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title: גָּדֵר — wall · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גָּדֵר (1447), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 14 times: wall. BDB 1906: n.m. wall. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גָּדֵר

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«גָּדֵר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **wall** — 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:** 14 times · **Key:** 1447 · **BDB:** גָּדֵר

### Glosses

a.wall (8); wall (2); walls (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

wall [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1447/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. wall [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1447/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 42:7 wall (NH גָּדֵר, Aramaic גָּדֵירָא, גְּדֵירָא, Arabic جَدْرٌ, جِدْرٌ, and more commonly جِدَارٌ enclosing-wall cf. Heb. גְּדוֹר infr.) —abs. גָּדֵר Nu 22:24(×2) + 5 times + ψ 62:4 (read גדרה cf. infr.) + Ez 13:5 (Co גדרת cf. infr.); cstr. גֶּ֫דֶר Pr 24:31 Ez 42:10 (Co del.); sf. גְּדֵרוֹ Is 5:5, גְּדֵרָהּ Ho 2:8 (cf. Baer, note); pl. sf. גְּדֵרַיִךְ Mi 7:11, גְּדֵרֶיהָ ψ 80:13;—wall, fence, bordering a road Nu 22:24(×2) cf. Ec 10:8; connected with Ezekiel’s temple Ez 42:7; city wall Mi 7:11 cf. Ezr 9:9; fig. of Yahweh’s vineyard Is 5:5 ψ 80:13; of fortunes of Isreal Ez 22:30; so also Ez 13:5 (Co גְּדֶרֶת cf. גְּדֵרָה); of hindrance in path of Israel (fig. as woman) Ho 2:8; of man beset by enemies ψ 62:4 (ג׳ הַדְּחוּיָה, but read גְּדֵרָה ד׳ Ol De etc.)

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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 (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גָּדֵר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1447/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Micah 7:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/MIC.7.11/)

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י֖וֹם לִבְנ֣וֹת גְּדֵרָ֑יִךְ י֥וֹם הַה֖וּא יִרְחַק־חֹֽק׃

*Word for word:* a.day to build walls your a.day (the) that it.will.be.far a.boundary

*JPS 1917:* 'The day for building thy walls, even that day, shall be far removed.'

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[Psalms 80:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.80.13/)

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לָ֭מָּה פָּרַ֣צְתָּ גְדֵרֶ֑יהָ וְ֝אָר֗וּהָ כָּל־עֹ֥בְרֵי דָֽרֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* why? have.you.broken.down walls its and they have.plucked.it all \[those.who\].pass.by of.\[the\].road

*JPS 1917:* Why hast Thou broken down her fences, so that all they that pass by the way do pluck her?

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