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title: גָּדִי — Gadite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גָּדִי (1425), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 16 times: Gadite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. Gadite. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גָּדִי

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«גָּדִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Gadite** — 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:** 16 times · **Key:** 1425 · **BDB:** גָּדִי

### Glosses

Gadite\[s\] (14); Gadite (1); the.Gadite\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Gadite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1425/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. Gadite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1425/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of גָּד 1, Gadite 2 S 23:36 (so perhaps also ‖ 1 Ch 11:38 where MT הַגְרִי q.v.; cf. Th Be Dr); elsewhere as n.pr. coll.: so 1 Ch 5:18 (only here without art., read perhaps גָּד so 𝔊), Dt 3:12, 16; 4:43; 29:7 Jos 1:12; 12:6; 13:8; 22:1 2 K 10:33 1 Ch 5:26; 12:8, 37; 26:32.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 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 «גָּדִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1425/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Samuel 23:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.36/)

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יִגְאָ֤ל בֶּן־נָתָן֙ מִצֹּבָ֔הס בָּנִ֖י הַגָּדִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* Igal the.son of.Nathan from Zobah Bani the Gadite

*JPS 1917:* Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite;

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[Joshua 22:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.22.1/)

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אָ֚ז יִקְרָ֣א יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַ לָרֽאוּבֵנִ֖י וְלַגָּדִ֑י וְלַחֲצִ֖י מַטֵּ֥ה מְנַשֶּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* then he.summoned Joshua (to) the Reubenite\[s\] and (to) the Gadite\[s\] and.(to) the half of.the.tribe of.Manasseh

*JPS 1917:* Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

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