Strong's Hebrew · H1447
H1447 gâdêr
גָּדֵר
gaw-dare'
wall
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gâdêr appears 12 times in Scripture, including Numbers 22:24 and Ezra 9:9. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
a circumvallation; by implication, an inclosure
In the King James Version
fence, hedge, wall.
Derivation
from H1443 (גָּדַר);
Appears 12 times in Scripture
“How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?”
“He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.”
“You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD.”
“An outer wall in front of the chambers was fifty cubits long and ran parallel to the chambers and the outer court.”
“Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.”
“Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but He has extended to us grace in the sight of the kings of Persia, giving us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and giving us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.”
“Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?”
“I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.”
“Then the angel of the LORD stood in a narrow passage between two vineyards, with walls on either side.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
