גָּדַדgâdad

penetrate, cut

Pronunciation: gaw-dad' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1413

Meanings

Qal: (penetrate, make inroads upon) (Psalms 94:21; Psalms 56:7; Psalms 59:4)

Hithpo`el

1. cut oneself (1 Kings 18:28; Jeremiah 41:5; Deuteronomy 14:1)

2. gather in troops, or bands; go in troops or throngs, throng; (denominative from גְּדוּד q. v.) (Micah 4:14; Jeremiah 5:7)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 14:1 “Since you are the people of the Lord your God, never cut yourselves or shave the hair above your foreheads in mourning for the dead.
  • 1 Kings 18:28 So they shouted louder, and following their normal custom, they cut themselves with knives and swords until the blood gushed out.
  • Psalms 94:21 They gang up against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
  • Jeremiah 5:7 “How can I pardon you? For even your children have turned from me. They have sworn by gods that are not gods at all! I fed my people until they were full. But they thanked me by committing adultery and lining up at the brothels.
  • Jeremiah 16:6 Both the great and the lowly will die in this land. No one will bury them or mourn for them. Their friends will not cut themselves in sorrow or shave their heads in sadness.
  • Jeremiah 41:5 eighty men arrived from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria to worship at the Temple of the Lord. They had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut themselves, and had brought along grain offerings and frankincense.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).