גְּדֵרָהgᵉdêrâh

wall, hedge (1 Chronicles 4:23; Psalms 62:4; Ezekiel 13:5; Ezekiel 42:12; Nahum 3:17)

Pronunciation: ghed-ay-raw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1448

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 9 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 32:16 But they approached Moses and said, “We simply want to build pens for our livestock and fortified towns for our wives and children.
  • Numbers 32:24 Go ahead and build towns for your families and pens for your flocks, but do everything you have promised.”
  • Numbers 32:36 Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran. These were all fortified towns with pens for their flocks.
  • 1 Samuel 24:3 At the place where the road passes some sheepfolds, Saul went into a cave to relieve himself. But as it happened, David and his men were hiding farther back in that very cave!
  • Psalms 89:40 You have broken down the walls protecting him and ruined every fort defending him.
  • Jeremiah 49:3 “Cry out, O Heshbon, for the town of Ai is destroyed. Weep, O people of Rabbah! Put on your clothes of mourning. Weep and wail, hiding in the hedges, for your god Molech, with his priests and officials, will be hauled off to distant lands.
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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).