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# גּוֹג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1463

**Gog** — 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

Gog [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1463/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גּוֹג: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1463/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (√ unknown)— 1 Ch 5:4 a Reubenite. Gog of the land of Magog, prince of Rosh, Meshek, and Tubal, גּוֹג אֶרֶץ מָגוֹג נְשִׂיא רֹאשׁ מֶשֶׁךְ וְתֻבָ֑ל Ez 38:2, 3 (om. א׳ מָגוֹג) 39:1 (om. id.) cf. 38:14, 16 (del. 𝔊 𝔖 Co) v 18; 39:1, 11(×3) (גֵּיא הֲמוֹן ג׳) v 15 (id.); cf. Assyrian Gâgu, chief of a mountain tribe N. of Assyria DlPa 247 COT on Ez 38:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Gog (6); O Gog (3); \[was\] Gog (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 5:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.4/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י יוֹאֵ֑ל שְׁמַֽעְיָ֥ה בְנ֛וֹ גּ֥וֹג בְּנ֖וֹ שִׁמְעִ֥י בְנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Joel \[was\].Shemaiah son his \[was\].Gog son his \[was\].Shimei son his

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son;

[Ezekiel 38:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.38.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.38.3/#tree)

וְאָ֣מַרְתָּ֔ כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֑ה הִנְנִ֤י אֵלֶ֙יךָ֙ גּ֔וֹג נְשִׂ֕יא רֹ֖אשׁ מֶ֥שֶׁךְ וְתֻבָֽל׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.say thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh here I \[am\].against you O.Gog the.prince of.the.head of.Meshech and Tubal

*JPS 1917:* and say: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1463.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1463/): 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).