Wall
גֶּדֶרStrong’s H1447geder (ge-der)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Geder is the Hebrew word usually translated “wall”, “fence” and “walls its”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“But the angel of the LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.”
Meaning
- Wall, fence
How it's translated
- a wall 5
- and a wall 1
- a fence 1
- walls its 1
- wall its 1
- and wall 1
- wall her 1
- walls your 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
- Psalms 2
- Numbers 1
- Ezra 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
- Isaiah 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Ezra 9:9For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
- Psalms 62:3How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
- Psalms 80:12Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
- Ecclesiastes 10:8He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
- Isaiah 5:5And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
- 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
גֶּדֶר geder · wall
wall, fence Another spelling of ga.der (גָּדֵר "wall" H1447)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wall” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WALL, noun
[Latin, stake, post, probably originally a fence of stakes, a palisade or stockade; the first rude fortification of uncivilized men.]
- A work or structure of stone, brick or other materials, raised to some highth, and intended for a defense or security.
- Walls, in the plural, is used for fortifications in general; works for defense.
- A defense; means of security or protection. 1 Samuel 25:16
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.