גְּדִי
kid
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
1 verse where H1423 appears in the Absolute state in the Book of Judges. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Judges
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
גדי (gᵉdîy) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “kid.” Its English rendering has broadened — “kid” classically, “young goat” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 16 verses — uncommon. Genesis dominates its distribution — 5 of 16 verses. It first appears in Genesis 27:9. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1423 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 16
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 16 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,752
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,752 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 16 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 16 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 8 verses · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 verses · 50%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Kid 11×, Kids 3×
- American Standard Version: Kid 9×, Kids 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Young goat 11×, Young goats 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Kid 5×, Kid of 5×, Young goat 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1423 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1423 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1423 across 16 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1423 across 17 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- kid, young male goat
Word origin
n.m. Gn 27, 9 kid (NH id., Arabic جَدْىٌ Ph. גדא, Aramaic גַּדְיָא, ܓܰܕܝܳܐ; cf. Assyrian gadû, gadiia, Meissner ZA iv. 1889, 286 ZehnpfundBAS i. 505)—גְּדִי Gn 38:17 + 12 times (abs. Gn 38:23 +, & (generally) cstr. Gn 38:17 +); pl. גְּדָיִים 1 S 10:3, cstr. גְּדָיֵי Gn 27:9, 16;—kid, almost always ג׳ עִזִּים Gn 27:9, 16; 38:17, 20 Ju 6:19; 13:15, 19; 15:1 1 S 16:20; abs. Ex 23:19; 34:26 Dt 14:21 (all לא תבשׁל ג׳ בחלב אמו), & c. art. הַגּ׳ Gn 38:23 Ju 14:6; abs. pl. 1 S 10:3;—cf. also עֵין גֶּ֫דִי.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from גדה (gâdâh) (H1415) — river bank.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
*גְּדֵי
- (v. גדד I) to cut, divide, assign.
- to cut off, excommunicate. Nidd. 36ᵇ ואי לא צאית גַּרְיֵיה הוא סבר גַּדְּיֵיה א"ל and if he does not obey, drag him over (v. גרי, i.e. force him with arguments), but he (R. Assé) understood that he told him gadd’yeh (excommunicate him). Ib. לא ציית גדייה he (Shila bar Abina) did not obey, and he (R. Assé) excommunicated him (Rashi). [Tosaf. read for גרייה: גַּדְיֵיה, fr. גדי, a sec. form of נגד, draw him over.—Ar. s. v. צנע 2 reads גַּדְּדֵיה lash him (ref. to Deut. XIV, 1), without referring to any misapprehension, while s. v. גר 10 הוא סבר גרייה א"ל is quoted—obviously a later insertion of a copyist.] e.g. Deuteronomy 14:1
גְּדִי
- (b. h.)
- 1. kid, in gen. young animal. Ḥull. 113ᵃ; 113ᵇ (ref. to Gen. XXXVIII, 17) כאן ג׳ עזים וכ׳ here it reads g’di izzim from which we learn that wherever g’di without any qualification is used, it includes cow and sheep. Men. XIII, 7; a. fr.—Pl. גְּדָיִם, גְּדָיִים. Snh. 11ᵃ; Tosef. ib. II, 4 מפני הג׳ וכ׳ on account of the kids or lambs (being too young for offerings on Passover).—Y. ib. X, 28ᵇ bot.; Gen. R. s. 42, a. e. אם אין ג׳ אין תישים when there will be no kids (young students), there will be no wethers (leaders, scholars). Y. ib. I, 19ᵃ top ג׳ שהנחת וכ׳ the kids (young scholars) thou hast left behind (in Palestine) have grown to be wethers; a. e.—Trnsf. the tender grain in its husks. Pesik. Asser p. 99ᵇ; Tanḥ. R’eh 17; Yalk. Deut. 892 (homiletic interpret. of Deut. XV, 21) אל תגרמו לי לבשל ג׳ וכ׳ do not cause me to ripen the grains in their mothers’ womb (husks, so as to be blown out by the East wind). e.g. Genesis 38:17
- 2. the Capricorn, a sign in the Zodiac. Pesik. R. s. 20. Yalk. Ex. 418; Kings 185. [Yalk. Num. 785 הרי נכנס הזאב לגדי, v. גדיגוד.]
גְּדִי ²
- Targ. O. Gen. XXXVIII, 17; 20 (Y. גידי, גירי (?)); 23 O. a. Y. גַּדְיָא.—Pes. 3ᵇ גדי מסנקן, v. סְנַק. Sabb. 18ᵇ דג׳ (בשרא) meat of a kid. Ib. 20ᵃ. Ḥull. 51ᵃ—Pl. גְּדִין, גְּדָאִין, גַּדְיָין, constr. גַּדְיֵי, גְּדָיֵי. Targ. Deut. XIV, 4. Targ. Gen. XXVII, 16 ed. Berl. גְּדֵי; 9 גַּדְיֵי; a. e. Midr. Sam. ch. XX (expl. חריצי החלב I Sam. XVII, 18) גדיין מניעין וכ׳ kids taken away from their mothers.—גַּדְיָיתָא. Targ. Y. Num. XV, 27 (h. text עֵז). e.g. 1 Samuel 17:18
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms H1423 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| גְּדִ֖י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 14:21 | 3 |
| גְּדִ֣י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 11:6 | 2 |
| גְּדִֽי | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 38:17 | 2 |
| בִּ/גְדִ֣י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Judges 15:1 | 1 |
| גְדָיִ֗ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 10:3 | 1 |
| גְּדִ֤י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Judges 13:19 | 1 |
| גְּדִ֥י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Judges 13:15 | 1 |
| גְּדָיֵ֣י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 27:16 | 1 |
| גְּדָיֵ֥י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 27:9 | 1 |
| הַ/גְּדִ֔י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Judges 14:6 | 1 |
| הַ/גְּדִ֣י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 38:23 | 1 |
| וּ/גְדִ֥י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | 1 Samuel 16:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 16 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 16 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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