Lexicon :: Strong's H1406 - gāḡ

“Overlay its top, all around its sides, and its horns with pure gold; make a gold molding all around it.

He overlaid it, its top, all around its sides, and its horns with pure gold. Then he made a gold molding all around it.

“If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had arranged on the roof.

Before the men fell asleep, she went up on the roof

There was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and citizens of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.

The temple was full of men and women; all the leaders of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.

Afterward, they went down from the high place to the city, and Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof.[fn]

One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing ​— ​a very beautiful woman.

So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

David was sitting between the city gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the city gate and over to the wall. The watchman looked out and saw a man running alone.

“Their inhabitants have become powerless,

dismayed, and ashamed.

They are plants of the field,

tender grass,

grass on the rooftops,

blasted by the east wind.[fn]

The king tore down the altars that the kings of Judah had made on the roof of Ahaz’s upper chamber. He also tore down the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple. Then he smashed them[fn] there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

The people went out, brought back branches, and made shelters for themselves on each of their rooftops and courtyards, the court of the house of God, the square by the Water Gate, and the square by the Ephraim Gate.

I stay awake;

I am like a solitary bird on a roof.

Let them be like grass on the rooftops,

which withers before it grows up[fn]

Better to live on the corner of a roof

than to share a house with a nagging wife.

Better to live on the corner of a roof

than to share a house with a nagging wife.

In its streets they wear sackcloth;

on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails,

falling down and weeping.

A pronouncement concerning the Valley of Vision:

What’s the matter with you?

Why have all of you gone up to the rooftops?

Their inhabitants have become powerless,

dismayed, and ashamed.

They are plants of the field,

tender grass,

grass on the rooftops,

blasted by the east wind.[fn]

“The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become impure like that place Topheth ​— ​all the houses on whose rooftops they have burned incense to all the stars in the sky and poured out drink offerings to other gods.’ ”

“The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come and set this city on fire. They will burn it, including the houses where incense has been burned to Baal on their rooftops and where drink offerings have been poured out to other gods to anger me.

“On all the rooftops of Moab and in her public squares, everyone is mourning because I have shattered Moab like a jar no one wants.” This is the LORD’s declaration.

Then he measured the gate from the roof of one recess to the roof of the opposite one; the distance was 43 ³/₄ feet.[fn] The openings of the recesses faced each other.

those who bow in worship on the rooftops

to the stars in the sky;

those who bow and pledge loyalty to the LORD

but also pledge loyalty to Milcom;[fn]