gedud · band, raiders

What it means

gedud (גְּדוּד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “band, raiders”.

Band of raiders, troop that attacks by surprise.

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. An armed troop that strikes by surprise.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• band ×14
• bands ×14
• against a troop ×2
• among the troops ×1
• raid ×1
• raiders ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×8
• 1 Chronicles×3
• 2 Chronicles×5
• Job×3
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Hosea×2
• Micah×1

• Genesis 49:19

  Gad, raiders will raid him, but he will raid at their heels.

• 1 Samuel 30:8

  David inquired of YHWH, saying, “Shall I pursue after this band? Will I overtake them?” He said to him, “Pursue, for you will surely overtake and you will surely rescue.”

• 1 Samuel 30:15

  David said to him, “Will you bring me down to this band?” He said, “Swear to me by Elohim that you will not kill me and that you will not deliver me into the hand of my master, and I will bring you down to this band.”

• 1 Samuel 30:23

  David said, “You shall not do so, my brothers, with what YHWH has given us; he has kept us and given the band that came against us into our hand.

• 2 Samuel 3:22

  And look, the servants of David and Joab came from the raid, and they brought much spoil with them; but Abner was not with David in Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.

• 2 Samuel 4:2

  The son of Saul had two men, commanders of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the second Rechab, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the sons of Benjamin; for Beeroth also is counted as part of Benjamin.

• 2 Samuel 22:30

  For by you I run against a troop; by my Elohim I leap over a wall.

• 1 Kings 11:24

  And he gathered men to himself and became chief of a band, when David killed them; and they went to Damascus and lived there, and they reigned in Damascus.

• 2 Kings 5:2

  Aram had gone out in raiding bands and had taken captive from the land of Israel a young girl, and she was before Naaman’s wife.

• 2 Kings 6:23

  He prepared for them a great feast, and they ate and drank, and he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the bands of Aram did not come again into the land of Israel.

• 2 Kings 13:20

  Elisha died, and they buried him. Now bands of Moab used to come into the land at the coming of the year.

• 2 Kings 13:21

  And it happened, as they were burying a man, that, look, they saw the band; and they threw the man into the tomb of Elisha. And the man went down and touched the bones of Elisha, and he came to life and stood up on his feet.

• 2 Kings 24:2

  YHWH sent against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Aram, bands of Moab, and bands of the sons of Ammon; he sent them against Judah to make it perish, according to the word of YHWH that he had spoken through his servants the prophets.

• 1 Chronicles 7:4

  And with them, according to their generations, by their fathers’ houses, were bands of the army of war: thirty-six thousand, for they had many wives and sons.

• 1 Chronicles 12:18

  Then the spirit clothed Amasai, head of the captains: “We are yours, David, and with you, son of Jesse! Peace, peace to you, and peace to the one who helps you, for your Elohim helps you.” And David received them and set them among the heads of the band.

• 1 Chronicles 12:21

  They helped David against the band, for they were all mighty warriors, and they became commanders in the army.

• 2 Chronicles 22:1

  The inhabitants of Jerusalem made king in his place Ahaziah, his youngest son, for the band that came with the Arabs to the camp had killed all the older ones. So Ahaziah son of Joram, king of Judah, reigned.

• 2 Chronicles 25:9

  Amaziah said to the man of Elohim, “And what is to be done about the hundred talents that I have given to the band of Israel?” The man of Elohim said, “YHWH has the means to give you much more than this.”

• 2 Chronicles 25:10

  Amaziah separated them, the band that had come to him from Ephraim, to go to their place; and their anger burned greatly against Judah, and they returned to their place in burning anger.

• 2 Chronicles 25:13

  But the members of the band that Amaziah had sent back from going with him to war made raids on the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck of them three thousand, and plundered much plunder.

• 2 Chronicles 26:11

  Uzziah had a force that made war, going out to the army by bands, according to the number of their count, by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the supervisor, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the commanders of the king.

• Job 19:12

  Together his bands come, and build up their way against me, and encamp around my tent.

• Job 25:3

  Is there a number to his bands? And upon whom does his light not rise?

• Job 29:25

  I chose their way and sat as head, and dwelt like a king among the troops, like one who comforts mourners.

• Psalms 18:29

  For with you I run against a troop; with my Elohim I leap over a wall.

• Jeremiah 18:22

  Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring upon them a raiding band suddenly; for they have dug a pit to capture me, and snares they have hidden for my feet.

• Hosea 6:9

  And as bands of raiders lie in wait for a man, so is the company of priests; on the road they murder toward Shechem, for they commit infamy.

• Hosea 7:1

  When I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the evils of Samaria; for they practice falsehood; and the thief comes in, and the band of raiders raids outside.

• 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.

And 4 more times.