Word

גָּד

Gâd · H1410 · Hebrew · proper noun · 72 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 people

Gadson of Jacob55 verses
Gadprophet13 verses

Meanings

Gad

A man, tribe, and territory; the seventh son of Jacob and first son of Zilpah, slave of Leah, and founder of one of the tribes of Israel

Examples
Genesis 30:11 Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad.
Genesis 35:26 and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s female slave, were Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
Genesis 46:16 And the sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
Dibon Gad

A town located in the territory of Gad or Reuben, along the route of the Exodus

Examples
Numbers 33:45 They journeyed from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.
Numbers 33:46 They journeyed from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.
Gad

A man who was a seer and prophet in the time of King David

Examples
1 Samuel 22:5 But Gad the prophet said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold; leave, and go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went into the forest of Hereth.
2 Samuel 24:11 When David got up in the morning, the word of the LORD came to Gad the prophet, David’s seer, saying,
2 Samuel 24:13 So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee for three months before your enemies while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now consider and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.”

How it’s used In 7 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

5 occurrences in 2 groups

חֹזֶהseer 4
נָבִיאprophet 2

What it doesIt is the subject

5 occurrences in 3 groups

בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 3
לָקַחto take, to receive 1
אָמַרto say 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יָרַשׁto possess, to drive out, to inherit 1

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

קָרָאto call, to cry out 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

בֵּןson 1
אֶחָדone 1
אֶלְיָסָףEliasaph 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

7 occurrences in 2 groups

אֵלto, toward 10
לto/for 3

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

52 occurrences in 10 groups

בֵּןson 32
מַטֶּהtribe, staff, rod 9
דָּבָרword, thing, matter 3
Other words · 7 groups that occur once or twice (8) 8

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 3 entries

Names of People003001007: גָּד is the personal name of Jacob's son Gad, born to Leah's maid Zilpah, named in Genesis 30:11 and 35:26.
Names of Groups003001006: The name also designates the tribe of Gad descended from him, as in the tribal list of Genesis 46:16.
Names of Locations003001010: This code is inherited from a place-name usage of this lexeme (the tribal territory of Gad) attested elsewhere; it is thematically related but not independently drawn from the personal/tribal citations above.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1410. Gad III. גָּד71 proper name, masculine (fortunatus? perhaps derived from foregoing…

H1410. Gad
III. גָּד71 proper name, masculine (fortunatus? perhaps derived from foregoing divine name SiegfJPTh 1875, 364 StaGeschichte.i.148; but see also BaeRel 159f.) — שָגּד Gen 35:26 +, as well as גָּד֑ Gen 30:11 +; —
1 son of Jacob and Zilpah;
a. strictly as personal name Gen 30:11; Gen 35:26; Gen 46:16; Exo 1:4 compare Gen 49:19; 1Ch 2:2.
b. as name of tribe Num 1:14; Deu 27:13; Deu 33:20 (twice in verse); Jos 18:7; Eze 48:27-28, compare גָּד אֶרֶץ 1Sa 13:7 see also Jer 49:1, גָּד שַׁעַד Eze 48:34, on הַגָּד הַנַּחַל 2Sa 24:5 compare We Dr; explicitly גָּד מַטֵּה Num 1:25; Num 2:14; Num 13:15; Jos 13:24; Jos 20:8; Jos 21:7, Jos 21:36; 1Ch 6:48; 1Ch 6:65; once, בְנֵיגָֿד מַטֵּה צְבָא Num 10:20; גָד בְּנֵי (MI10 גד אש) Num 1:24 Num 1:12t. Numbers; Jos 4:12 Jos 4:14t. Joshua; 1Ch 5:11; 1Ch 12:14.
2 a prophet in David's time, called נָבִיא 1Sa 22:5, but דָוִד חֹזֶה הַנָּבִיא 2Sa 24:11 & דָוִיד חֹזֵה || 1Ch 21:9, הַחֹזֶה 1Ch 29:29 & חֹזֵההַֿמֶּלֶךְ2Ch 29:25.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Names of People70 occurrences Names of Locations2 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