Lexical Definition

‎גָּדִי‎ Gâdîy (gaw-dee') Gad ^N:N--PG
patronymically from ‎גָּד‎

Gadites, children of Gad.

• § Gadite = "an invader: a troop: fortune"
• a Gadite (collectively) or descendants of Gad

1) one of the tribe descended from Gad

Extended Information

name of: גָּד

• Spomeone from the tribe of Gad living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.30.11
• son of: Israel (יִשְׂרָאֵל) and Zilpah (זִלְפָּה)
• brother of: Asher (אָשֵׁר)
• half-brother of: Reuben (רְאוּבֵן), Simeon (שִׁמְעוֹן), Levi (לֵוִי), Judah (יְהוּדָה), Dan (דָּן), Naphtali (נַפְתָּלִי), Issachar (יִשָּׂשכָר), Zebulun (זְבוּלוּן), Dinah (דִּינָה), Joseph (יוֹסֵף) and Benjamin (בִּנְיָמִין)
• father of: Ziphion (צִפְיוֹן), Haggi (חַגִּי), Shuni (שׁוּנִי), Ezbon (אֶצְבּוֹן), Eri (עֵרִי), Arod (אֲרוֹד) and Areli (אַרְאֵלִי)
• Another name of gad (‎ג‎ָּ‎ד‎ "Gad" גָּד)

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎גָּדִי‎ adjective, of a people of ‎גָּד‎ 1, Gadite 2Sam 23:36 (so perhaps also || 1Chr 11:38 where ᵑ0 ‎הַגְרִי‎ q. v.; compare Th Be Dr); elsewhere as proper name collective: so 1Chr 5:18 (only here without article, read perhaps ‎גָּד‎ so ᵐ5), Deut 3:12; Deut 3:16; Deut 4:43; Deut 29:7*; Josh 1:12; Josh 12:6; Josh 13:8; Josh 22:1; 2Kgs 10:33; 1Chr 5:26; 1Chr 12:8*; 1Chr 12:37*; 1Chr 26:32.

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