גִּלְעָדִי
Gilʻâdîy · ghil-aw-dee'
a Giladite or descendant of Gilad
Lexicon
Derivation: patronymically from H1568 (גִּלְעָד);
a Giladite or descendant of Gilad
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Gileadite.
Letters
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- 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 › authority, the one who leads › to see and know › the doorway, the way in › the hand that works
To carry, to lift up of authority, the one who leads that works to see and know of the doorway, the way in of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of גִּלְעָדִי 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
11 occurrences · 11 OT · 0 NT · 7 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the gileadite8 · 73%
- of the gileadites2 · 18%
- a gileadite1 · 9%
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.