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# גָּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1409

**fortune** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fortune [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1409/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גַּד³: fortune, good fortune n.pr.m. god of fortune [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1409/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] fortune, good fortune (Arabic جَدٌّ id., Aramaic גַּדָּא, ܓܰܕܳܐ )—Gn 30:11 בּגד Kt, i.e. בְּגָד (בָּא גָד֑ Qr), 𝔊 ἐν τύχῃ, by or with good fortune. n.pr.m. god of fortune (Arabic جَدّ WeSkizzen iii. 171; גד named often in Ph. & Aramaic inscript., & found in Ph. & Aramaic n.pr., BaeRel 76 f. NöZMG 1888, 479; v. especially SiegfJPTh 1875, 356 ff.)—c. לְ + art. לַגַּד Is 65:11 cf. Che.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 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: good fortune (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 30:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.11/#tree)

וַתֹּ֥אמֶר לֵאָ֖ה בָּ֣א גָ֑ד וַתִּקְרָ֥א אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ גָּֽד׃

*Word for word:* and she.said Leah it.has.come good.fortune and she.called (et) name his Gad

*JPS 1917:* And Leah said: 'Fortune is come!' And she called his name Gad.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1409.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1409/): 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).