Word

גָּג

gâg · H1406 · Hebrew · 30 occurrences

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Thing

Roof, housetopHouse, permanent dwelling41 verses

Meanings

roof

The structure forming the upper covering of a building, usually built as a terrace, to which one goes up by stairs

Examples
Deuteronomy 22:8 “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring guilt for bloodshed on your house if anyone falls from it.
Joshua 2:6 But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them in the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.
Joshua 2:8 Now before the spies lay down, she came up to them on the roof,
top

The upper covering of an artifact

Examples
Exodus 30:3 “You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding all around for it.
Exodus 37:26 And he overlaid it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around, and its horns; and he made a gold molding for it all around.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

14 occurrences in 10 groups

הוּhis 4
Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (10) 10

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 2 groups

אִישׁman, person, each 1
אִשָּׁהwoman, wife 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

20 occurrences in 4 groups

עַלon, upon, over, against 24
לto/for 5
אֵלto, toward 2
מִןfrom 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 2 groups

חָצִירleek 3
פִּנָּהcorner 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

δῶμα dōma · G1430 · housetop, in public, publicly: Greek δῶμα (dōma, G1430) serves as the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew גָּג (gâg, H1406), both denoting the flat roof of a house used as a functional space in ancient Near Eastern architecture.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Buildings001003002001: גָּג denotes a roof or housetop as part of a building's structure, as in the parapet required for a new house's roof in Deuteronomy 22:8.
Furnishings001003001001008: The word can also denote the flat top or covering of a constructed object such as the altar, as in the gold overlay described for the altar's top in Exodus 30:3 and 37:26.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1406. gag גָּג noun masculine roof, top (Late Hebrew id.; Di compare Ethiopic vinculum…

H1406. gag
גָּג noun masculine roof, top (Late Hebrew id.; Di compare Ethiopic vinculum (ferreum), jugo simil. collare ferreum; √ dubious; Thes proposes גגג; perhaps גנג (= גנגן) cover Bö§ 292 Sta§ 189 a MV) — גָּג Jos 2:6 Jos 2:9t. + 1Sa 9:26 Kt (Qr גָּ֫גָה), גָּ֫גָה Jos 2:6; 1Sa 9:26 Qr (Kt גג); construct Jdg 9:51 Jdg 9:2t. + Eze 40:13 (strike out Co see below); suffix גַּגֶּךָ֑ Deu 22:8, גַּגּוֺ Exo 30:3 Exo 30:2t. + Eze 40:13 (strike out Co see below); plural גַּגּוֺת Isa 37:27 Isa 37:5t.; suffix גַּגּוֺתֶיהָ Isa 15:3, גַּגּוֺתֵיהֶם Jer 32:29, גַּגֹּתֵיהֶם Jer 19:13; —
1 roof (of house) Deu 22:8; Jos 2:6 (twice in verse); Jos 2:8; Joshua 16:27; 1Sa 9:25-26, 2Sa 11:2 (twice in verse); 2Sa 16:22; 2Ki 19:26 = Isa 37:27; Neh 8:16; Psa 102:8; Psa 129:6; Pro 21:9; Pro 25:24; Isa 15:3; Isa 22:1; Jer 48:38; as places of idolatrous worship (especially of heavenly bodies) Jer 19:13; Jer 32:29; Zep 1:5; so אָחָז עֲלִיַּת הַגָּג 2Ki 23:12, roof of tower Jdg 9:51, Jdg 9:51, over gate 2Sa 18:24, of chamber Eze 40:13 (twice in verse) (but ᵐ5 Co קיר).
2 top of altar of incense, in tabernacle Exo 30:3; Exo 37:26 (both p).
גֻּדְגֹּדָה גִּדְּגָּד, גָּד, גַּד, see below גדד.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Furnishings2 occurrences Buildings28 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0