Gada means “in sunder” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1438 — heautou (“you”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1438 גָּדַע (gada`) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. gada` (gaw-dah') v. 1. to fell a tree 2. (generally) to destroy anything It has 22 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include cut, destroy, destroyed, and down. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
gada` (gaw-dah') v. 1. to fell a tree 2. (generally) to destroy anything [a primitive root] KJV: cut (asunder, in sunder, down, off), hew down.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1438. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to cut down/off
Usage: 1) to cut, hew, chop, cut down, hew down, hew off, cut off, cut in two, shave off 1a) (Qal) to hew, chop in two 1b) (Niphal) to be chopped off, be hewn off 1c) (Piel) to cut off or down in two, hew off or down in two 1d) (Pual) to chop down, hew down
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render gada`, 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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22 indexed usages in Old Testament.
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
First 22 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1438.
But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.
For he took away the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and brake down the images, and cut down the groves:
Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the LORD.
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.
And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1438, grouped by book.
Gada (Strong's H1438) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "in sunder". gada` (gaw-dah') v. 1. to fell a tree 2. (generally) to destroy anything
This page currently indexes 22 linked usages for Strong's H1438 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1438 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as cut, destroy, destroyed, and down. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.