גָּדִי
Gadite
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Gadite’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1425 appears in the Book of 2 Kings — 1 distinct verse. 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.
2 Kings
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.
At its core, גדי (Gâdîy) means “Gadite.” It first appears in Numbers 34:14. It turns up in 16 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to 1 Chronicles (31%), then Deuteronomy and Joshua. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1425 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 →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 5 verses 31%
- Deuteronomy 4 verses 25%
- Joshua 4 verses 25%
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.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 6 verses · 38%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 31%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 31%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Gadites 14×
- American Standard Version†: Gadites 14×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Gadites 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Gadite 11×, Gadites 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1425 across 16† 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1425 across 16† 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 H1425 across 15† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1425 across 16† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 0 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
גדי I of גָּד 1, Gadite 2 S 23
גדי II m. father of Menahem 2 K 15
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. adj.gent. of גָּד 1, Gadite 2 S 23:36 (so perhaps also ‖ 1 Ch 11:38 where MT הַגְרִי q.v.; cf. Th Be Dr); elsewhere as n.pr. coll.: so 1 Ch 5:18 (only here without art., read perhaps גָּד so 𝔊), Dt 3:12, 16; 4:43; 29:7 Jos 1:12; 12:6; 13:8; 22:1 2 K 10:33 1 Ch 5:26; 12:8, 37; 26:32.
II. n.pr.m. father of Menahem 2 K 15:14, 17 (cf. גדו (? גדי) n.pr.m. EutNab No. 25; Palm. גדיא n.pr.m. VogNo. 32).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from גד (Gâd) (H1410) — Gad.
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 13 distinct written forms H1425 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/לַ/גָּדִ֔י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 5:26 | 3 |
| וְ/לַ/גָּדִ֑י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 29:8 | 2 |
| הַ/גָּדִ֖י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Numbers 34:14 | 1 |
| הַ/גָּדִ֡י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 12:8 | 1 |
| הַ/גָּדִ֥י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Kings 10:33 | 1 |
| הַ/גָּדִֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 23:36 | 1 |
| וְ/גָדִ֜י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 5:18 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/גָּדִ֔י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Joshua 13:8 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/גָּדִ֜י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 12:37 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/גָּדִי֙ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Chronicles 26:32 | 1 |
| וְ/לַ/גָּדִ֜י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 3:16 | 1 |
| וְ/לַ/גָּדִֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 3:12 | 1 |
| לַ/גָּדִ֔י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 4:43 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1425, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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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