Lexical Definition

‎גָּד‎ gâd (gawd) fortune ^H:N-M
from ‎גּוּד‎ (in the sense of distributing)

troop.

• fortune

1) fortune, good fortune

Brown-Driver-Briggs

II. [‎גַּד‎]

1. noun [masculine] fortune, good fortune (Arabic id., Aramaic ‎גַּדָּא‎, ) — Gen 30:11 ‎בּגד‎ Kt, i.e. ‎בְּגָד‎ (‎בָּא גָד֑‎ Qr), ᵐ5 ἐν τύχῃ, by or with good fortune.

2. proper name, masculine god of fortune (Arabic We^{Skizzen iii. 171}; ‎גד‎ named often in Phoenician & Aramaic inscriptions, & found in Phoenician & Aramaic proper name, Bae^{Rel 76 f.} Nö^{ZMG 1888, 479}; see especially Siegf^{JPTh 1875, 356 ff.}) — with ‎לְ‎ + article ‎לַגַּד‎ Isa 65:11 compare Che.

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