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2 Kings 12:13

“Howbeit there were not made for the house of the Lord bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the Lord:” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

גָּדַרgâdar · gaw-dar'
H1443 · Hebrew
Definition
to wall in or around
Derivation
a primitive root;
KJV renderings
close up, fence up, hedge, inclose, make up (a wall), mason, repairer.
Grammar
  • וְ — conjunction
  • לַ — preposition with definite article
  • גֹּֽדְרִים֙ — verb Qal, active participle, masculine, plural, absolute
Code HC/Rd/Vqrmpa
Usage
Occurs 10 times in the Hebrew Bible.2 Kings 22:6Job 19:8Isaiah 58:12Lamentations 3:7Lamentations 3:9

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read גָּדַר here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.