גָּדַר
gâdar · gaw-dar'
to wall in or around
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to wall in or around
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: close up, fence up, hedge, inclose, make up (a wall), mason, repairer.
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
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to carry, to lift up › the doorway, the way in › the head, the highest
To carry, to lift up of the doorway, the way in of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of גָּדַר 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
10 occurrences · 10 OT · 0 NT · 10 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and to masons1 · 10%
- and masons1 · 10%
- he hath fenced up1 · 10%
- the repairer1 · 10%
- he hath hedged1 · 10%
- he hath inclosed1 · 10%
- neither made up1 · 10%
- among them, that should make up1 · 10%
- and make1 · 10%
- and close up1 · 10%
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.