Strong's Hebrew · H1448
H1448 gᵉdêrâh
גְּדֵרָה
ghed-ay-raw'
wall
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gᵉdêrâh appears 9 times in Scripture, in Numbers, 1 Samuel, Psalms, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Nahum and Zephaniah. 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
inclosure (especially for flocks)
In the King James Version
(sheep-) cote (fold) hedge, wall.
Derivation
feminine of H1447 (גָּדֵר);
Appears 9 times in Scripture
“Then the Gadites and Reubenites approached Moses and said, “We want to build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our little ones.”
“Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.”
“Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.”
“And corresponding to the doors of the chambers that were facing south, there was a door in front of the walkway that was parallel to the wall extending eastward.”
“You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.”
“Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.”
“Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and they built folds for their flocks.”
“Build cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.””
“So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.”
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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).
