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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 30 times in 27 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:3 - “You shall overlay H6823 it with pure H2889 gold, H2091 its top H1406 and its [fn]sides H7023 all H5439 around, H5439 and its horns; H7161 and you shall make H6213 a gold H2091 molding H2213 all H5439 around H5439 for it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:26 - He overlaid H6823 it with pure H2889 gold, H2091 its top H1406 and its [fn]sides H7023 all H5439 around, H5439 and its horns; H7161 and he made H6213 a gold H2091 molding H2213 for it all H5439 around. H5439

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:8 - “When H3588 you build H1129 a new H2319 house, H1004 you shall make H6213 a parapet H4624 for your roof, H1406 so that you will not bring H7760 bloodguilt H1818 on your house H1004 if H3588 anyone H5307 falls H5307 from it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:6 - But she had brought H5927 them up to the roof H1406 and hidden H2934 them in the stalks H6086 of flax H6593 which she had laid H6186 in order H6186 on the roof. H1406

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:8 - Now before H2962 they lay H7901 down, H7901 [fn]she came H5927 up to them on the roof, H1406

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:51 - But there was a strong H5797 tower H4026 in the center H8432 of the city, H5892 and all H3605 the men H376 and women H802 with all H3605 the leaders H1167 of the city H5892 fled H5127 there H8033 and shut H5462 themselves in; and they went H5927 up on the roof H1406 of the tower. H4026

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27 - Now the house H1004 was full H4390 of men H376 and women, H802 and all H3605 the lords H5633 of the Philistines H6430 were there. H8033 And about 3,000 H7969 H505 men H376 and women H802 were on the roof H1406 looking H7200 on while Samson H8123 was amusing H7832 them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:25 - When they came H3381 down H3381 from the high H1116 place H1116 into the city, H5892 Samuel spoke H1696 with Saul H7586 on the [fn]roof. H1406

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:26 - And they arose H7925 early; H7925 and at daybreak H7837 Samuel H8050 called H7121 to Saul H7586 on the roof, H1406 saying, H559 “Get H6965 up, that I may send H7971 you away.” H7971 So Saul H7586 arose, H6965 and both H8147 he and Samuel H8050 went H3318 out into the street. H2351

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2 - Now when evening H6153 came H1961 David H1732 arose H6965 from his bed H4904 and walked H1980 around H1980 on the roof H1406 of the king’s H4428 house, H1004 and from the roof H1406 he saw H7200 a woman H802 bathing; H7364 and the woman H802 was very H3966 beautiful H2896 in appearance. H4758

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:22 - So they pitched H5186 a tent H168 for Absalom H53 on the roof, H1406 and Absalom H53 went H935 in to his father’s H1 concubines H6370 in the sight H5869 of all H3605 Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24 - Now David H1732 was sitting H3427 between H996 the two H8147 gates; H8179 and the watchman H6822 went H1980 up to the roof H1406 of the gate H8179 by the wall, H2346 and raised H5375 his eyes H5869 and looked, H7200 and behold, H2009 a man H376 running H7323 by himself. H905

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26 - ‘Therefore their inhabitants H3427 were short H7116 of strength, H3027
They were dismayed H2865 and put H954 to shame; H954
They were as the vegetation H6212 of the field H7704 and as the green H3419 herb, H1877
As grass H2682 on the housetops H1406 is scorched H7711 before H6440 it is grown H7054 up.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - The altars H4196 which H834 were on the roof, H1406 the upper H5944 chamber H5944 of Ahaz, H271 which H834 the kings H4428 of Judah H3063 had made, H6213 and the altars H4196 which H834 Manasseh H4519 had made H6213 in the two H8147 courts H2691 of the house H1004 of the LORD, H3068 the king H4428 broke H5422 down; H5422 and he [fn]smashed H7323 them there H8033 and threw H7993 their dust H6083 into the brook H5158 Kidron. H6939

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:16 - So the people H5971 went H3318 out and brought H935 them and made H6213 booths H5521 for themselves, each H376 on his roof, H1406 and in their courts H2691 and in the courts H2691 of the house H1004 of God, H430 and in the square H7339 at the Water H4325 Gate H8179 and in the square H7339 at the Gate H8179 of Ephraim. H669

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:7 - I lie H8245 awake, H8245
I have become H1961 like a lonely H909 bird H6833 on a housetop. H1406

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:6 - Let them be like grass H2682 upon the housetops, H1406
Which H7945 withers H3001 before H6927 it [fn]grows H8025 up;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:9 - It is better H2896 to live H3427 in a corner H6438 of a roof H1406
Than H4480 [fn]in a house H1004 shared H2267 with a contentious H4066 woman. H802

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:24 - It is better H2896 to live H3427 in a corner H6438 of the roof H1406
Than H4480 [fn]in a house H1004 shared H2267 with a contentious H4066 woman. H802

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:3 - In their streets H2351 they have girded H2296 themselves with sackcloth; H8242
On their housetops H1406 and in their squares H7339
Everyone H3605 is wailing, H3213 [fn]dissolved H3381 in tears. H1065

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:1 - The [fn]oracle H4853 concerning the valley H1516 of vision. H2384
What H4100 is the matter with you now, H645 that you have all H3605 gone H5927 up to the housetops? H1406

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:27 - “Therefore their inhabitants H3427 were short H7116 of strength, H3027
They were dismayed H2865 and put H954 to shame; H954
They were as the vegetation H6212 of the field H7704 and as the green H3419 herb, H1877
As grass H2682 on the housetops H1406 [fn]is scorched H7711 before H6440 it is grown H7054 up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:13 - “The houses H1004 of Jerusalem H3389 and the houses H1004 of the kings H4428 of Judah H3063 will be defiled H2931 like the place H4725 Topheth, H8612 because of all H3605 the houses H1004 on whose H834 rooftops H1406 they burned H6999 [fn]sacrifices H6999 to all H3605 the heavenly H8064 host H6635 and poured H5258 out drink H5262 offerings H5262 to other H312 gods.”’” H430

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:29 - “The Chaldeans H3778 who are fighting H3898 against H5921 this H2088 city H5892 will enter H935 and set H3341 this H2088 city H5892 on fire H784 and burn H8313 it, with the houses H1004 where H834 people have offered H6999 incense H6999 to Baal H1168 on their roofs H1406 and poured H5258 out drink H5262 offerings H5262 to other H312 gods H430 to provoke H3707 Me to anger. H3707

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:38 - “On all H3605 the housetops H1406 of Moab H4124 and in its streets H7339 [fn]there H3605 is lamentation H4553 everywhere; H3605 for I have broken H7665 Moab H4124 like an undesirable H369 H2656 vessel,” H3627 declares H5002 the LORD. H3068

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:13 - He measured H4058 the gate H8179 from the roof H1406 of the one guardroom H8372 to the roof H1406 of the other, a width H7341 of twenty-five H6242 H2568 cubits H520 from one door H6607 to the door H6607 opposite. H5048

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:5 - “And those who bow H7812 down H7812 on the housetops H1406 to the host H6635 of heaven, H8064
And those who bow H7812 down H7812 and swear H7650 to the LORD H3068 and yet swear H7650 by [fn]Milcom, H4445
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