גָּדִישׁ
heap
also: stack, pile fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H1430 appears — 4 distinct verses across 3 books. 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.
Exodus 1 verse
Judges 1 verse
Job 2 verses
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.
גדיש — transliterated gâdîysh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “heap.” A scarce word — 4 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. More than half of its appearances fall in Job. Debuting at Exodus 22:6, it then recurs through the corpus. The lexical range runs to 2 senses — “heap” plus “stack” and “pile”. See the sense tree, 4-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1430 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 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 4 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 50%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 25%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 25%
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†: Both the shocks 1×, Like as a shock of corn 1×, Stacks of corn 1×
- American Standard Version†: Both the shocks 1×, Like as a shock of grain 1×, Or the standing grain 1×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Like a sheaf of grain 1×, Piles of grain 1×, Stacked 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Stack 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1430 across 4† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1430 across 5† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1430 across 4† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1430 across 5† 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 2 senses 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.
- heap, stack, pile
- tomb
Word origin
I. n.m. Jb 5:26 heap, stack (NH id., Aramaic id.)—גָּדִישׁ Ex 22:5 + 3 times;—stack of sheaves Ex 22:5 Ju 15:5 (‖ קָמָה in both) Jb 5:26.
II. n.[m.] tomb (Arabic جَدَثٌ id.) Jb 21:32; Dr§ 178, ed. 3, p. 229 suggests reading גֶּדֶשׁ.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root (meaning to heap up)
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.
גְּדִישׁ
- (גדש) heaped, liberal measure. Esth. R. to I, 4; v. גְּדִיל.
גָּדִישׁ I
- a heap, esp. of sheaves, shock or stack of grain; [in b. h. also mound]. B. Mets. V, 7 פוסק עמו על הג׳ he may conclude a bargain with him (the early harvester) for the grain in the stack (though no price has been published as yet). Peah VI, 2. Yad. IV, 7.—Pl. גְּדִישִׁים, גְּדִישִׁין. Gen. R. s. 51 end. B. Kam. 60ᵇ. Pesik. Shubah p. 164ᵃ ג׳ ג׳ של עבירות heaps of sins; a. e. [V. גָּדוּשׁ.]
גָּדִישׁ
- , pile; mound, Targ. Y. Ex. XXII, 5. Targ. Job V, 26.—Y. Sabb. XVI, 15ᵈ, end, spread his cloak על ג׳ over a burning stalk.—Pl. גְּדִישִׁין. Targ. O. Ex. XXII, 5. Targ. Job XXI, 32.
גַּדֵּישׁ
- (גְּדַשׁ II) staff, leader of a blind man. Lev. R. s. 22; Yalk. Koh. 972 והוה ההיא … ג׳ ליה וכ׳ and the seeing man was a leader to the blind man.
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 4 distinct written forms H1430 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| גָּדִ֔ישׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Exodus 22:6 | 1 |
| גָּדִ֣ישׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 5:26 | 1 |
| גָּדִ֥ישׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Job 21:32 | 1 |
| מִ/גָּדִ֥ישׁ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Judges 15:5 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
