Gadad means “cut selves” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1413 — dynastes (“of great authority”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1413 גָּדַד (gadad) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. gadad (gaw-dad') v. 1. to crowd 2. also to gash (as if by pressing into) It has 8 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include troops and gather. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
gadad (gaw-dad') v. 1. to crowd 2. also to gash (as if by pressing into) [a primitive root] KJV: assemble (selves by troops), gather (selves together, self in troops), cut selves. Compare: H1464
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1413. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to cut
Usage: 1) to penetrate, cut, attack, invade 1a) (Qal) to penetrate, cut into 1b)(Hithpoel) 1b1) to cut oneself 1b2) to gather in troops or crowds Aramaic equivalent: ge.dad (גְּדַד "to chop" H1414)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render gadad, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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8 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1413.
Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.
Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1413, grouped by book.
Gadad (Strong's H1413) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "cut selves". gadad (gaw-dad') v. 1. to crowd 2. also to gash (as if by pressing into)
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's H1413 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1413 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as troops and gather. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.