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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 - Overlay the top and all the sides and the horns with pure gold, and make a gold molding around it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:26 - They overlaid the top and all the sides and the horns with pure gold, and 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, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:6 - (But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax she had laid out on the roof.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:8 - Before the spies lay down for the night, she went up on the roof

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:51

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:51 - Inside the city, however, was a strong tower, to which all the men and women—all the people of the city—had fled. They had locked themselves in and climbed up on the tower roof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27 - Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:25 - After they came down from the high place to the town, Samuel talked with Saul on the roof of his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:26 - They rose about daybreak, and Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get ready, and I will send you on your way.” When Saul got ready, he and Samuel went outside together.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2 - One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,

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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, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24 - While David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall. As he looked out, he saw a man running alone.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26 - Their people, drained of power, are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, scorched before it grows up.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of the LORD. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:16 - So the people went out and brought back branches and built themselves temporary shelters on their own roofs, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God and in the square by the Water Gate and the one by the Gate of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:7 - I lie awake; I have become like a bird alone on a roof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 129:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:6 - May they be like grass on the roof, which withers before it can grow;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:9 - Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:24 - Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:3 - In the streets they wear sackcloth; on the roofs and in the public squares they all wail, prostrate with weeping.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:1 - A prophecy against the Valley of Vision: What troubles you now, that you have all gone up on the roofs,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:27 - Their people, drained of power, are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, scorched[fn] before it grows up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:13 - The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:29 - The Babylonians who are attacking this city will come in and set it on fire; they will burn it down, along with the houses where the people aroused my anger by burning incense on the roofs to Baal and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 48:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:38 - On all the roofs in Moab and in the public squares there is nothing but mourning, for I have broken Moab like a jar that no one wants,”

declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:13 - Then he measured the gateway from the top of the rear wall of one alcove to the top of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits[fn] from one parapet opening to the opposite one.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:5 - those who bow down on the roofs to worship the starry host, those who bow down and swear by the LORD and who also swear by Molek,[fn]
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