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title: גָּג — roof · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גָּג (1406), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 30 times: roof. BDB 1906: n.m. roof, top. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גָּג

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«גָּג» in the Tanakh dictionary: **roof** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 30 times · **Key:** 1406 · **BDB:** גָּג

### Glosses

roof (10); roofs (5); the.roof (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

roof [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1406/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. roof, top [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1406/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. roof, top (NH id.; Di comp. Ethiopic ጋግ, ጋጋ vinculum (ferreum), jugo simil. collare ferreum; √ dub.; Thes proposes גנג; perhaps גנג (= גנגן) cover Bö§ 292 Sta§ 189 a MV)—גָּג Jos 2:6 + 9 times + 1 S 9:26 Kt (Qr גָּ֫גָה), גָּ֫גָה Jos 2:6 1 S 9:26 Qr (Kt גג); cstr. Ju 9:51 + 2 times + Ez 40:13 (del. Co v. infr.); sf. גַּגֶּ֑ךָ Dt 22:8, גַּגּוֹ Ex 30:3 + 2 times + Ez 40:13 (del. Co v. infr.); pl. גַּגּוֹת Is 37:27 + 5 times; sf. גַּגּוֹתֶיהָ Is 15:3, גַּגּוֹתֵיהֶם Je 32:29, גַּגֹּתֵיהֶם Je 19:13;— roof (of house) Dt 22:8 Jos 2:6(×2), 8 Ju 16:27 1 S 9:25, 26 2 S 11:2(×2); 16:22 2 K 19:26 = Is 37:27, Ne 8:16 ψ 102:8; 129:6 Pr 21:9; 25:24 Is 15:3; 22:1 Je 48:38; as places of idolatrous worship (especially of heavenly bodies) Je 19:13; 32:29 Zp 1:5; so הַגָּג עֲלִיַּת אָחָז 2 K 23:12, roof of tower Ju 9:51, over gate 2 S 18:24, of chamber Ez 40:13(×2) (but 𝔊 Co קיר). top of altar of incense, in tabern. Ex 30:3; 37:26 (both P).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 27 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גָּג» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1406/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 102:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.8/)

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שָׁקַ֥דְתִּי וָאֶֽהְיֶ֑ה כְּ֝צִפּ֗וֹר בּוֹדֵ֥ד עַל־גָּֽג׃

*Word for word:* I.am.wakeful and I.have.become like a.bird isolated on a.roof

*JPS 1917:* I watch, and am become like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.

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[Psalms 129:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.129.6/)

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יִ֭הְיוּ כַּחֲצִ֣יר גַּגּ֑וֹת שֶׁקַּדְמַ֖ת שָׁלַ֣ף יָבֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* may.they.be like.\[the\] grass of.roofs which before it.has.shot.up it.has.withered

*JPS 1917:* Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it springeth up;

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