Stack
גָּדִישׁStrong’s H1430gadish (ga-dish)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gadish is the Hebrew word usually translated “heap of sheaves”, “from heap of sheaves” and “tomb”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.”
Meaning
- Heap, stack, pile
- Tomb
How it's translated
- a heap of sheaves 2
- from heap of sheaves 1
- a tomb 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
- Exodus 1
- Judges 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 15:5And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
- Job 5:26Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
- Job 21:32Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
Hebrew dictionary
גָּדִישׁ gadish · stack
heap, stack, pile
גָּדִישׁ gadish · tomb
tomb
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stack” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STACK, noun
- A large conical pile of hay, grain or straw, sometimes covered with thatch.
- A number of funnels or chimneys standing together.
All definitions and other forms of “stack”
STACK, verb transitive
- To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay or grain.
- In England, to pile wood, poles, etc.
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.