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Lexicon :: Strong's H1406 - gāḡ

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גָּג
Transliteration
gāḡ
Pronunciation
gawg
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably by reduplication from גָּאָה (H1342)
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TWOT Reference: 312

Strong’s Definitions

גָּג gâg, gawg; probably by reduplication from H1342; a roof; by analogy, the top of an altar:—roof (of the house), (house) top (of the house).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x

The KJV translates Strong's H1406 in the following manner: roof (12x), housetop (8x), top (6x), ... house (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x
The KJV translates Strong's H1406 in the following manner: roof (12x), housetop (8x), top (6x), ... house (4x).

  1. roof, top, housetop

    1. roof (of house)

    2. top (of altar of incense)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גָּג gâg, gawg; probably by reduplication from H1342; a roof; by analogy, the top of an altar:—roof (of the house), (house) top (of the house).
STRONGS H1406: Abbreviations
† גָּג noun masculine roof, top (Late Hebrew id.; Di compare Ethiopic ጋግ፡ ጋጋ፡ vinculum (ferreum), jugo simil. collare ferreum; √ dubious; Thes proposes גגג; perhaps גנג (= גנגן) cover Bö§ 292 Sta§ 189 a MV) — גָּג Joshua 2:6 + 9 times + 1 Samuel 9:26 Kt (Qr גָּ֫גָה), גָּ֫גָה Joshua 2:6; 1 Samuel 9:26 Qr (Kt גג); construct Judges 9:51 + 2 times + Ezekiel 40:13 (strike out Co see below); suffix גַּגֶּךָ֑ Deuteronomy 22:8, גַּגּוֺ Exodus 30:3 + 2 times + Ezekiel 40:13 (strike out Co see below); plural גַּגּוֺת Isaiah 37:27 + 5 times; suffix גַּגּוֺתֶיהָ Isaiah 15:3, גַּגּוֺתֵיהֶם Jeremiah 32:29, גַּגֹּתֵיהֶם Jeremiah 19:13; —
1. roof (of house) Deuteronomy 22:8; Joshua 2:6 (twice in verse); Joshua 2:8; Joshua 16:27; 1 Samuel 9:25, 26; 2 Samuel 11:2 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 16:22; 2 Kings 19:26 = Isaiah 37:27; Nehemiah 8:16; Psalm 102:8; Psalm 129:6; Proverbs 21:9; Proverbs 25:24; Isaiah 15:3; Isaiah 22:1; Jeremiah 48:38; as places of idolatrous worship (especially of heavenly bodies) Jeremiah 19:13; Jeremiah 32:29; Zephaniah 1:5; so הַגָּג עֲלִיַּת אָחָז 2 Kings 23:12, roof of tower Judges 9:51, over gate 2 Samuel 18:24, of chamber Ezekiel 40:13 (twice in verse) (but Greek Version of the LXX Co קיר).
2. top of altar of incense, in tabernacle Exodus 30:3; Exodus 37:26 (both P).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

30:3; 30:3; 37:26

Deuteronomy

22:8; 22:8

Joshua

2:6; 2:6; 2:6; 2:8

Judges

9:51; 9:51

1 Samuel

9:25; 9:26; 9:26; 9:26

2 Samuel

11:2; 16:22; 18:24

2 Kings

19:26; 23:12

Nehemiah

8:16

Psalms

102:8; 129:6

Proverbs

21:9; 25:24

Isaiah

15:3; 15:3; 22:1; 37:27; 37:27

Jeremiah

19:13; 19:13; 32:29; 32:29; 48:38

Ezekiel

40:13; 40:13; 40:13

Zephaniah

1:5

H1406

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Strong's Number H1406 matches the Hebrew גָּג (gāḡ),
which occurs 31 times in 27 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:3 - You shall overlay it with pure gold, the top of it, the sides of it around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:26 - He overlaid it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:8 - When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:6 - But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:8 - Before they were laid down, she came up to them on the roof;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:51

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:51 - But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and got them up to the roof of the tower.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27 - Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Pelishtim were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Shimshon made sport.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:25 - When they were come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Sha'ul on the housetop.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:26 - They arose early: and it happened about the spring of the day, that Shemu'el called to Sha'ul on the housetop, saying, Up, that I may send you away. Sha'ul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Shemu'el, abroad.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2 - It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:22 - So they spread Avshalom a tent on the top of the house; and Avshalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24 - Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26 - Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blasted before it is grown up.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - The altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Yehudah had made, and the altars which Menashsheh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king break down, and beat them down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:16 - So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, everyone on the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the broad place of the water gate, and in the broad place of the gate of Efrayim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:7 - I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 129:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:6 - Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:9 - It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than to share a house with a contentious woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:24 - It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than to share a house with a contentious woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:3 - In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:1 - The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:27 - Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field of grain before it is grown up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:13 - and the houses of Yerushalayim, and the houses of the kings of Yehudah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Tofet, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of the sky, and have poured out drink-offerings to other gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:29 - and the Kasdim, who fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, on whose roofs they have offered incense to Ba`al, and poured out drink-offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:38 - On all the housetops of Mo'av and in the streets of it there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Mo'av like a vessel in which none delights, says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:13 - He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a breadth of twenty-five cubits; door against door.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:5 - those who worship the host of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by the LORD and also swear by Malkam,
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