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# גָּדֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1447

**wall** — used 14 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/1490/1447/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּדֵר: n.m. wall [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1447/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 42:7 wall (NH גָּדֵר, Aramaic גָּדֵירָא, גְּדֵירָא, Arabic جَدْرٌ, جِدْرٌ, and more commonly جِدَارٌ enclosing-wall cf. Heb. גְּדוֹר infr.) —abs. גָּדֵר Nu 22:24(×2) + 5 times + ψ 62:4 (read גדרה cf. infr.) + Ez 13:5 (Co גדרת cf. infr.); cstr. גֶּ֫דֶר Pr 24:31 Ez 42:10 (Co del.); sf. גְּדֵרוֹ Is 5:5, גְּדֵרָהּ Ho 2:8 (cf. Baer, note); pl. sf. גְּדֵרַיִךְ Mi 7:11, גְּדֵרֶיהָ ψ 80:13;—wall, fence, bordering a road Nu 22:24(×2) cf. Ec 10:8; connected with Ezekiel’s temple Ez 42:7; city wall Mi 7:11 cf. Ezr 9:9; fig. of Yahweh’s vineyard Is 5:5 ψ 80:13; of fortunes of Isreal Ez 22:30; so also Ez 13:5 (Co גְּדֶרֶת cf. גְּדֵרָה); of hindrance in path of Israel (fig. as woman) Ho 2:8; of man beset by enemies ψ 62:4 (ג׳ הַדְּחוּיָה, but read גְּדֵרָה ד׳ Ol De etc.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 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: a wall (8); wall (2); walls (2).

## In the verses

[Micah 7:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.11/#tree)

י֖וֹם לִבְנ֣וֹת גְּדֵרָ֑יִךְ י֥וֹם הַה֖וּא יִרְחַק־חֹֽק׃

*Word for word:* a.day to build walls your a.day (the) that it.will.be.far a.boundary

*JPS 1917:* 'The day for building thy walls, even that day, shall be far removed.'

[Psalms 80:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.13/#tree)

לָ֭מָּה פָּרַ֣צְתָּ גְדֵרֶ֑יהָ וְ֝אָר֗וּהָ כָּל־עֹ֥בְרֵי דָֽרֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* why? have.you.broken.down walls its and they have.plucked.it all \[those.who\].pass.by of.\[the\].road

*JPS 1917:* Why hast Thou broken down her fences, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1447.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1447/): 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).