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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, its top H1406 and its [fn]sides all around, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding all around for it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:26 - He overlaid it with pure gold, its top H1406 and its [fn]sides all around, and its horns; and he made a gold molding for it all around.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:8 -

“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof H1406, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:6 - But she had brought them up to the roof H1406 and concealed them in the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof H1406.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:8 -

Now before they lay down, [fn]she came up to them on the roof H1406

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:51 - But there was a strong tower in the center of the city, and all the men and women with all the lords of the city fled there and shut themselves in; and they went up on the roof H1406 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 Philistines were there. And about 3,000 men and women were on the roof H1406 looking on while Samson was amusing them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:25 -

Then they came down from the high place into the city, and Samuel spoke with Saul on the [fn]roof H1406.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:26 - And they arose early; and at the [fn]breaking of dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof H1406, saying, “Get up, that I may send you away.” So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went out into the street.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2 -

Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof H1406 of the king’s house, and from the roof H1406 he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 16:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:22 - So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof H1406, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

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Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof H1406 of the gate by the wall, and raised his eyes and looked, and behold, a man running by himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26 -

‘So their inhabitants were short of power,

They were dismayed and put to shame;

They were as the plant of the field and as the green herb,

As grass on the rooftops H1406 is scorched before it rises.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - Also, the altars which were on the roof H1406, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, the king tore down; and he [fn]crushed them there and threw their dust into the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:16 - So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof H1406, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:7 -

I lie awake,

I have become like a lonely bird on a roof H1406.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 129:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:6 -

Let them be like grass upon the rooftops H1406,

Which dries up before it [fn]grows up;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:9 -

It is better to live in a corner of a roof H1406

Than [fn]in a house shared with a contentious woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:24 -

It is better to live in a corner of the roof H1406

Than [fn]in a house shared with a contentious woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:3 -

In their streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth;

On their rooftops H1406 and in their squares

Everyone is wailing, [fn]dissolved in weeping.

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The [fn]oracle concerning the valley of vision.

What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops H1406?

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“So their inhabitants were short of power;

They were dismayed and put to shame;

They were as the plant of the field and as the green herb,

As grass on the rooftops H1406 [fn]is scorched before it rises.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:13 - “And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like the place Topheth because of all the houses on whose rooftops H1406 they burned incense to all the heavenly host and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:29 - “And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will enter and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses where people have burned incense to Baal on their roofs H1406 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 rooftops H1406 of Moab and in its open squares [fn]there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like an undesirable vessel,” declares Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:13 - He measured the gate from the roof H1406 of the one guardroom to the roof H1406 of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits from one door to the door opposite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:5 -

And those who worship on the housetops H1406 the host of heaven,

And those who worship and swear to Yahweh and yet swear by [fn]Milcom,

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