Lexical Summary gad: fortune, good fortune Original Word: גָּדTransliteration: gad Phonetic Spelling: (gawd) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: fortune, good fortune Meaning: fortune, good fortune Strong's Concordance troop From guwd (in the sense of distributing); fortune -- troop. see HEBREW guwd Brown-Driver-Briggs H1409. gad II. [גַּד] 1. noun [masculine] fortune, good fortune (Arabic id., Aramaic גַּדָּא, ) — Genesis 30:11 בּגד Kt, i.e. בְּגָד (גָד֑ בָּא Qr), ᵐ5 ἐν τύχῃ, by or with good fortune. 2. proper name, masculine god of fortune (Arabic WeSkizzen iii. 171; גד named often in Phoenician & Aramaic inscriptions, & found in Phoenician & Aramaic proper name, BaeRel 76 f. NöZMG 1888, 479; see especially SiegfJPTh 1875, 356 ff.) — with לְ + article לַגַּד Isaiah 65:11 compare Che. |
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