Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1406
גָּג
gaggawg
roof
30 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: gâg
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1406is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 14 of 39Old Testament books
- 24spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1406
a roof; by analogy, the top of an altar
The King James renders it: roof (of the house), (house) top (of the house).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
gag is rendered "roof". It stands 30 times in the Hebrew text, across fourteen books.
- Four of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 30:3Overlay with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.
The first use
Overlay with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it.
Exodus 30:3גַּגּ֧וֹ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the roof6
- a roof3
- roof of3
- roofs3
- roofs their2
- the roof towards2
- top its2
- for roof your1
- from roof of1
- own roof his1
- roofs its1
- roofs of1
and 4 more, 30 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 30, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
24 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַגָּֽג׃3
- גָּ֑ג2
- גַּגּ֧וֹ2
- גַּגּ֔וֹת2
- הַגָּ֑ג2
- גַּ֥ג1
- גַּ֣ג1
- גַּ֤ג1
- גָּֽג׃1
- גַּגּוֹ֙1
- גַּגּ֑וֹת1
- גַּגּ֥וֹת1
and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular6HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · feminine plural3HNcfpa
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HNcmsc
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HNcfpc/Sp3mp
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)2HTd/Ncmsa/Sd
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcfpc/Sp3fs
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp2ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
Exodus
two uses
Overlay with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns, and make a molding of gold around it.
- גַּגּ֧וֹgagonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: top its
And he overlaid with pure gold the top and all the sides and horns. Then he made a molding of gold around it.
- גַּגּ֧וֹgagonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: top its
Deuteronomy
one use
If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
- לְגַגֶּ֑ךָlegagekhapreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: for roof your
Joshua
three uses
(But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)
- הַגָּ֑גָהhagagahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the roof towards
- הַגָּֽג׃hagagthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the roof
Before the spies lay down for the night, Rahab went up on the roof
- הַגָּֽג׃hagagthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the roof
Judges
two uses
But there was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and leaders of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.
- גַּ֥גgagnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: roof of
Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.
- הַגָּ֗גhagagthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the roof
1 Samuel
two uses
And after they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof of his house.
- הַגָּֽג׃hagagthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the roof
They got up early in the morning, and just before dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get ready, and I will send you on your way!” So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went outside together.
- הַגָּ֣גָהhagaghthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular + directional ending (“toward”)tagged: the roof towards
2 Samuel
four uses
One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
- גַּ֣גgagnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: roof of
- הַגָּ֑גhagagthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the roof
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
- הַגָּ֑גhagagthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the roof
Now David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gateway by the wall, looked out, and saw a man running alone.
- גַּ֤גgagnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: roof of
2 Kings
two uses
Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
- גַּגּ֔וֹתgagoytnoun · feminine pluraltagged: roofs
He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
- הַגָּג֩hagagthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the roof of
Nehemiah
one use
And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the court of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim.
- גַּגּוֹ֙gagonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: own roof his
Psalms
two uses
I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.
- גָּֽג׃gagnoun · masculine singulartagged: a roof
May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,
- גַּגּ֑וֹתgagotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: roofs
Proverbs
two uses
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
- גָּ֑גgagnoun · masculine singulartagged: a roof
Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
- גָּ֑גgagnoun · masculine singulartagged: a roof
Isaiah
three uses
In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.
- גַּגּוֹתֶ֧יהָgagoteihanoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: roofs its
This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,
- לַגַּגּֽוֹת׃lagagotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: to the roofs
Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
- גַּגּ֔וֹתgagotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: roofs
Jeremiah
three uses
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
- גַּגֹּֽתֵיהֶם֙gagoteihemnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: roofs their
And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.
- גַּגּֽוֹתֵיהֶ֜םgagoteihemnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: roofs their
On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.
- גַּגּ֥וֹתgagotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: roofs of
Ezekiel
two uses
Then he measured the gateway from the roof of one gate chamber to the roof of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits from doorway to doorway.
- מִגַּ֤גmigagpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: from roof of
- לְגַגּ֔וֹlegagopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to roof its
Zephaniah
one use
those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,
- הַגַּגּ֖וֹתhagagotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the roofs
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.