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title: גָּד — fortune · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גָּד (1409), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: fortune. 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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# גָּד

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«גָּד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fortune** — 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:** 1409 · **BDB:** גַּד³

### Glosses

good.fortune (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fortune [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1409/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

fortune, good fortune n.pr.m. god of fortune [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1409/#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: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גָּד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1409/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 30:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.11/)

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וַתֹּ֥אמֶר לֵאָ֖ה בָּ֣א גָ֑ד וַתִּקְרָ֥א אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ גָּֽד׃

*Word for word:* and she.said Leah it.has.come good.fortune and she.called (et) name his Gad

*JPS 1917:* And Leah said: 'Fortune is come!' And she called his name Gad.

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