Lexicon
גָּדִי
ga.di
H1425
N:N--PG Hebrew

Gad

16
Occurrences
6
Books
Hebrew
Language

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.

Senses in use

  1. 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.

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