גָּג
gag
roof
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "gag" (H1406) refers to a "roof". It is a term from the semantic domain of "Construction & Crafts", indicating its association with architecture and building. This word is used 30 times in the Bible, suggesting its significance within the Hebrew scriptures. The repeated use of "gag" implies that the concept of a roof was not only essential for shelter but also a fundamental aspect of daily life and infrastructure in ancient Israelite society. As the meaning of "gag" is straightforward, it primarily serves to denote the physical component of a structure, rather than a metaphorical or abstract idea. Its significance lies in its practical application and importance to the practical aspects of life in ancient Israel.
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Occurrences in Scripture
30 total occurrences across the text
So the people went out, and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters, everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate.
Psalms 102:7I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.
Psalms 129:6Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
Proverbs 21:9It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
Proverbs 25:24It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.
Isaiah 15:3In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.
Isaiah 22:1The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?
Isaiah 37:27Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.
Jeremiah 19:13The houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’ ”
Jeremiah 32:29The Chaldeans, who fight against this city, will come and set this city on fire, and burn it with the houses on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
Jeremiah 48:38On all the housetops of Moab, and in its streets, there is lamentation everywhere; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which no one delights,” says Yahweh.
Ezekiel 40:13He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits, door against door.
Ezekiel 40:13He measured the gate from the roof of the one lodge to the roof of the other, a width of twenty-five cubits, door against door.
Zephaniah 1:5those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by Yahweh and also swear by Malcam,
Exodus 30:3You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides around it, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding around it.
Exodus 37:26He overlaid it with pure gold: its top, its sides around it, and its horns. He made a gold molding around it.
Deuteronomy 22:8When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.
Joshua 2:6But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.
Joshua 2:6But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.
Joshua 2:8Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof.
Judges 9:51But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city fled there, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.
Judges 16:27Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.
1 Samuel 9:25When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.
1 Samuel 9:26They arose early; and about daybreak, Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, “Get up, that I may send you away.” Saul arose, and they both went outside, he and Samuel, together.
2 Samuel 11:2At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
2 Samuel 11:2At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
2 Samuel 16:22So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Samuel 18:24Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.
2 Kings 19:26Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.
2 Kings 23:12The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.