Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H1406: גָּג (gâg) Definition

Strong's number
H1406
Lemma
גָּג
Transliteration
gâg
Pronunciation
gawg
Strong's definition
a roof; by analogy, the top of an altar roof (of the house), (house) top (of the house). probably by reduplication from H1342 (גָּאָה);

27 instances of the word גָּג gâg (H1406)


  • Judges 16:27 - Now the house was full of men and women and all the lords of the Philistines were there and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women that beheld made sport while Samson

  • Nehemiah 8:16 - went forth So the people and brought them and made themselves booths every one upon the roof of his house and in the courts and in the courts of the house of God and in the street gate of the water and in the street gate of Ephraim

  • Proverbs 21:9 - It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop woman than with a brawling house in a wide

  • Proverbs 25:24 - It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop woman house and in a wide

  • Psalms 102:7 - I watch and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top

  • Psalms 129:6 - Let them be as the grass upon the housetops afore it groweth up which withereth

  • Zephaniah 1:5 - And them that worship upon the housetops the host of heaven And them that worship and that swear by the LORD and that swear