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title: גַּד — that troop · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גַּד (1408), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: that troop. BDB 1906: fortune, good fortune n.pr.m. god of fortune. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גַּד

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«גַּד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **that troop** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1408 · **BDB:** גַּד³

### Glosses

Gad (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

that troop [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1408/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

fortune, good fortune n.pr.m. god of fortune [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1408/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] fortune, good fortune (Arabic جَدٌّ id., Aramaic גַּדָּא, ܓܰܕܳܐ )—Gn 30:11 בּגד Kt, i.e. בְּגָד (בָּא גָד֑ Qr), 𝔊 ἐν τύχῃ, by or with good fortune. n.pr.m. god of fortune (Arabic جَدّ WeSkizzen iii. 171; גד named often in Ph. \& Aramaic inscript., \& found in Ph. \& Aramaic n.pr., BaeRel 76 f. NöZMG 1888, 479; v. especially SiegfJPTh 1875, 356 ff.)—c. לְ + art. לַגַּד Is 65:11 cf. Che.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גַּד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1408/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 65:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.65.11/)

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וְאַתֶּם֙ עֹזְבֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה הַשְּׁכֵחִ֖ים אֶת־הַ֣ר קָדְשִׁ֑י הַֽעֹרְכִ֤ים לַגַּד֙ שֻׁלְחָ֔ן וְהַֽמְמַלְאִ֖ים לַמְנִ֥י מִמְסָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and you \[who\].forsake (of).Yahweh (the) forgetting (et) the.mountain my.holiness my \[who\] arrange for (the) Gad a.table and \[who\] fill for (the) Meni mixed.wine

*JPS 1917:* But ye that forsake the LORD, that forget My holy mountain, that prepare a table for Fortune, and that offer mingled wine in full measure unto Destiny,

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