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# גָּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1410

**Gad** — used 72 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

Gad [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1410/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּד: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1410/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (fortunatus? perhaps der. from foreg. divine name SiegfJPTh 1875, 364 StaGesch. i. 148; but v. also BaeRel. 159 f.)—גָּ֥ד Gn 35:26 +, as well as גָּד֑ Gn 30:11 +;— son of Jacob and Zilpah; strictly as personal name Gn 30:11; 35:26; 46:16 Ex 1:4 cf. Gn 49:19 1 Ch 2:2. as name of tribe Nu 1:14 Dt 27:13; 33:20(×2) Jos 18:7 Ez 48:27, 28; cf. אֶרֶץ גָּד 1 S 13:7 v. also Je 49:1, שַׁעַר גָּד Ez 48:34, on הַנַּחַל הַגָּד 2 S 24:5 cf. We Dr; explicitly מַטֵּה גָּד Nu 1:25; 2:14; 13:15 Jos 13:24; 20:8; 21:7, 36 1 Ch 6:48, 65; once, צְבָא מַטֵּה בְנֵי־גָד Nu 10:20; בְּנֵי גָד (MI10 אש גד) Nu 1:24 + 12 times Nu; Jos 4:12 + 14 times Jos; 1 Ch 5:11; 12:14. a prophet in David’s time, called נָבִיא 1 S 22:5, but הַנָּבִיא חֹזֶה דָוִד 2 S 24:11 & חֹזֵה דָוִיד ‖ 1 Ch 21:9, הַחֹזֶה 1 Ch 29:29 & חֹזֵה־הַמֶּלֶךְ 2 Ch 29:25. מִגְדַּל־גַּד v. p. 154.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 33 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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 Gad (47); Gad (23); gad (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 1:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.14/#tree)

לְגָ֕ד אֶלְיָסָ֖ף בֶּן־דְּעוּאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* for Gad Eliasaph the.son of.Deuel

*JPS 1917:* Of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

[Exodus 1:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.4/#tree)

דָּ֥ן וְנַפְתָּלִ֖י גָּ֥ד וְאָשֵֽׁר׃

*Word for word:* Dan and Naphtali Gad and Asher

*JPS 1917:* Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1410.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1410/): 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).