גְּדַד
gedad · cut down
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H1414 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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gedad (גְּדַד) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “cut down”.
To cut down, to fell (Aramaic).
How to say it
ge·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
- To fell a tree.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Daniel 4:14
He called out with strength and said this: ‘Cut down the tree and cut off its branches; strip off its foliage and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it, and the birds from its branches.
- Daniel 4:23
And as for what the king saw, a watcher and a holy one coming down from the heavens and saying, ‘Cut down the tree and destroy it, but leave the stump of its roots in the earth, and with a band of iron and bronze, in the grass of the field; and with the dew of the heavens let him be drenched, and with the animals of the field be his portion, until seven times pass over him’: