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Lexicon :: Strong's H1438 - gāḏaʿ

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גָּדַע
Transliteration
gāḏaʿ
Pronunciation
gaw-dah'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 316

Strong’s Definitions

גָּדַע gâdaʻ, gaw-dah'; a primitive root; to fell a tree; generally, to destroy anything:—cut (asunder, in sunder, down, off), hew down.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x

The KJV translates Strong's H1438 in the following manner: ... down (11x), cut off (7x), asunder (3x), cut in sunder (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x
The KJV translates Strong's H1438 in the following manner: ... down (11x), cut off (7x), asunder (3x), cut in sunder (2x).

  1. to cut, hew, chop, cut down, hew down, hew off, cut off, cut in two, shave off

    1. (Qal) to hew, chop in two

    2. (Niphal) to be chopped off, be hewn off

    3. (Piel) to cut off or down in two, hew off or down in two

    4. (Pual) to chop down, hew down

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גָּדַע gâdaʻ, gaw-dah'; a primitive root; to fell a tree; generally, to destroy anything:—cut (asunder, in sunder, down, off), hew down.
STRONGS H1438: Abbreviations
† גָּדַע verb hew, hew down or off (Late Hebrew id. (rare), Aramaic גְּדַע Ithp.; Arabic bdb015401 cut off hand or other member, mutilate) —
Qal Perfect גָּדַע Lamentations 2:3; וְגָדַעְתִּ֫י 1 Samuel 2:31; Imperfect וָאָגְדַּע Zechariah 11:10, 14; Participle passive גְּדוּעָה Isaiah 15:2 (so many editions but) Baer גְּרוּעָה; compare below, גְּדֻעִים Isaiah 10:33; — hew, cut in two, a staff Zechariah 11:10, 14; metaphor hew off, an arm 1 Samuel 2:31; horns Lamentations 2:3; hew down, trees Isaiah 10:33; if in Isaiah 15:2 then = shave off (object H2206 זקן, beard), but no other indication of this meaning, and true MT גְּרוּעָה, compare Baer's note & Jeremiah 48:37; see H1639 גרע.
Niph. Perfect נִגְדַּע Judges 21:6 נֶגְדַּע Jeremiah 50:23; 3rd person feminine singular נִגְדְּעָה Jeremiah 48:25; וְנִגְדְּעָה consecutive Isaiah 22:25; 2nd person masculine singular נִגְדַּעְתָּ Isaiah 14:12; 3rd person plural וְנִגְדְּעוּ consecutive Ezekiel 6:6; Amos 3:14; — be hewn off, of altar-horns Amos 3:14, of idols Ezekiel 6:6 (|| נשׁבר); of severance of a tribe from nation Judges 21:6; figurative of king of Babylon Isaiah 14:12; of Babylon as hammer Jeremiah 50:23 (|| נשׁבר); of a minister, under figure of secure peg or pin Isaiah 22:25; of horn of Moab Jeremiah 48:25 (|| נשׁבר).
Pi. Perfect גִּדַּע 2 Chronicles 34:7, גִּדֵּ֑עַ 2 Chronicles 34:4; Psalm 107:16, וַיְגַדַּע 2 Chronicles 14:2, אֲגַדֵּ֑עַ Psalm 7:5; Isaiah 45:2, וַיְגַדְּעוּ 2 Chronicles 31:1; 3rd person masculine plural תְּגַדֵּע֑וּן Deuteronomy 7:5; Deuteronomy 12:3; — hew off, down, in two (compare Qal) of Asherîm Deuteronomy 7:5; 2 Chronicles 14:2; 2 Chronicles 31:1, of idols Deuteronomy 12:3 (פְּסִילִים) 2 Chronicles 34:4, 7 (חַמָּנִים); figurative horns of wicked Psalm 75:11; bars of iron (i.e. of Babylon's gates) Isaiah 45:2, compare Psalm 107:16.
† Pu. Perfect גֻּדָּ֑עוּ Isaiah 9:9 hew down (of trees).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

7:5; 7:5; 12:3; 12:3

Judges

21:6; 21:6

1 Samuel

2:31; 2:31

2 Chronicles

14:2; 14:2; 31:1; 31:1; 34:4; 34:4; 34:7; 34:7

Psalms

7:5; 107:16; 107:16

Isaiah

9:9; 10:33; 10:33; 14:12; 14:12; 15:2; 15:2; 22:25; 22:25; 45:2; 45:2

Jeremiah

48:25; 48:25; 48:37; 50:23; 50:23

Lamentations

2:3; 2:3

Ezekiel

6:6; 6:6

Amos

3:14; 3:14

Zechariah

11:10; 11:10; 11:14; 11:14

H1438

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Strong's Number H1438 matches the Hebrew גָּדַע (gāḏaʿ),
which occurs 22 times in 22 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:5 - But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their engraved images with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:3 - and you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods; and you shall destroy their name out of that place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:6 - The children of Yisra'el repented them for Binyamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Yisra'el this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:31 - Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm of your father's house, that there shall not be an old man in your house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:3 - for he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 31:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:1 - Now when all this was finished, all Yisra'el who were present went out to the cities of Yehudah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Yehudah and Binyamin, in Efrayim also and Menashsheh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Yisra'el returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4 - They broke down the altars of the Ba`alim in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the engraved images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all Eretz-Yisra'el, and returned to Yerushalayim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 75:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 75:10 - I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, But the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:16 - For he has broken the gates of brass, And cut through bars of iron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:10 - The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycamores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:33

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:33 - Behold, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, will lop the boughs with terror: and the high of stature shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought low.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:12 - How you are fallen from heaven, Heylel, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:25 - In that day, says the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall; and the burden that was on it shall be cut off; for the LORD has spoken it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:2 - I will go before you, and make the rough places smooth; I will break in pieces the doors of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:25 - The horn of Mo'av is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:23 - How is the hammer of the whole eretz cut apart and broken! how is Bavel become a desolation among the nations!

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:3 - He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Yisra'el; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Ya`akov like a flaming fire, which devours round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your sun-images may be hewn down, and your works may be abolished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 3:14 - "For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Yisra'el on him, I will also visit the altars of Beit-El; And the horns of the altar will be cut off, And fall to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:10 - I took my staff Favor, and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:14 - Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Yehudah and Yisra'el.
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