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title: גַּמָּדִים — valorous men · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גַּמָּדִים (1575), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: valorous men. BDB 1906: n.pr.gent. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גַּמָּדִים

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«גַּמָּדִים» in the Tanakh dictionary: **valorous men** — 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:** 1575 · **BDB:** גַּמָּדִים

### Glosses

Gammadites (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

valorous men [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1575/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1575/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent. Ez 27:11; valorous men ThesAdd. 79 Ew RVm; but n.pr. apparently needed; גּמדים not elsewhere; LagOnom. Sacr. 2, 95, 2nd ed. 367 proposes גמרים v. גֹּמֶר; צמרים cf. Gn 10:18.

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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 (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גַּמָּדִים» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1575/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 27:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.11/)

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בְּנֵ֧י אַרְוַ֣ד וְחֵילֵ֗ךְ עַל־חוֹמוֹתַ֙יִךְ֙ סָבִ֔יב וְגַ֨מָּדִ֔ים בְּמִגְדְּלוֹתַ֖יִךְ הָי֑וּ שִׁלְטֵיהֶ֞ם תִּלּ֤וּ עַל־חוֹמוֹתַ֙יִךְ֙ סָבִ֔יב הֵ֖מָּה כָּלְל֥וּ יָפְיֵֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* the.people of.Arvad and Helech \[were\].on walls your all.around and.\[the\] Gammadites in towers your they.were shields their they.hung.up on walls your all.around they they.perfected beauty your

*JPS 1917:* The men of Arvad and Helech were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadim were in thy towers; they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have perfected thy beauty.

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