Aramaic

To chop

גְּדַדStrong’s H1414

gedad (ge-dad)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Gedad is the Aramaic word usually translated “cut down”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit: let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches:”

Daniel 4:14 KJV

Meaning

To cut down, hew down

How it's translated

cut down 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Daniel 2

1 book in all.

Related words

To chop (chatav)

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 4:23In contextAnd whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;

Aramaic dictionary

גְּדַד gedad · to chop

to cut down, hew down Aramaic of ga.dad (גָּדַד "to cut" H1413)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “chop” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CHOP, verb transitive

To cut off or separate, by striking with a sharp instrument, either by a single blow or by repeated blows; as, to chop off a head; to chop wood.
To cut into small pieces; to mince; as, to chop meat; to chop straw.
To grand and mince with the teeth; to devour eagerly; with up; as, to chop up an entertainment.
To break or open into chinks or fissures; to crack; to chap. [See Chap.]

All definitions and other forms of “chop”

CHOP, verb intransitive

To buy, or rather to barter, truck, exchange.
To exchange; to put one thing in the place of another; as, to chop and change our friends.
To bandy; to altercate; to return one word or thing for another.

CHOP, verb intransitive

To turn, vary, change or shift suddenly; as in the seamans phrase, the wind chops, or chops about. [The various senses of this verb seem to center in that of thrusting, driving, or a sudden motion or exertion of force.]

CHOP, noun

A piece chopped off; a small piece of meat; as a mutton chop
A crack or cleft.
The chap; the jaw; plural The jaws; the mouth; the sides of a rivers mouth or channel. [See Chap.]

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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.