גָּדַד
gâdad · gaw-dad'
to crowd; also to gash (as if by pressing into)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root (compare H1464 (גּוּד));
to crowd; also to gash (as if by pressing into)
- to crowd
- also, to gash (as if by pressing into)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: assemble (selves by troops), gather (selves together, self in troops), cut selves.
Letters
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to carry, to lift up › the doorway, the way in › the doorway, the way in
To carry, to lift up of the doorway, the way in of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of גָּדַד above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
8 occurrences · 8 OT · 0 NT · 8 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- ye shall not cut1 · 13%
- and cut1 · 13%
- they gather themselves together1 · 13%
- and assembled themselves by troops1 · 13%
- for them, nor cut1 · 13%
- and having cut1 · 13%
- how long wilt thou cut1 · 13%
- now gather1 · 13%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.