gadar · wall up, build walls

What it means

gadar (גָּדַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “wall up, build walls”.

To build a wall or a stone fence. As the name of a trade, "those who build walls": masons (2 Kings 12:12; 22:6). Figuratively, to repair a breach (Isaiah 58:12) or to block someone's way (Hosea 2:6).

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 put up a barrier or close a gap.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• He has walled ×2
• masons ×2
• He has fenced in ×1
• I will build ×1
• Repairer ×1
• nor built up ×1
• wall up ×1
• who would build up ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×2
• Job×1
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×2
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1

• 2 Kings 12:12

  and to the masons and to the stonecutters, and to buy timber and quarried stones to repair the breaches of the house of YHWH, and for all that was spent on the house to repair it.

• 2 Kings 22:6

  to the carpenters, the builders, and the masons, and to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the house.

• Job 19:8

  He has fenced in my path, and I do not pass; and on my paths he sets darkness.

• Isaiah 58:12

  And those from you will build the ancient ruins; the foundations of generation after generation you will raise up; and you will be called ‘Repairer of breaches, restorer of paths to live in.’

• Lamentations 3:7

  He has walled around me, and I cannot go out; he has made heavy my chains.

• Lamentations 3:9

  He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made crooked my paths.

• Ezekiel 13:5

  You have not gone up into the breaches nor built up a wall around the house of Israel to stand in the battle on the day of YHWH.

• Ezekiel 22:30

  And I sought among them a man who would build up a wall and stand in the breach before me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but I did not find one.

• Hosea 2:6

  Therefore, look, I am hedging up your way with thorns, and I will build her wall, and she will not find her paths.

• Amos 9:11

  On that day I will raise up the fallen booth of David, and wall up their breaches, and raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old;