H1409

גָּד

gadH:N-M

fortune

fortune, good fortune

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

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 WeSkizzen iii. 171; גד named often in Phoenician & Aramaic inscriptions, & found in Phoenician & Aramaic proper name, BaeRel 76 f. NöZMG 1888, 479; see especially SiegfJPTh 1875, 356 ff.) — with לְ + article לַגַּד Isa 65:11 compare Che.


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