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Strong's #1410 - גָּד
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- Gad = "troop"
- seventh son of Jacob by Zilpah, Leah´s handmaid, and full brother of Asher.
- the tribe descended from Gad
- a prophet during the time of David; appears to have joined David when in the hold; reappears in connection with the punishment for taking a census; also assisted in the arrangements for the musical service of the "house of God"
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1 son of Jacob and Zilpah;
a. strictly as personal name Genesis 30:11; Genesis 35:26; Genesis 46:16; Exodus 1:4 compare Genesis 49:19; 1 Chronicles 2:2.
b. as name of tribe Numbers 1:14; Deuteronomy 27:13; Deuteronomy 33:20 (twice in verse); Joshua 18:7; Ezekiel 48:27,28; compare אֶרֶץ גָּד 1 Samuel 13:7 see also Jeremiah 49:1, שַׁעַד גָּד Ezekiel 48:34, on הַנַּחַלהַגָּד 2 Samuel 24:5 compare We Dr; explicitly מַטֵּה גָּד Numbers 1:25; Numbers 2:14; Numbers 13:15; Joshua 13:24; Joshua 20:8; Joshua 21:7,36; 1 Chronicles 6:48; 1 Chronicles 6:65; once, צְבָא מַטֵּה בְנֵיגָֿד Numbers 10:20; בְּנֵי גָד (MI10 אש גד) Numbers 1:24 12t. Numbers; Joshua 4:12 14t. Joshua; 1 Chronicles 5:11; 1 Chronicles 12:14.
2 a prophet in David's time, calledנָבִיא 1 Samuel 22:5, but הַנָּבִיא חֹזֶה דָוִד 2 Samuel 24:11 & חֹזֵהדָוִיד "" 1 Chronicles 21:9, הַחֹזֶה 1 Chronicles 29:29 & חֹזֵההַֿמֶּלֶךְ 2 Chronicles 29:25.
גָּד m.
(t) fortune, i.q. גַּד No. 2; compare the root No. 3. (Arab. جَدُّ and Syr. ܓܕܰܐܳ id. جَدَّ to be fortunate, rich; جَدِيدُ fortunate.) Genesis 30:11. כתיב, בְּגָד. LXX. ἐν τύχῃ. Vulg. feliciter, sc. this happens to me. קרי, בָּא גָד “fortune has come.”
(2) Gad, pr.n.
(a) of a son of Jacob, taking his name from good fortune (Genesis 30:11); although, Genesis 49:19, allusion is made to another signification of it. [The Scripture account must be the correct one.] He was the ancestor of the tribe of the same name, whose limits are described in the mountains of Gilead (Deuteronomy 3:12, 16 ), between Manasseh and Reuben, -Josh. 13:2428 ; compare Numbers 32:34, 35 Numbers 32:35, 36 Numbers 32:36; Ezekiel 48:27, 28 Ezekiel 48:28. נַחַל הַגָּד “the stream of Gad,” i.e. Jabbok (not Arnon), 2 Samuel 24:5. Gent. noun is גָּדִי (different from גַּדִּי), mostly collect. הַגָּדִי Gadites, Deuteronomy 3:12; Joshua 22:1.
(b) a prophet who flourished in the time of David, 1 Samuel 22:5; 2 Samuel 24:11, seq.