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# גַּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1407

**coriander** — 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

coriander [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1407/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גַּד²: n.m. coriander [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1407/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. coriander (NH גִּיד, Aramaic גִּידָּא; connexion with above √ dub.; v. further LöwNo. 155)—זֶרַע גַּד Ex 16:31 Nu 11:7, sim. of manna.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: of coriander (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 11:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.11.7/#tree)

וְהַמָּ֕ן כִּזְרַע־גַּ֖ד ה֑וּא וְעֵינ֖וֹ כְּעֵ֥ין הַבְּדֹֽלַח׃

*Word for word:* and the manna \[was\].like seed of.coriander it and appearance its \[was\].like the.appearance of.(the) bdellium

*JPS 1917:* Now the manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance thereof as the appearance of bdellium.

[Exodus 16:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.31/#tree)

וַיִּקְרְא֧וּ בֵֽית־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ מָ֑ן וְה֗וּא כְּזֶ֤רַע גַּד֙ לָבָ֔ן וְטַעְמ֖וֹ כְּצַפִּיחִ֥ת בִּדְבָֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and they.called the.household of.Israel (et) name its manna and it like.\[the\] seed of.coriander \[was\].white and taste its \[was\].like a.wafer with honey

*JPS 1917:* And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna; and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1407.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1407/): 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).