גָּדָהgâdâh

bank of river (Joshua 3:15; Joshua 4:18; 1 Chronicles 12:16; Isaiah 8:7)

Pronunciation: gaw-daw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1415

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • Joshua 3:15 It was the harvest season, and the Jordan was overflowing its banks. But as soon as the feet of the priests who were carrying the Ark touched the water at the river’s edge,
  • Joshua 4:18 As soon as the priests carrying the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant came up out of the riverbed and their feet were on high ground, the water of the Jordan returned and overflowed its banks as before.
  • 1 Chronicles 12:15 These were the men who crossed the Jordan River during its seasonal flooding at the beginning of the year and drove out all the people living in the lowlands on both the east and west banks.
  • Isaiah 8:7 Therefore, the Lord will overwhelm them with a mighty flood from the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria and all his glory. This flood will overflow all its channels

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).