גְּדִי
gᵉdîy · ghed-ee'
a young goat (from browsing)
Lexicon
Derivation: from the same as H1415 (גָּדָה);
a young goat (from browsing)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: kid.
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
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to carry, to lift up › the doorway, the way in › the hand that works
To carry, to lift up of the doorway, the way in of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of גְּדִי 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
16 occurrences · 16 OT · 0 NT · 12 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- a kid7 · 44%
- kids2 · 13%
- of the kids1 · 6%
- thee a kid1 · 6%
- the kid1 · 6%
- this kid1 · 6%
- with a kid1 · 6%
- kid1 · 6%
- with the kid1 · 6%
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.