Strong’s H1409 · Hebrew
גָּד
gâd
gawd
Definition
fortune
Etymology
from H1464 (גּוּד) (in the sense of distributing);
Where the KJV renders it
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Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.
What the first audience heard
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