גָּדַר gadar

Hebrew word for “to wall up/off” · Strong’s H1443 · used 10 times in 10 verses

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Meaning

1) to wall up, wall off, close off, build a wall; 1a) (Qal); 1a1) to wall up, shut off; 1a2) masons (participle)

How it is translated

Glosses given for gadar in context, with how often each is used:

• has walled up 3
• masons 2
• will wall up 2
• one who walls up 1
• have walled up 1
• who will build 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Lamentations 3 (2), 2 Kings 12 (1), 2 Kings 22 (1), Job 19 (1), Isaiah 58 (1), Ezekiel 13 (1), Ezekiel 22 (1), Hosea 2 (1), Amos 9 (1)

Forms

• גדר 5
• ולגדרים 2
• וגדרתי 2
• ותגדרו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with gadar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• פֶּרֶץ perets “breach” 4
• נְתִיבָה netivah “path” 4
• גָּדֵר gader “wall” 3
• מַחְצֵב machtsev “hewing” 2
• בָּנָה banah “to build” 3
• קָנָה qanah “to buy” 2
• בַּעַד bead “about/through/for” 2
• אֶבֶן even “stone” 2
• חָזַק chazaq “to strengthen” 2
• עֵץ ets “tree” 2
• עוֹלָם olam “forever” 2
• מָצָא matsa “to find” 2

Key verses

The verses using gadar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 2 Kings 12:12 — And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the…
• 2 Kings 22:6 — Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
• Job 19:8 — He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
• Isaiah 58:12 — And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The…
• Lamentations 3:7 — He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
• Lamentations 3:9 — He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
• Ezekiel 13:5 — Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
• Ezekiel 22:30 — And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.
• Hosea 2:6 — Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
• Amos 9:11 — In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.