STRONGS NUMBER H1409


Word Summary
gad: fortune, good fortune
Original Word: גָּד
Transliteration: gad
Phonetic Spelling: (gawd)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: fortune, good fortune
Meaning: fortune, good fortune
Strong's Concordance
troop

From guwd (in the sense of distributing); fortune -- troop.

see HEBREW guwd

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H1409. gad

II. [גַּד‎] 1. noun [masculine] fortune, good fortune (Arabic id., Aramaic גַּדָּא‎, ) — Genesis 30:11 בּגד‎ Kt, i.e. בְּגָד‎ (גָד֑ בָּא‎ Qr), ᵐ5ἐν 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.ZMG 1888, 479; see especially SiegfJPTh 1875, 356 ff.) — with לְ‎ + article לַגַּדIsaiah 65:11 compare Che.