gag · roof, top

What it means

gag (גָּג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “roof, top”.

Roof, the flat top of a house; the top of something.

How to say it

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. The flat upper surface of a house.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• roof ×19
• roofs ×5
• rooftops ×4
• top ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×3
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×4
• 2 Kings×2
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×2
• Zephaniah×1

• Exodus 30:3

  You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around and its horns, and you shall make for it a molding of gold all around.

• Exodus 37:26

  And he overlaid it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around, and its horns; and he made for it a molding of gold all around.

• Deuteronomy 22:8

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

• Joshua 2:6

  But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out on the roof.

• Joshua 2:8

  They had not yet lain down when she came up to them on the roof,

• Judges 9:51

  There was a strong tower in the middle of the city, and all the men and the women and all the lords of the city fled there; they shut it behind them and went up on the roof of the tower.

• Judges 16:27

  Now the house was full of men and women, and there were all the lords of the Philistines; and on the roof were about three thousand men and women who were watching Samson entertain them.

• 1 Samuel 9:25

  And they came down from the high place to the city, and he spoke with Saul on the roof.

• 1 Samuel 9:26

  And they rose early; and it happened, as the dawn came up, that Samuel called to Saul on the roof, saying, “Get up, and I will send you off.” So Saul got up, and the two of them, he and Samuel, went out outside.

• 2 Samuel 11:2

  And it happened, at the time of evening, that David rose from his bed and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

• 2 Samuel 16:22

  So they pitched for Absalom the tent on the roof, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the eyes of all Israel.

• 2 Samuel 18:24

  David was sitting between the two gates. The watchman went to the roof of the gate by the wall, and he lifted up his eyes and looked, and there was a man running alone.

• 2 Kings 19:26

  Their inhabitants, lacking strength, were terrified and put to shame; they were grass of the field and green of new grass, grass on the roofs, scorched before it grows up.

• 2 Kings 23:12

  The altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of YHWH, the king tore down and broke them from there, and threw their dust into the brook Kidron.

• Nehemiah 8:16

  So the people went out and brought them and made themselves booths, each on his roof, and in their courtyards, and in the courts of the house of Elohim, and in the square of the Water Gate and in the square of the Ephraim Gate.

• Psalms 102:7

  I keep watch, and I am like a bird alone on the roof.

• Psalms 129:6

  May they be like grass on the rooftops, which before it is pulled up withers,

• Proverbs 21:9

  Better to live on a corner of the roof than with a woman of quarrels in a shared house.

• Proverbs 25:24

  Better to live on a corner of the roof than with a woman of quarrels in a shared house.

• Isaiah 15:3

  In its streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its squares all of it wails, going down in weeping.

• Isaiah 22:1

  The burden of the valley of Vision. What is the matter with you now, that you have gone up, all of you, to the rooftops,

• Isaiah 37:27

  Their inhabitants, lacking strength, were terrified and put to shame; they were grass of the field and green of new grass, grass on the roofs, and a sown field before it grows up.

• Jeremiah 19:13

  And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be like the place of Topheth, unclean; all the houses on whose roofs they burned incense to all the army of the heavens and poured out libations to other gods.’”

• Jeremiah 32:29

  And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come and set this city on fire and burn it, along with the houses on whose roofs they burned incense to Baal and poured out libations to other gods, to provoke me.

• Jeremiah 48:38

  On all the rooftops of Moab and in its squares all of it is lamentation; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, declares YHWH.

• Ezekiel 40:13

  And he measured the gate from the roof of one guardroom to its roof, a width of twenty-five cubits, entrance opposite entrance.

• Zephaniah 1:5

  and those who bow down on the roofs to the army of the heavens, and those who bow down, who swear to YHWH and swear by their king;

And 3 more times.