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Hebrew verb · H1438

גָּדַע

gadagaw-dah'

to cut down/off

22 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: gâdaʻ

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1438is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 21
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1438

to fell a tree; generally, to destroy anything

The King James renders it: cut (asunder, in sunder, down, off), hew down.

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

gada is rendered "to cut down/off". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Five of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 7:5Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-one different ways.

The first use

Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.

Deuteronomy 7:5תְּגַדֵּע֔וּן

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in eleven of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and I cut up2
  • he cut down2
  • it has been cut off2
  • you will cut down2
  • and he cut down1
  • and I will cut off1
  • and it will be cut down1
  • and they cut down1
  • and they will be cut down1
  • and they will be cut off1
  • cut down1
  • he cuts down1

and 6 more, 22 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.

גָּדוֹלgadolgreat: largeUses526
גָּדַלgadalto magnifyUses117
גָּדִיGadiGadUses16
גָּדֵרgaderwallUses12
גָּדַרgadarto wall up/offUses10
גָּדַדgadadto cutUses8
גָּדַףgadaphto blasphemeUses7
גָּדָהgadahbankUses4
גָּדֵלgadelgrowingUses4
גָּדִישׁgadishstackUses4
גָּדgadfortuneUses1

The words it stands beside

All 22, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

21 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

  • וְנִגְדְּעוּ֙2
  • אֲגַדֵּ֑עַ1
  • אֲגַדֵּֽעַ׃1
  • גְּדוּעִ֔ים1
  • גִּדֵּ֑עַ1
  • גִּדַּ֖ע1
  • גָּדַ֣ע1
  • גִּדֵּֽעַ׃1
  • גֻּדָּ֔עוּ1
  • וָאֶגְדַּ֖ע1
  • וָֽאֶגְדַּע֙1
  • וְגָֽדַעְתִּי֙1

and 9 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVpp3ms
  • Hc/VNq3cp2Hc/VNq3cp
  • Hc/Vqw1cs2Hc/Vqw1cs
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVNp3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular2HVpi1cs
  • verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nun2HVpi2mp/Sn
  • Hc/VNq3fs1Hc/VNq3fs
  • Hc/Vpw3mp1Hc/Vpw3mp
  • Hc/Vpw3ms1Hc/Vpw3ms
  • Hc/Vqq1cs1Hc/Vqq1cs
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVNp2ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVNp3fs

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.

    Deuteronomy 7:5

    • תְּגַדֵּע֔וּןtegadeunverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will cut down
  • Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

    Deuteronomy 12:3

    • תְּגַדֵּע֑וּןtegadeunverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will cut down

Judges

one use
  • And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.

    Judges 21:6

    • נִגְדַּ֥עnigda'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been cut off

1 Samuel

one use
  • Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no older man will be left in your house.

    1 Samuel 2:31

    • וְגָֽדַעְתִּי֙vegada'tiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will cut off

2 Chronicles

four uses
  • He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.

    2 Chronicles 14:3

    • וַיְגַדַּ֖עvaygada'Hc/Vpw3mstagged: and he cut down
  • When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.

    2 Chronicles 31:1

    • וַיְגַדְּע֣וּvaygadeuHc/Vpw3mptagged: and they cut down
  • Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

    2 Chronicles 34:4

    • גִּדֵּ֑עַgidea'verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he cut down
  • He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

    2 Chronicles 34:7

    • גִּדַּ֖עgida'verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he cut down

Psalms

two uses
  • “All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”

    Psalms 75:10

    • אֲגַדֵּ֑עַʾagadea'verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will cut off
  • For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

    Psalms 107:16

    • גִּדֵּֽעַ׃gidea'verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he cuts down

Isaiah

five uses
  • “The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”

    Isaiah 9:10

    • גֻּדָּ֔עוּgudauverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been cut down
  • Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.

    Isaiah 10:33

    • גְּדוּעִ֔יםgeduimverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: cut down
  • How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

    Isaiah 14:12

    • נִגְדַּ֣עְתָּnigda'taverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have been cut down
  • In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

    Isaiah 22:25

    • וְנִגְדְּעָ֣הvenigdeahHc/VNq3fstagged: and it will be cut down
  • “I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

    Isaiah 45:2

    • אֲגַדֵּֽעַ׃ʾagadea'verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will cut through

Jeremiah

two uses
  • The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken,” declares the LORD.

    Jeremiah 48:25

    • נִגְדְּעָה֙nigdeahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be cut off
  • How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

    Jeremiah 50:23

    • נִגְדַּע֙nigda'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been cut off

Lamentations

one use
  • In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.

    Lamentations 2:3

    • גָּדַ֣עgada'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has cut off

Ezekiel

one use
  • Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.

    Ezekiel 6:6

    • וְנִגְדְּעוּ֙venigdeuHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will be cut down

Amos

one use
  • On the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.

    Amos 3:14

    • וְנִגְדְּעוּ֙venigdeuHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will be cut off

Zechariah

two uses
  • Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.

    Zechariah 11:10

    • וָאֶגְדַּ֖עvaegda'Hc/Vqw1cstagged: and I cut up
  • Then I cut in two my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

    Zechariah 11:14

    • וָֽאֶגְדַּע֙vaegda'Hc/Vqw1cstagged: and I cut up

The letters

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.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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