גַּד
Gad · H1408 · Hebrew · proper noun · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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good fortune, luck
An unpredictable and uncontrollable force that shapes events favorably; it may have religious connotations, in that the force is attributed to a god of good fortune
ExamplesIsaiah 65:11 “But as for you who abandon the LORD, Who forget My holy mountain, Who set a table for Fortune, And fill a jug of mixed wine for Destiny,
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 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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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Plants001002007001
- This code is inherited from the shared listing with the identically-spelled coriander-plant word (גַּד (gad, H1407)); it does not independently apply to the deity name below.
- Names of Deities003001004
- גַּד is the name of the pagan deity Fortune, denounced in Isaiah 65:11 alongside Destiny as gods the unfaithful set a table for.
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
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