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גָּדַד

gadad · cut oneself, gather

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1413 · appears 8 times in the Bible

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What it means

gadad (גָּדַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cut oneself, gather”.

Cut oneself: wound one's body, as a rite of mourning; also to gather in troops.

How to say it

ga·dad

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. Gashing one's skin as a sign of mourning, a pagan custom.
  2. To form armed groups, sometimes to attack.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • They band together ×1
  • cut themselves ×1
  • cut yourselves ×1
  • cutting themselves ×1
  • gather yourself in bands ×1
  • they crowded together ×1
  • will anyone make incisions ×1
  • will you gash yourself ×1

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Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Deuteronomy 14:1

    You are sons of YHWH your Elohim. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness between your eyes for the dead,

  • 1 Kings 18:28

    They called out with a loud voice, and cut themselves, according to their custom, with swords and spears, until blood poured out on them.

  • Psalms 94:21

    They band together against the soul of the righteous, and innocent blood they declare guilty.

  • Jeremiah 5:7

    “Why should I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken me and sworn by what is not Elohim. I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and at the house of a prostitute they crowded together.

  • Jeremiah 16:6

    And great and small will die in this land; they will not be buried, nor will people mourn for them, nor will anyone make incisions, nor shave himself bald for them.

  • Jeremiah 41:5

    that men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men, with their beards shaved and their garments torn and cutting themselves, with a grain offering and frankincense in their hand to bring to the house of YHWH.

  • Jeremiah 47:5

    Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has been silenced, the remnant of their valley. How long will you gash yourself?

  • Micah 5:1

    Now gather yourself in bands, daughter of bands; a siege he has laid against us; with the rod they will strike on the cheek the judge of Israel.