gada · cut down, hew

What it means

gada (גָּדַע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cut down, hew”.

Cut down: fell a tree or a pole; also to cut off or break.

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. To hew down something firm: a tree, an idol, someone's power.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• cut down ×11
• cut ×10
• are hewn down ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×2
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Amos×1
• Zechariah×2

• Deuteronomy 7:5

  But thus you shall do to them: their altars you shall tear down, their standing stones you shall break, their Asherahs you shall cut down, and their carved images you shall burn with fire.

• Deuteronomy 12:3

  You shall tear down their altars, smash their standing stones, burn their Asherahs with fire, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their name from that place.

• Judges 21:6

  And the sons of Israel had compassion on Benjamin their brother and said, “One tribe is cut off today from Israel.

• 1 Samuel 2:31

  Look, days are coming when I will cut off your arm and the arm of the house of your father, so that there will be no old man in your house.

• 2 Chronicles 14:3

  He removed the foreign altars and the high places, broke the standing stones, and cut down the Asherahs.

• 2 Chronicles 31:1

  When all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke the standing stones, cut down the Asherahs, and tore down the high places and the altars from all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had finished. Then all the sons of Israel returned, each to his possession, to their cities.

• 2 Chronicles 34:4

  They tore down before him the altars of the Baals, and the incense altars that were high above them he cut down; and the Asherahs, the carved images, and the molten images he broke and ground to dust, and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

• 2 Chronicles 34:7

  he tore down the altars, and the Asherahs and the carved images he crushed to dust, and all the incense altars he cut down throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

• Psalms 75:10

  And all the horns of the wicked I will cut off; the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.

• Psalms 107:16

  For he has broken doors of bronze, and bars of iron he has cut through.

• Isaiah 9:10

  “Bricks have fallen, but with hewn stone we will build; sycamores have been cut down, but cedars we will put in their place.”

• Isaiah 10:33

  Look, the Lord, YHWH Tsevaot, lops the boughs with terror; and the high of stature are hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low.

• Isaiah 14:12

  How you have fallen from the heavens, Bright Star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!

• Isaiah 22:25

  On that day, declares YHWH Tsevaot, the peg that was driven in a secure place will give way; and it will be cut down and fall, and the burden that was on it will be cut off; for YHWH has spoken.”

• Isaiah 45:2

  “I will go before you and make straight the twisted places; doors of bronze I will break, and bars of iron I will cut through;

• Jeremiah 48:25

  The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken, declares YHWH.

• Jeremiah 50:23

  How it is cut down and broken, the hammer of all the earth! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

• Lamentations 2:3

  He has cut off in burning anger every horn of Israel; he has turned back his right hand before the enemy, and he has burned in Jacob like a fire of flame that devours all around.

• Ezekiel 6:6

  In all your dwelling places the cities will be laid waste, and the high places will be desolate, so that your altars will be laid waste and be guilty, and your idols will be broken and cease, and your incense altars will be cut down, and your works wiped out.

• Amos 3:14

  For on the day I call to account the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also call to account the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.

• Zechariah 11:10

  And I took my staff Pleasantness and cut it, to break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.

• Zechariah 11:14

  And I cut my second staff, Bonds, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.