall up, shut off, lit. only Pt., abs. = masons (wall-builders) 2 K 12:13; 22:6; also Is 58:12 (obj. פֶּרֶץ); fig. of Yahweh’s dealings with men, obj. אֹרַח Jb 19:8, דֶּרֶך La 3:9; cf. Ho 2:8 (acc. cogn. גָּדֵר), in all = obstructing path of life, cf. also La 3:7 (c. בַּעֲדִי); of restoring fallen booth of David Am 9:11 (obj. פרצים); of repairing fortunes of Israel, a work neglected by prophets Ez 13:5, and by all in power 22:30 (both c. acc. cogn.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he has walled up (3); I will wall up (2); wall-builders (2).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 3:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.9/#tree)

גָּדַ֤ר דְּרָכַי֙ בְּגָזִ֔ית נְתִיבֹתַ֖י עִוָּֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* he.has.walled.up ways my with hewn.\[stone\] paths my he.has.made.crooked

*JPS 1917:* He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.

[Lamentations 3:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.7/#tree)

גָּדַ֧ר בַּעֲדִ֛י וְלֹ֥א אֵצֵ֖א הִכְבִּ֥יד נְחָשְׁתִּֽי׃

*Word for word:* he.has.walled.up behind me and not I.will.go.out he.has.made.heavy fetter\[s\] my.bronze

*JPS 1917:* He hath hedged me about, that I cannot go forth; He hath made my chain heavy.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1443.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1443/): 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).