Gad
ga.di identifies a Gadite person or the Gadites as a group, especially in inheritance, territorial, and tribal lists.
The attested use is a Gentilic designation for a Gadite individual or collective group. It occurs in tribal and inheritance notices, descriptions of territory, military and administrative settings, and an individual identification.
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Gadite person or tribal group · dominant
The singular masculine Gentilic form identifies people associated with the Gadites, whether alongside the Reubenites and the half-tribe of Manasseh in inheritance and territorial statements or as an individual designation. In Deuteronomy 3:12 the APB renders land given to “the Reubenite and to the Gadite,” while in 1 Chronicles 26:32 it renders the collective group among those placed under administrative oversight; 2 Samuel 23:36 identifies Bani as “the Gadite.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: Where the clause makes the correspondence clear, the APB uses “Gadite” for an individual and “Gadites” for the group, as in 2 Samuel 23:36 and 1 Chronicles 26:32. In some verses the translation gives the wider clause without isolating the term's contribution, so its wording is not consistently one-to-one.