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Lexicon :: Strong's H1406 - gāḡ

Aa
גָּג
Transliteration
gāḡ
Pronunciation
gawg
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably by reduplication from גָּאָה (H1342)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 312

Strong’s Definitions

גָּג gâg, gawg; probably by reduplication from H1342; a roof; by analogy, the top of an altar:—roof (of the house), (house) top (of the house).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x

The KJV translates Strong's H1406 in the following manner: roof (12x), housetop (8x), top (6x), ... house (4x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 30x
The KJV translates Strong's H1406 in the following manner: roof (12x), housetop (8x), top (6x), ... house (4x).

  1. roof, top, housetop

    1. roof (of house)

    2. top (of altar of incense)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גָּג gâg, gawg; probably by reduplication from H1342; a roof; by analogy, the top of an altar:—roof (of the house), (house) top (of the house).
STRONGS H1406: Abbreviations
† גָּג noun masculine roof, top (Late Hebrew id.; Di compare Ethiopic ጋግ፡ ጋጋ፡ vinculum (ferreum), jugo simil. collare ferreum; √ dubious; Thes proposes גגג; perhaps גנג (= גנגן) cover Bö§ 292 Sta§ 189 a MV) — גָּג Joshua 2:6 + 9 times + 1 Samuel 9:26 Kt (Qr גָּ֫גָה), גָּ֫גָה Joshua 2:6; 1 Samuel 9:26 Qr (Kt גג); construct Judges 9:51 + 2 times + Ezekiel 40:13 (strike out Co see below); suffix גַּגֶּךָ֑ Deuteronomy 22:8, גַּגּוֺ Exodus 30:3 + 2 times + Ezekiel 40:13 (strike out Co see below); plural גַּגּוֺת Isaiah 37:27 + 5 times; suffix גַּגּוֺתֶיהָ Isaiah 15:3, גַּגּוֺתֵיהֶם Jeremiah 32:29, גַּגֹּתֵיהֶם Jeremiah 19:13; —
1. roof (of house) Deuteronomy 22:8; Joshua 2:6 (twice in verse); Joshua 2:8; Joshua 16:27; 1 Samuel 9:25, 26; 2 Samuel 11:2 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 16:22; 2 Kings 19:26 = Isaiah 37:27; Nehemiah 8:16; Psalm 102:8; Psalm 129:6; Proverbs 21:9; Proverbs 25:24; Isaiah 15:3; Isaiah 22:1; Jeremiah 48:38; as places of idolatrous worship (especially of heavenly bodies) Jeremiah 19:13; Jeremiah 32:29; Zephaniah 1:5; so הַגָּג עֲלִיַּת אָחָז 2 Kings 23:12, roof of tower Judges 9:51, over gate 2 Samuel 18:24, of chamber Ezekiel 40:13 (twice in verse) (but Greek Version of the LXX Co קיר).
2. top of altar of incense, in tabernacle Exodus 30:3; Exodus 37:26 (both P).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

30:3; 30:3; 37:26

Deuteronomy

22:8; 22:8

Joshua

2:6; 2:6; 2:6; 2:8

Judges

9:51; 9:51

1 Samuel

9:25; 9:26; 9:26; 9:26

2 Samuel

11:2; 16:22; 18:24

2 Kings

19:26; 23:12

Nehemiah

8:16

Psalms

102:8; 129:6

Proverbs

21:9; 25:24

Isaiah

15:3; 15:3; 22:1; 37:27; 37:27

Jeremiah

19:13; 19:13; 32:29; 32:29; 48:38

Ezekiel

40:13; 40:13; 40:13

Zephaniah

1:5

H1406

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Strong's Number H1406 matches the Hebrew גָּג (gāḡ),
which occurs 31 times in 27 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:3 - It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:26 - The top and the sides and the horns were all plated with the best gold; and he put an edge of gold all round it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:8 - If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:6 - But she had taken them up to the roof, covering them with the stems of flax which she had put out in order there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:8 - And before the men went to rest, she came up to them on the roof,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:51

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:51 - But in the middle of the town there was a strong tower, to which all the men and women of the town went in flight and, shutting themselves in, went up to the roof of the tower.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27 - Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and about three thousand men and women were on the roof, looking on while Samson made sport.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:25 - And when they had come down from the high place into the town, where a bed was made ready for Saul, he went to rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:26 - And about dawn Samuel said to Saul on the roof, Get up so that I may send you away. So Saul got up, and he and Samuel went out together.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:2 - Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 16:22 - So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24 - Now David was seated between the two town doors; and the watchman went up to the roof of the doorways, on the wall, and, lifting up his eyes, saw a man running by himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26 - This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:16 - And the people went out and got them and made themselves tents, every one on the roof of his house, and in the open spaces and in the open squares of the house of God, and in the wide place of the water-doorway, and the wide place of the doorway of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:7 - I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:6 - Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:9 - It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:24 - It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:3 - In their streets they are covering themselves with haircloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their public places, there is crying and bitter weeping.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:1 - The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:27

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:27 - This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:13 - And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which they have made unclean, will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to other gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:29 - And the Chaldaeans, who are fighting against this town, will come and put the town on fire, burning it together with the houses, on the roofs of which perfumes have been burned to the Baal, and drink offerings have been drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:38 - On all the house-tops of Moab and in its streets there is weeping everywhere; for Moab has been broken like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:13 - And he took the measure of the doorway from the back of one room to the back of the other, twenty-five cubits across, from door to door.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:5 - And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,
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