גְּדֵרָה
Gederah
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Gederah’ 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
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1449 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
Joshua 1 verse
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.
גדרה (Gᵉdêrâh) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Gederah.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. Joshua dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Its lone occurrence is Joshua 15:36. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1449 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Joshua 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
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: Gederah 1×
- American Standard Version: Gederah 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gederah 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Gederah 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1449 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1449 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1449 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1449 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- Gederah = "wall"
- a town of Judah in the lowland country
Word origin
n.f. wall—גְּדֵרָה 1 Ch 4:23 + ψ 62:4 (MT גָּדֵר q.v.), גְּדֶרֶת Ez 13:5 (Co, cf. 𝔊; MT גָּדֵר) 42:12 (del. Co); pl. גְּדֵרוֹת Na 3:17 + 2 times, גְּדֵרֹת Nu 32:24; cstr. גִּדְרוֹת Nu 32:26 + 2 times, גִּדְרֹת Nu 32:16; sf. גְּדֵרֹתָיו ψ 89:41;—wall, hedge 1 Ch 4:23 (or is this n.pr.loc.? cf. Öt) Na 3:17 (where grasshoppers alight), Je 49:3; wall, connected with Ezekiel’s temple Ez 42:12 (del. Co); defences ψ 89:41; elsewhere ג׳ צאן sheep-folds Nu 32:16, 36 1 S 24:4 Zp 2:6 cf. Nu 32:24; Ez 13:5 Co גְּדֶרֶת after 𝔊; ψ 62:4 MT גדר הדחויה, read גדרה ד׳ cf. גָּדֵר.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from גדרה (gᵉdêrâh) (H1448) — wall.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1449, 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.
- גדרות Gᵉdêrôwth H1450 Gederoth
- גדרתים Gᵉdêrôthayim H1453 Gederothaim
- גדרתי Gᵉdêrâthîy H1452 Gederathite
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Gederah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
The fortress; a fortified place, a town in the plain (shephelah) of Judah (Josh. 15:36). This is a very common Canaanite and Phoenician name. It is the feminine form of Geder (12:13); the plural form is Gederoth (15:41). This place has by some been identified with Jedireh, a ruin 9 miles from Lydda, toward Eleutheropolis, and 4 miles north of Sur'ah (Zorah), in the valley of Elah.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(a sheepfold), a town of Judah in the lowland country, (Joshua 15:36) apparently in its eastern part. No town bearing this name has, however, been yet discovered in this hitherto little-explored district.
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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