To wall up/off
גָּדַרStrong’s H1443gadar (ga-dar)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gadar is the Hebrew word usually translated “has walled up”, “masons” and “wall up”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“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 house to repair it.”
Meaning
- To wall up, wall off, close off, build a wall(Qal)
How it's translated
- he has walled up 3
- and to the masons 2
- and i will wall up 2
- walls up 1
- and you have walled up 1
- build 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 2
- Lamentations 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Job 1
- Isaiah 1
- Hosea 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 22:6Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
- Job 19:8He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
- Isaiah 58:12And 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 repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
- Lamentations 3:7He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
- Lamentations 3:9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
- Ezekiel 13:5Ye 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.
Hebrew dictionary
גָּדַר gadar · to wall up/off
1) to wall up, wall off, close off, build a wall 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to wall up, shut off 1a2) masons (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “build” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BUILD, verb intransitive
bild. To exercise the art, or practice the business of building.
- To construct, rest or depend on as a foundation; as, to build on the opinions of others.
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.