Gad
(Hebrew: גד ; "luck") was, according to the Book of Genesis,
the first son of Jacob and Zilpah, the seventh of Jacob
overall, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Gad;
however some Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an
eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the
connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite
confeder...
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(gadh, "fortune"; Gad):
1. The Name:
The seventh son of Jacob, whose mother was Zilpah (Gen
30:11), and whose birth was welcomed by Leah with the cry,
"Fortunate!" Some have sought to connect the name with that
of the heathen deity Gad, of which traces are found in Baal-
gad, Migdal-gad, etc. In the blessing of Jacob (Gen 49:19)
there is...
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1. Jacob's seventh son
Ge 30:11; 35:26; Ex 1:4
Children of
Ge 46:16; Nu 26:15-18; 1Ch 5:11
Prophecy concerning
Ge 49:19
-2. A tribe of Israel
Blessed by Moses
De 33:20
Enumeration of, at Sinai
Nu 1:14,24,25
In the plains of Moab
Nu 26:15-18
In the reign of Jotham
1Ch 5:11-17
Place of, in camp and march
Nu 2:10,14,16
Wealth of, in c...
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(a troop).
1. Jacob's seventh son, the first-born of Zilpah,
Leah's maid, and whole-brother to Asher. Ge 30;11-13; 46:16,18
(B.C. 1753-1740.)
2. "The seer," or "the king's seer," i.e. David's 1Ch
29:29; 2Ch 29:25 was a "prophet" who appears to have joined
David when in the old. 1Sa 22:5 (B.C. 1061.) He reappears in
connection with the punish...
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fortune; luck. (1.) Jacob's seventh son, by Zilpah, Leah's
handmaid, and the brother of Asher (Gen. 30:11-13;
46:16, 18).
In the Authorized Version of 30:11 the words, "A
troop cometh:
and she called," etc., should rather be rendered,
"In fortune
[R.V., 'Fortunate']: and she called," etc., or
"Fortune cometh,"
etc.
The tribe of Gad during...
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Israel was more wooded very anciently than afterward; the
celebrated oaks and terebinths here and there were perhaps
relics of a primeval forest on the highlands. But in the
Bible the woods appear in the valleys and defiles leading
from the highlands to the lowlands, so they were not
extensive. "The wood of Ephraim" clothed the sides of the
h...
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