Roof
גָּגStrong’s H1406gag
Appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gag is the Hebrew word usually translated “roof”, “roof of” and “roofs”. It appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.”
Meaning
- Roof, top, housetoproof (of house) · top (of altar of incense)
How it's translated
- the roof 6
- roof of 3
- roofs 3
- a roof 3
- top its 2
- the roof towards 2
- roofs their 2
- for roof your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 3
- Isaiah 3
- Jeremiah 3
- Exodus 2
- Joshua 2
- Judges 2
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 37:26And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.
- Deuteronomy 22:8When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
- Joshua 2:6But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
- Joshua 2:8And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;
- Judges 9:51But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top 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 upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
Hebrew dictionary
גָּג gag · roof
1) roof, top, housetop 1a) roof (of house) 1b) top (of altar of incense)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “roof” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ROOF, noun
- The cover or upper part of a house or other building, consisting of rafters covered with boards, shingles or tiles, with a side or sides sloping from the ridge, for the purpose of carrying off the water that falls in rain or snow.
- A vault; an arch; or the interior of a vault; as the roof of heaven.
- The vault of the mouth; the upper part of the mouth; the palate.“If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth” Psalms 137:6
All definitions and other forms of “roof”
ROOF, verb transitive
- To cover with a roof
- To inclose in a house; to shelter.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.