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Lexicon :: Strong's H1571 - gam

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גַּם
Transliteration
gam
Pronunciation
gam
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
By contraction from an unused root
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TWOT Reference: 361a

Strong’s Definitions

גַּם gam, gam; by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather; properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and:—again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and, but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x

The KJV translates Strong's H1571 in the following manner: also (5x), as (3x), even (2x), again (1x), and (1x), miscellaneous (22x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 34x
The KJV translates Strong's H1571 in the following manner: also (5x), as (3x), even (2x), again (1x), and (1x), miscellaneous (22x).

  1. also, even, indeed, moreover, yea

    1. also, moreover (giving emphasis)

    2. neither, neither...nor (with negative)

    3. even (for stress)

    4. indeed, yea (introducing climax)

    5. also (of correspondence or retribution)

    6. but, yet, though (adversative)

    7. even, yea, yea though (with 'when' in hypothetical case)

  2. (TWOT) again, alike

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גַּם gam, gam; by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather; properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and:—again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and, but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.
STRONGS H1571: Abbreviations
גַּם 768 adverb denoting addition, also, moreover, yea (Moabite id., also Zinjirli (Lzb250 Cooke166); probably akin to √ جَمَّ; compare جَمًّا (accusative) in a mass, altogether) —
1. also, moreover, emphasizing sometimes the thought of an entire sentence, but more usually the word immediately following, as Genesis 3:6 וַתִּתֵּן גַּם לְאִישָׁהּ and gave also to her husband, Genesis 3:27 and take also of the tree of life, Genesis 7:3; Genesis 19:21; Genesis 24:19; Genesis 26:21; Genesis 29:27; Genesis 30:15; Genesis 32:21 [Genesis 32:20] (⬩⬩⬩גַּם הִגֵּה : so Esther 7:9) Genesis 48:11; Exodus 8:28; Exodus 12:32b Deuteronomy 1:37; 1 Samuel 28:20; 2 Samuel 11:12; 2 Kings 9:27; Isaiah 7:13 +. Often before pronouns, Genesis 4:4 וְהֶבֶל הֵבִיא גַם הוּא and Abel, he also brought, Genesis 20:5 וְהִיא־גַם־הִוא (so only here) and she herself also, Genesis 20:6; Genesis 27:31 וַיַּעַשׂ גַּם הוּא, Genesis 30:8; Deuteronomy 3:20; Judges 3:31; Judges 6:35; Judges 9:19; 1 Samuel 19:20-24 Jeremiah 12:6; Jeremiah 48:26 etc. (compare MI6 ויאמר גם הא): especially in Genealogies of J (BuUrg. 220) Genesis 4:22, 26; Genesis 10:21; Genesis 19:38; Genesis 22:20, 24 compare Judges 8:31. גַּם followed by pronoun also begins a sentence with emphasis in an elevated style, thou (they) also, Isaiah 14:10; Jeremiah 12:6 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 48:7; Ezekiel 16:52; Nahum 3:11 (twice in verse). After a pronoun in an oblique case (Ges§ 135, 2) Genesis 27:34; 1 Samuel 19:23; 2 Samuel 17:5; Jeremiah 25:14; Jeremiah 27:7 +. וְגַם and also (more often than גַּם alone attaching a sentence) Genesis 6:4; Genesis 14:16; Genesis 15:14; Genesis 17:16; Genesis 20:12; Genesis 24:14, 46; Genesis 30:6; Genesis 37:7; Genesis 38:24; Genesis 42:28; Exodus 2:19; Exodus 3:9; Exodus 4:14; Joshua 7:11 (5 times) 1 Samuel 4:17; 1 Kings 21:19 + often; with a negative = neither Exodus 5:2; Exodus 34:3 and elsewhere — גַּם⬩⬩⬩גַּם (like et... et) both... and Genesis 44:16; Genesis 47:3, 19; Numbers 18:3; Jeremiah 51:12; Psalm 49:3 +: גַּם⬩⬩⬩גַּם⬩⬩⬩גַּם⬩⬩⬩ Genesis 24:25; Judges 8:22; Ecclesiastes 9:6: with a negative neither... nor Numbers 23:25; 1 Samuel 20:27; 1 Kings 3:26, and (3 times) Genesis 43:8; Exodus 4:10; 1 Samuel 28:6. So (but seldom) וְגַם⬩⬩⬩גַּם Genesis 24:44; Exodus 10:25f; 1 Samuel 2:26; 1 Samuel 12:14; 1 Samuel 26:25: with negative 1 Samuel 21:9. — N.B. In poetry independence and emphasis is sometimes given by גַּם to a new idea, where in English we should be satisfied with and: Psalm 107:5; Psalm 137:1; Job 24:19; Cant 7:14; Lamentations 4:15.
2. with stress on a particular word, even, Exodus 4:9; Numbers 22:33 גַּם אוֺתְךָ even thee I had slain, and kept her alive, 2 Samuel 17:10; Jeremiah 2:33; Psalm 132:12; Proverbs 14:13 even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, Proverbs 14:20; Proverbs 17:28; Proverbs 20:11; Ruth 2:15; Nehemiah 3:35; and so often after כִּי, Deuteronomy 12:31 for even their sons they burn in the fire to their gods, 1 Samuel 22:17; Isaiah 26:12; Jeremiah 6:11; Jeremiah 12:6; Jeremiah 14:5; Hosea 9:12 כִּי־גַם־אוֺי לָהֶם for even woe is it to them when I depart from them; הֲגַם † Genesis 16:13; 1 Samuel 10:11, 12 = 1 Samuel 19:24; 1 Kings 17:20; Psalm 78:20; Job 41:1; Esther 7:8. Other cases: — 1 Samuel 24:12 רְאֵה גַּם רְאֵה see, yea see ! (but HupQu. Job vi. גַּם רָאֹה : compare below) Psalm 118:11; Job 2:10 גַּם אֶת־הַטּוֺב נְקַבֵּל shall we receive good (emphatic) from God and not evil ? Job 21:7; interposed once between a substantive and adjective Genesis 20:4 Gentemne etiam justam interficies? emphasizing כֹּל, Deuteronomy 28:61; Judges 9:49b 1 Samuel 22:7 גַּם־ לְכֻלְּכֶם to all (emphatic) of you will he give...? 2 Samuel 19:31 גַּם אֶת־הַכֹּל יִקָּ֑ח yea, the whole let him take! Isaiah 26:12; אֶחָד 2 Samuel 17:12b and we will not leave ⬩⬩⬩גַּם אֶחָד even one (similarly 2 Samuel 17:13 b), Psalm 14:3 (= Psalm 53:4) אֵין גַּם אֶחָד; an infinitive or cognate accusative attached to a verb, † Genesis 31:15; Genesis 46:4; Numbers 11:15; Numbers 16:13; 1 Samuel 1:6. גַּם שְׁנֵיהֶם literally even both i.e. the one as well as the other (German alle beide) is said idiomatically, † Genesis 27:45 (שְׁנֵיכֶם), Deuteronomy 22:22; Deuteronomy 23:19; 1 Samuel 25:43 (שְׁתֵּיהֶן), Proverbs 17:15; Proverbs 20:10, 12; Ruth 1:5.
3. introducing a climax, yea, especially in a rhetorical style, Genesis 27:33; Deuteronomy 23:3; Deuteronomy 23:4; Judges 5:4 (twice in verse); Isaiah 13:3; Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 43:13 yea, from today I am the same, Isaiah 44:12 גַּם רָעֵב yea, he is hungry, and has no strength, Isaiah 47:3; Isaiah 48:8 (3 times in verse); Isaiah 57:7; Jeremiah 46:16; Jeremiah 48:2; Jeremiah 51:44; Hosea 7:9; Psalm 41:10; Psalm 84:7; Psalm 139:12; Isaiah 66:8 כִּי־חָ֫לָה גַּם־יָָֽלְדָה, צִיּוֺן אֶת־בָּנֶיהָ, Jeremiah 5:28; Jeremiah 12:2; Ezekiel 24:5; Job 21:7; Songs 8:1: emphasizing an extreme, or aggravated, case, yea, even, Isaiah 49:15 yea, these may forgot, Jeremiah 8:17 yea, the stork knoweth, etc., Isaiah 23:12 גַּם שָׁם even there no rest shall be for thee (so Psalm 139:10), Isaiah 49:25; Isaiah 57:6; Jeremiah 23:11b; Malachi 3:15; Psalm 84:4.
4. expressing correspondence, especially in the matter of retribution (the גַּם correlativum), so frequently גַּם אֲנִי, גַּם אָנֹכִי I also (on my part): — Genesis 20:6 I also [as well as thyself] know that thou hast done this innocently, Joshua 24:18; Judges 2:21; 1 Samuel 1:28 (compare Dr) 1 Samuel 28:22 גַּם אַתָּה thou also (as I have done 1 Samuel 28:21), 2 Samuel 12:13 י׳ also [responding to thy confession] hath removed thy sin, 2 Kings 2:3, 5; Isaiah 31:2; Isaiah 66:3-4 (גם⬩⬩⬩גם, emphasizing the action of both parties), Jeremiah 2:36; Jeremiah 4:12 now will I also [in correspondence with their deeds] speak judgments with them, Jeremiah 7:11; Jeremiah 51:49 (גם⬩⬩⬩גם), Ezekiel 5:8, 11; Ezekiel 16:43 (וְגַם = therefore also), Ezekiel 23:35; Hosea 4:6 because thou hast forgotten the direction of thy God, I also (on my part) will forget thy children, Psalm 52:7 (thou lovest evil, etc.) גַּם אֵל יִתָּצְךָ God also (on his part) will pluck thee up, Psalm 71:22; Psalm 133:1; Proverbs 1:26; Job 7:11; Job 12:3; Job 16:4; so וְגַם Judges 2:3; Amos 4:6, 7; Micah 6:13; Malachi 2:9. In the apodosis (uncommon): Genesis 13:16 if a man could number the dust of the earth, גַּם זַרְעֲךָ יִמָּנֶה thy seed also should be numbered, Jeremiah 31:36, 37; Jeremiah 33:21, 26; Zechariah 8:6. The correspondence is sometimes of the nature of a climax: Genesis 27:33; Genesis 30:8 I have wrestled, גַּם יָכֹלְתִּי (compare 1 Kings 22:22 וְגַם תּוּכָ֔ל, Jeremiah 50:24), Isaiah 66:8.
5. connecting two ideas which express (or imply) a contradiction, גַּם acquires sometimes an adversative force (compare אַף 1 end), yet, but, though: Psalm 95:9 they tried me, but also (Che) saw my work (namely of judgment), Psalm 129:2; Jeremiah 6:15 = Jeremiah 8:12; Ezekiel 20:23; Ecclesiastes 4:8, 16; Ecclesiastes 5:18; Nehemiah 6:1. So וְגַם Ezekiel 16:28; Ezekiel 20:15; Ecclesiastes 3:13; Ecclesiastes 6:7; Nehemiah 5:8.
6. גַּם כִּי (with imperfect) yea, when Lamentations 3:8, even when Proverbs 22:6; yea though (stating an imagined case) Isaiah 1:15; Hosea 8:10; Hosea 9:16; Psalm 23:4 (so גַּם אִם Ecclesiastes 8:17); also (is it) that Ruth 2:21 (see H3588 כִּי 1d). כִּי גַם = for even (see above 2); = though even, although (conceding a fact) Ecclesiastes 4:14 (see De) Ecclesiastes 8:12.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

3:6; 4:4; 4:22; 4:26; 6:4; 7:3; 10:21; 13:16; 14:16; 15:14; 16:13; 17:16; 19:21; 19:38; 20:4; 20:5; 20:6; 20:6; 20:12; 22:20; 22:24; 24:14; 24:19; 24:25; 24:44; 24:46; 26:21; 27:31; 27:33; 27:33; 27:34; 27:45; 29:27; 30:6; 30:8; 30:8; 30:15; 31:15; 32:20; 37:7; 38:24; 42:28; 43:8; 44:16; 46:4; 47:3; 47:19; 48:11

Exodus

2:19; 3:9; 4:9; 4:10; 4:14; 5:2; 8:28; 10:25; 12:32; 34:3

Numbers

11:15; 16:13; 18:3; 22:33; 23:25

Deuteronomy

1:37; 3:20; 12:31; 22:22; 23:3; 23:4; 23:19; 28:61

Joshua

7:11; 24:18

Judges

2:3; 2:21; 3:31; 5:4; 6:35; 8:22; 8:31; 9:19; 9:49

Ruth

1:5; 2:15; 2:21

1 Samuel

1:6; 1:28; 2:26; 4:17; 10:11; 10:12; 12:14; 19:20; 19:21; 19:22; 19:23; 19:23; 19:24; 19:24; 20:27; 21:9; 22:7; 22:17; 24:12; 25:43; 26:25; 28:6; 28:20; 28:21; 28:22

2 Samuel

11:12; 12:13; 17:5; 17:10; 17:12; 17:13; 19:31

1 Kings

3:26; 17:20; 21:19; 22:22

2 Kings

2:3; 2:5; 9:27

Nehemiah

5:8; 6:1

Esther

7:8; 7:9

Job

2:10; 7:11; 12:3; 16:4; 21:7; 21:7; 24:19; 41:1

Psalms

14:3; 23:4; 41:10; 49:3; 52:7; 53:4; 71:22; 78:20; 84:4; 84:7; 95:9; 107:5; 118:11; 129:2; 132:12; 133:1; 137:1; 139:10; 139:12

Proverbs

1:26; 14:13; 14:20; 17:15; 17:28; 20:10; 20:11; 20:12; 22:6

Ecclesiastes

3:13; 4:8; 4:14; 4:16; 5:18; 6:7; 8:12; 8:17; 9:6

Song of Songs

8:1

Isaiah

1:15; 7:13; 13:3; 14:8; 14:10; 23:12; 26:12; 26:12; 31:2; 43:13; 44:12; 47:3; 48:8; 49:15; 49:25; 57:6; 57:7; 66:3; 66:4; 66:8; 66:8

Jeremiah

2:33; 2:36; 4:12; 5:28; 6:11; 6:15; 7:11; 8:12; 8:17; 12:2; 12:6; 12:6; 12:6; 14:5; 23:11; 25:14; 27:7; 31:36; 31:37; 33:21; 33:26; 46:16; 48:2; 48:7; 48:26; 50:24; 51:12; 51:44; 51:49

Lamentations

3:8; 4:15

Ezekiel

5:8; 5:11; 16:28; 16:43; 16:52; 20:15; 20:23; 23:35; 24:5

Hosea

4:6; 7:9; 8:10; 9:12; 9:16

Amos

4:6; 4:7

Micah

6:13

Nahum

3:11

Zechariah

8:6

Malachi

2:9; 3:15

H1571

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Strong's Number H1571 matches the Hebrew גַּם (gam),
which occurs 28 times in 21 verses in 'Jdg' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:3 - And Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites. And I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you.” So Simeon went with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:22 - The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the LORD was with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:3 - So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:10 - And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17 - Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:21 - I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:22 - And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the dung came out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:31 - After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:4 - “LORD, when you went out from Seir,
when you marched from the region of Edom,
the earth trembled
and the heavens dropped,
yes, the clouds dropped water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:35 - And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they too were called out to follow him. And he sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they went up to meet them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:18 - When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and shout, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:9 - And he said to the men of Penuel, “When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:22 - Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:31 - And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:19 - if you then have acted in good faith and integrity with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - So every one of the people cut down his bundle and following Abimelech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about 1,000 men and women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:9 - And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:17 - Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:2 - And he said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:19 - We have straw and feed for our donkeys, with bread and wine for me and your female servant and the young man with your servants. There is no lack of anything.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - And the men of Israel turned back against the people of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, the city, men and beasts and all that they found. And all the towns that they found they set on fire.
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